Bottle at Mes Tasting. Dark brown pour with a few bubbles for a head. Roasty aroma with some dark sugars. Lightly sour malts, mild sweetness, faint coffee. Light bodied and a bit flat. More mild sour malts and subtle roast to finish. Not too good.

Bottle 500ml.Clear dark red brown color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, wheat, cold coffee, malt, light smoke, light licorice. Flavor is moderate sweet, light acidic and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration, coal, overriped fruit, berries, licorice notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20110102]

Cask gravity at Colchester BF 2011. Darkish almost black. No real head. Some choc on aroma. Its got some sour dark cherry to it. Some cereal on the aroma. Its decent and has some interesting dark fruit sourness. Its a decent beer.

21st December 2010
Bottle from Pigs Ear (Cheers to Keen and Rob). Opaque black brown beer. No head. Zero carbonation otherwise a neutral palate. Tangy dark malt leading to some nice fruitiness, orange and traces of lemon and strawberry. Interesting beer and could have been in the high 3s with some condition on it!