8.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle thanks to Stuu666. Appearance - deep brown and opaque. Thin off-white head. Nose - big dark chocolate note, with raisins going into prunes in Armagnac. Taste - dark chocolate, very rich, raisin and prunes. Burnt wood and booze. Palate - full bodied, creamy texture, dry woody and boozy finish. Overall - good.

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at ash's. Pours deep brown, nose is roasted, nutty, treacle, taste is chocolate, roasted, treacle, light bitterness.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle thanks to Stuu666. Pours clear dark brown with a thin beige head. Aromas of chocolate and toffee, light wood. Taste is more of the same. Chocolate linger.

8

bottle at home .. dark brown ...thin tan lacing ...soft earthy chocolate roast malts nose soft sweets sticky bonfire chocolate toffee ..rich sweet roast

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

330ml bottle; bottled Apr 2021; BB Jun 2028. Pours a very dark brown with a huge beige head quickly dissipating to a normal level. Aroma of dark malts, dried fruits, chocolate, mild spice/herb. Taste is rich, dark malts, dried fruits, caramel, treacle, nutty, chocolate, warming booze throughout. Medium bodied. Tastes a lot stronger than 10% but it's a bloody good brown ale nonetheless. 2 and a half years on it... should've got another bottle to have in a few years time.

7.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7

Bottle from the House of Trembling Madness; my first impy brown. Dark brown with a barely-there beige head and a light fizz. Boozy chocolate aroma. Alcohol to the fore on tasting too, with more chocolate, wood toffee and a bit of Dundee cake. Good full body. Big and boozy - a little one-dimensional maybe, but enjoyable nevertheless.

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Panda at home, thanks to Fergus, 29/05/23. Light black with a fast escaping khaki head. Nose is light medicinal tones, dark malts, dried fruit rinds, spice, herb, dates, toffee. Taste comprises chocolate shavings, light barrel, molasses, toffee, fruit cake mix, nutty, light booze. Medium plus bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a balanced spike of alcohol. Solid offering.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle at home picked up from HOTM. A clear chestnut brown coloured pour with a lively loose khaki head. Aroma is semi sweetm woody roast, fruit cake, light toast, treacle. light booze. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, layered malts, treacel ,woody roast, burnt cake ends, sweet woody toffee, Warming alcohol. Nice authentic traditional roast. Palate is semi sweet, full bodied, rounded, moderate carbonation.

7.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle ordered from A Hoppy Place, Windsor. Aroma combines booze, a dark ganache and liquorice. Dark. Consumes the light. Thin foamy beige head. Medium bitter. But the booze is up front. Dark chocolate, coffee and liquorice. An smoky almost salt tinged streak. As I drink more caramel begins to cone through. But, yeah, it's boozy. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Sticky. Fizzy carbonation. Long astringent finish. Enjoyable, although it's big Dark and boozy. The Brown Ale element is an afterthought to an extent