29th June 2024
Panda thanks to Cloin. Clear deep amber brown beer, decent bubbly tan head. Very light and slightly thin palate for the style. It's semi dry and has reasonable fine carbonation. Thinnish dark malts, a reasonable dark malt creamy sweetness, some mild chocolate. The barrelling is everything to this brew. Tastes like a fruity Irish whiskey but who knows. A whiskey malty sweetness on the back end along with mild boozy spice. Something tells me this should be a candidate for the clunker category but it charms and seduces in ways I'm not even sure about. All I can say is a like it despite myself!

Can at home, from Craft Beer Central.ie, 29/05/24. Lighter shade of black topped with a big old dirty tan head that stays for the show. Nose is old skool BA impy, dark chocolate shavings, bourbon nose pinch, spice, molasses, fruit cake mix, dates, toasted brown sugars. Taste comprises dark chocolate, charr, dark malts, roasted bite, coffee, bourbon soaked oak, molasses, toffee, liquorice chew. Medium bodied with bite, fine to light prickly carbonation, semi drying close with a balanced spike of alcohol. Fun old skool impy ... you don't get many like this today not at all subtle ... big ballsy and bourbonic ... not a sweet adjunct rush.

Brownish black with a medium tan head. Aroma of bourbon malt. Flavour is sweet malt, cream cake, fruit booze on a soft finish.