500ml bottle as part of a delivery from the brewery and drunk at home. Mid- to dark brown, translucent with a small uneven beige head. The nose gives chocolate malt, slate, the tiniest note of stone fruit. Excellent balanced taste, creamy and bittersweet with a tinge of sourness of the finish. I’m getting chocolate and blackberry. Medium body, low carbonation. Simple and moreish.

Bottle ordered from the brewery. Aroma combines malty chocolate with light charcoal. Dark - cola brown when held up to the light. Foamy off-white head soon develops some bald spots. Initial fruit and berries followed by a sour edge as the berries take prominence, and then moves into charcoal and dark chocolate bitterness. A sweet vinous element and creamy hints are in there dodging about. Seems more punchy than 5.2%. Heavy bodied. Develops molasses as it warms up. Creamy. Flat-average carbonation. Long dry astringent finish. Decent stiff... there's some creaminess and sweetness but it doesn't pill its punches.