(Can) Pours opaque very dark brown with tiny tan head. Good aroma with plenty of banana with hints of maple and cake mixture. Full body with good bright carbonation. Enjoyable and unusual taste starting sweet and ending with burnt bitterness. The start has toffee, maple and banana which linger throughout the palate. There is a slowly developing bitterness that kicks in at the end. It provides a good contrast to the sweetness but is just a bit too harsh, and it’s not a hoppy bitterness, more very strong coffee or burnt sugar, maybe soy sauce (autolysis?). Unusual, enjoyable but a bit harsh in the finish.

Aromas of maple, lemon, sweet biscuit and Worcestershire sauce. The hops are surprisingly strong in the mouth, and the other flavours nicely balanced. Really enjoying this one (I do wonder if the slight weird taste in my mouth today accounts for the Worcestershire taste!).