6.6

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

440ml can from Left Field Beer, Solihull. Poured a clear dark brown colour with a big lasting frothy tan head. The aroma is is big raspberry, light honey. The flavour is moderate sour, with smooth, somewhat rich, tart raspberry, slightly vinous, light sweet honey palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation. A stout? If I were wearing a blindfold I’d say this was a tart fruit sour. The raspberry totally dominated. There’s no room for anything else. There isn’t anything balanced about the addition of raspberries as noted in the commercial description! It’s beers like this that make me want to drink macro lagers once again for a fraction of the price I paid for this. If I’d wanted a tart fruit beer that’s what I would have ordered. Disappointing.

7

keg at the blue blazer ...dark black ..dark earthy chocolate roast malts nose ...soft sweet woody chocolate ..dark malts ..some red wine ..Light brett tones ..ohh it's px..not getting that ..but getting a little rasp

7.6

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

Can from the Low Cost Beer online shop. Pours black with a thin tan head. Aromas of raspberry, chocolate, honey, dark sugar. Taste has roasty malt, dark sugar, lactose and dark sugar. Boozy finish.

8.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

Cask (gravity) at Smithfield, Derby. Pours almost black with no head whatsoever. There’s nuts, oats and honey in the aroma, plus traces of summer fruits. In the mouth, raspberries are the first to hit the taste buds, quickly followed by alcoholic strength. It is slightly sweet with a creamy texture. Other flavours slowly reveal themselves – roasted malts, molasses, and hints of honey and oats. The finish is dry and rather boozy. This is simply wonderful !

6.8

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

Can shared at the craft beer junction bermondsey tasting. A dark mahogany brown coloured pour with a lasting loose beige head. Aroma is semi sweet, brown sugars, brown bread, jammy raspberry jam, raspberry ripple,. Flavour is composed of semi sweet. Brown sugars, light tang, raspberry, yogurty funk, porridge.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask @ Victorian Craft Beer Cafe, Halifax. One of their Back In Black Beer Festival beers. Cloudy dark reddish-brown with a light-brown frothy head. Has a light dark-malty aroma, but is sweet in taste, has jam qualities in this respect and has a somewhat sticky-sweet texture for it.

7.6

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

Can at home. Pours deep brown, nose is roasted, caramel, some fruit, baby sick, taste is tart berries, roasted,.chocolate, vanilla.

8

Very nice.