500ml bottle. Pours black with a medium head. Aroma is smoked ham and Coke. Taste has mild smoked ham throughout with some ashy notes. Coke on the aftertaste.

Cask at the Euston Tap, London. Pours clear, dark red-brown with a foamy, light tan foam head. Holds a lovely aroma of dirt, dark bread, roasted malts, burnt cocoa and a bit of dark sugar. Medium sweet flavor with a wonderful cross between smokey and roasty malts. Some good minerals, dark cocoa, rocks, burnt sugar, burnt earth and light grass. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Fairly dry and smokey to finish with plenty of roasty, almost burnt malts, baking cocoa, faint vanilla, burnt toast, dirt. A really nice, smokey porter. Pretty solid complexity and still very drinkable.

Cask-conditioned at the Three Tuns, Bristol 6/05/2012. Dark brown with hints of red and a slight, off-white head. Aroma of roasted malts, fatty bacon and caramel, with a hint of leafy hop. Flavour was sweetish, with some dark fruit, chocolate and a dry roasty finish. Very drinkable. Part of the "freestyle Friday" series.