Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle ordered from Beer Shop HQ, St Albans. Aroma is low key dark dough and dried fruit with a boozy edge. Opaque dark brown. Thick fluffy foamy off-white head. Light-medium sweet dough. Dark fruit. Molasses. However the booze is then what is prominent. Medium bodied. Slick. Soft-fizzy carbonation. Long very astringent finish. The barrel-aging takes the lead and it ends up very bitter and astringent but with a redeeming underlying sweetnes..