Mysterious bottle shared by Meeki - proving to be a dry stout by Rotterdam's Kaapse, whom I trust with dear life when it comes to solid craft beer... Medium thick, pale yellow-beige, dot-lacing, stable head on a hazy dark chocolate brown robe, approaching blackish but still with clear mahogany highlights. Aroma oddly 'oud bruin'-like, wet caramel, forest floor, old chocolate bars, sweaty note, passionfruit, moldy beech nuts, black tea, rotten wooden logs, wild brambleberries, old port wine. Tart onset, lots of dark fruitiness in the way of blackberries, elderberries and prunes, restrained in sweetness though with a dimly but persistently and somewhat 'dirty' sour undertone, medium carbonated with supple body. This 'dirty' tartness continues round a brown-bready, bit hazelnutty core and ongoing dark fruitiness; moldy wood- and dead tree leaf-like elements show up towards the end, adding to a very earthy, dirty finish. Allegedly aged on Speyside whisky barrels, but neither myself nor the others (including a whisky connoisseur) could find any trace of that. Something of a happy accident, I think: interesting as a sour stout of sorts, but probably infected against the brewers' will - this is more akin to a dark sour than to a dry stout. Weird, but nowhere unpleasant.

From Backlog. Taster, from Bottle, at Mikkeller Færgekroen. Black with some beige head. Roasted Malts, coffee, whisky, thin.