Little Beer Little Smooth - Iced Range #1

Bottle from Inn At Home, Guildford. An earthy coffee, chocolate and liquorice aroma. The bottle cap really blew off when I opened It's followed by a slow release of foam - unsurprisingly this resulted in a large foamy head. Otherwise It's jet black. Very bitter. There's some coffee and berries in there but over this It's just really tart and quinine. Boozy aftertaste. Thick bodied. Oily. Fizzy carbonation. Relatively abrupt finish, other than the aftertaste and astringentness. Ithough that the original Sweet Stout was basic, benefiting from its bitterness . This remains basic but the iced element amps up the bitterness so It's just overpowering. This one of the Iced Range just doesn't work for me.