Bottle from Garson Farm, West End. Aroma certainly has vanilla mixed in with creamy coffee. Dark with a red tint. Bubbly off-white head soon retreats to the rim. There's a bitter espresso and charcoal core. Sour berry and citrus edge. And then the vanilla throughout. However it's the sourness that becomes prominent. Light-medium bodied. A thin creaminess. Soft-fizzy and very lively carbonation. Long astringent finish. Nice enough but feels basic.

Bottle from Garsons, Esher, Surrey. A dark brown/black coloured pour with a thin beige head which doesn't hang about very long. Nice rich sweet, vanilla, chocolate aroma. Tastes similar but quite thin and lacking complexity. Still a pleasant enough easy drinking vanilla milk stout from Surrey.