6.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Big bottle from deciccos. Dark pour white head. Mostly berries and wooden aroma. Moderate mouth feel with sour cranberries and chocolates.

7

Clear drk blk bod thin tan head. Choc fruit treacle arma. Berry, choc, fruit toffee flav. Med bod low carb. 7/4/7/3/13 3.4

7.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

750 ml bottle into pint glass; bottled on 9/6/2013, 6% ABV listed. Pours crystal clear very dark reddish brown color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense light khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Light spotty foamy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of chocolate, cocoa, toast, cranberry, brown bread, light roast, raisin, plum, fig, herbal, and toast/yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/bready malt, cranberry, and fruity/earthy yeast ester notes; with decent strength. Taste of chocolate, cocoa, cranberry, toast, brown bread, light roast, raisin, plum, fig, herbal, and toast/yeast earthiness. Light fruity tartness/earthy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of chocolate, cocoa, cranberry, toast, brown bread, light roast, raisin, plum, fig, herbal, and toast/yeast earthiness on the finish fora short bit. Nice complexity and balance of dark/bready malt, cranberry, and fruity/earthy yeast flavors; with solid robustness and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, crisp, and lightly creamy/acidic mouthfeel that is good. Alcohol is well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is a very solid fruited stout. Good balance and complexity of dark/bready malt, cranberry, and fruity/earthy yeast flavors; and very smooth and crisp to drink. I was expecting much more robustness from malt flavors for a 6% stout; but it was an enjoyable offering.

5.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Tap at Hadanka, Helsinki. Originally rated 09122011. Colour is reddish brown with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Berries, cherries, sweetness, chocolate and malts.

7.3

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draft. Berry and caramel malt aroma. Black with moderate head. Sweet tart cranberry and light chocolate malt flavor. Body on the light side. Nice.

5

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Draught @ Market Porter, 9 Stoney Street, Southwark, London, Greater London, England SE1 9AA.Clear dark red browm almost purple colour with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, chocolate, craneberry. Initial flavor is moderate sweet, light light acidic and light bitter, finish flavor is moderate sweet, light light acidic and moderate bitter with a average to long duration, dark malt, dark chocolate, artificial craneberry sweet. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is fizzy. [20111229]

6.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Draught (backlog). Deep reddish brown colour with a small off-white fluffy head. Aroma is sour berries, some sweet malts, mild roast and liquorice. Flavour is berries, roasted malts, some toffee, liquorice and mild ashes. Nice sour edge, which actually reminds a bit of infected sourness, but still not that harsh.

4

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Draft at Taps Beer Bar, Kuala Lumpur. Very dark mahogany pour. Light head with some lacing. Didn't get much from the aroma but didn't expect to either. The strange thing for me with this beer is that I like cranberries and I like some sourness in my ales, but this beer is sour and packed full of cranberry flavours. The cranberry is just way too overpowering for me. If I have fruit in my beer I like the flavour to be subtle, but with this beer it hit me right in the face. I had hoped the beer might grow on me as I moved further down the glass, but it didn't. I'll stick with Cranberry juice from Tesco instead of in my Meantime stouts in future! ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

6.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

On tap at Schouskjelleren, Oslo. ABV was said to be 4.7%. Black colour, moderate beige head, nice lacing. Pleasant aroma of cranberries, hints of chocolate and mild coffee in the background. Fruity and moderately acidic flavour, cranberries of course, roasty notes (mild coffee). Fairly refreshing.

6.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draft @ Old Brewery, Greenwich SE10. Pours a black color with a small tan head. Has a roasted malty chocolate and berry aroma. Fruity roasted malty chocolate flavor with slightly tart cranberry hints. Roasted malty fruity tart cranberry finish with hints of chocolate.