Plum, Sloe, Damson & Peat

Bottle from the source. Pours somewhat murky orange-ish with off white foam. Aroma: peat, sour stone fruits, oak. Taste: peat dominates, iodine/medicinal, some cider barrel vibes, lighter notes of stone fruits in the background, mild funk. Quite complex. And it's super sharp, so much so that I couldn't manage to dome it alone. Medium body with foamy carbonation.

Bottle sample at a tasting at Porter & Sons. Cloudy plum orange. Lots of peat, some funk, fruitiness, sour and smoky, lemony, a bit acidic in the throat.

Hapu, turbane, joodine, ploomine, marjane, nisune, vesine. Huvitav.

Bottle split at the Tickombe 30K last tasting before lockdown 2, thanks to the Wingman 01/11/20. Murky reddish orange with a decent off white cap. Nose is tarte fruit esters, smoked malts, light bonfire, mushed up berries. Taste comprises big smoked elements, medicinal aspects, stale damson jam, berry fruits, earthy, wooded notes, light funk. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close with a soured fruit edge but overtaken by the smoke. Quite a complex sour but rather dominated by the peat aspects ... glad to have shared this one three ways ... not one I'd have been keen on taking down solo in 750 format !

Bottle. shared at Colin's pre lockdown 30k tasting. A light hazed golden orange coloured. Aroma is tarmac rubber clutch, bitter berry, green cherry, tart, green berry plastic sour.

Bottle, by way of a trade. That’ll probably end now that sales are going in house soon. Thankfully. Lightly hazy, dusky pink. Slimmest ring of white. Nose is almost all peat and Deep Heat. Touch of tart fruit. Plum and damson comes through as the beer warms. But the peat intensifies, too. Taste is dry and tart, with just a hint of savoury and smoky sweetness. Light to medium body. Foamy carbonation. Lightly acidic. Tart and smoky on the finish. I’m betting this might be quite divisive. It’s not for me though.