Can shared in London - thanks to Male Ales. Pours rich brown with a frothy, thick tan head. Good snout, some notes of chocolate, grapes and pine. Medium sweet flavor, lots of charred malts, rich cocoa, pine, earth, ripe orange. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Nicely balanced to finish with more chocolate, grape, orange, some pith, burnt wood, earth. Solid.

26th July 2014
Opaque dark brown beer, small pale tan head. Palate is light and airy. modest fine carbonation. No dark malt character here, despite the colour. Little rye spice in the modestly creamy malt. Hops are a nicely balanced mix of pine, mellow skunk and ripe dark orange. Smooth semi dry finish. Spicy mint aftertaste. Tasty and pretty easy drinking.

Bottle. Pours quite dark brown/black with a medium beige head that dissipates quickly but leaves nice residual lacing. Aroma is citrus and grapefruit forward, with some roasted malt notes in the background. Flavor is about the same, plus some pine resin and molasses.The rye presents as a bit of a bite starting mid swallow and propagating to the finish. This is a pretty nice beer, but it seems quite a bit better in bottle than I remember from my sample at the tasting room.

Draft @the brewery. Pours a dark ruby brown color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity roasted hoppy piney licorice aroma. Fruity malty roasted piney hoppy bitter flavor. Has a fruity malty piney hoppy licorice finish.