(swing top bottle, with thanks to Quack-Duck) Deep brown, almost black colour with a beige medium-sized foamy head. Slightly sugary sweet and roasted malty aroma with distinctive notes of dark and milk-chocolate, accompanied by a herbal and ethereally touch. Balanced roasty bitter and sweet flavour, medium to light bodied with a pleasantly calm carbonation. Roasty malty taste with notes of chocolate, liquorice and herbal accents; sweet and roasty bitter, quite balanced and lasting finish. A pleasure; like a bottom-fermented Sweet Stout. 16.III.11

Bottle swing top 50cl @ Home.[ Trade with Maria ]. Clear dark red brown color with a large, frothy, good lancing, mostly to fully lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, roasted, burnt, chocolate, coffee - mocca. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a long to average duration. Bitternes is malt burnt - chocolate / coffee bitter. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. (080608)

Draught. Sweet, spicy, roasted aroma. Cloudy dark brown colour. Small head. Roasted flavour, nicely balanced with sweetness. 7 4 7 4 17

Bottle, 5.5%. Sweetish and roasted aroma. The flavour is mildly roasted with a little sweetness. Malty dark bread notes. Late bitterness, good and cleansing. 7 3 7 3 17

Bottle at London Gathering Nov 05. I am happy to go completely against the grain. This is without doubt the worst smelling beer I have ever had. I have never rated a beer with a 1 for aroma (I don’t think so anyway) until now. Very dark brown beer with thin beige head. Farty fireworks aroma. Bit sour. Frankly not very nice. And that aroma..... Have entered a default score here, but my original score was 1.1