Cask at the Queens Head. Pours very dark brown with a small head. Aroma is chocolate, a little coffee and roast. Taste has roast, liquorice and some chocolate.

Black colored, small+ tan creamy head. Chocolate, roasted malt, biscuit, medium sweet, light dark fruit, herbal and earthy moderate hops, medium bitterness, rather lasting and present for a stout. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, oily. Nice.

Handpull cask at Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, Nottingham. Dark brown, bordering on black. A tiny khaki head on top. Grassy peaty notes on the nose with a touch of liquorice. There's ample bitterness in the taste with a bitter/sour finish. Full body. Wonderful stuff.

Cask (gravity) @ Nottingham Robin Hood Beer Festival (2014), Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 6EL. [ As Lincoln Green Quarterstaff ].Clear dark brown color with a average to large, open and frothy - fizzy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, light burnt. Flavor is moderate sweet with a long duration, roasted, burnt, dark roasted, blackcurrant - fruity notes. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20141010]

Cask (Nottingham Beer Festival 2014) - Black in colour. Roasted malt and liquorice in the aroma. Roasted malt, cocoa and blackcurrant can be detected in the taste. Rather tasty.