Bottle 22fl.oz. @ home on the terrace.Clear dark brown colour with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, oak, light sweet chocolate - vanilla beans. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, vanilla beans, oak, dry, candy - caramel, sweet. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120712]

Bottle at Craft Beer Co Brighton. It pours cloudy deep mahogany, with a thin off-white head. The nose is chocolate, vanilla, toasted coconut, farmyard, spice, oak and fruit cake. The taste is caramel, chocolate, vanilla, spice, wood, toast, quite sweet, dark fruit, roasted malt, meatiness and farmyard, with a dry, slightly bitter finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. Decent stuff.

Bottle bought at Ølbutikken in June 2012. Amber/brownish with a medium tan head. Aroma and taste of chocolate, vanilla, dark fruit, some wood and spices. Also roasted malt. Descent stuff.

Bomber bought @ Bierkompass.de. Pours dark wooden brown with a frothy and creamy brownish white head that is rather quick to dissipate while leaving some thick lacing on the glass. Smell is sweet and malty with cookie dough, wood, candi sugar, vanilla, oatmeal cookies, plums, raisins, resin, orange zest, cereal, maple syrup and sweet dark bread. Taste is sweet, tiny bitter and tiny sour with sweet dark bread, maple syrup, wood, banana bread, vanilla, orange zest, resin, cookie dough, oatmeal, cereal, burnt caramel, yeasty esters, . Mouthfeel is round and medium bodied. Finish is sweet and very tiny bitter with wood, cereal, orange zest, maple syrup, resin, prunes and vanilla. 

Bottle thanks to blutt59. Pours with a hazed bronze hued body with a medium sized tan head that stuck around for a bit. Aromas are of prunes, plums, candied dark fruits, clove, spicy phenols, lightly herbal, medium vanillin. Flavors are of vanilla, marzipan, banana esters, spicy phenols, nutty, a bit grainy, malty, cereal. Somewhat bitter or tannic for what I was expecting. Medium to lively bubbles, a touch sweet but finish dry.

Bottle. Pours midnight brown with off white head. Nose/taste of vanilla beans, spiced cocoa, caramel, dark fruit, raisin and wood chips. Sweet mouth feel finishes with dry spices. Odd, but gets a bit smoother/more balanced as it warms. Medium body.

Served on draft at the brewery. Pours a dark hazy brown color with a medium creamy tan head. Decent head retention. Aroma of tart fruits, herbal hop finish. The taste is toffee malts, toastiness, plums, stone fruits, vanilla and a hoppy finish. Medium bodied. Nice.