Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
330ml bottle. Pours clear golden with a white head. Aroma: grainy, floral, grassy hop, citrus. Taste: light sweet, bready malts, grass, lagery. Light to medium body, soft carb, semi dry finish
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle: Deep chestnut-amber coloured, no head to speak of; mild to moderate sweetish-bitter nose of toasted/roasted malt and dried fruits, well hidden traces of coffee still detectable; hardly moderate sweetish-bitter flavour, quite light bodied - but soft at least; slightly lingering roasty and coffeeish finish. Well drinkable, but nothing special...
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
(bottle, 33cl) Dark brown, almost black colour with a short and beige foamy layer. Sweet and mildly roasted malty with hints of condensed milk, liquorice and chocolate. Mildly sweet and roasty bitter flavour, light to medium bodied with a soft carbonation. Slightly roasted malty base with notes of caramel, dark chocolate and liquorice, also lactic hints; moderately sweet and slightly roasty bitter finish with a delicately salty tail of chocolate. Good. 27.II.18
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
330ml bottle from Aldi. Jet black with a decent tan head. Sweet toffee aroma, flavour is toffee and chocolate. Very sweet, bordering on too sweet, but very drinkable. Dessert in a glass
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle thanks to Stuu666. Pours clear dark brown with no head. Aromas of dark chocolate and toffee. Taste is sweet, more dark chocolate. Light roast. Sweet finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
500ml bottle shared by my friend Björn in Aberdeen. Nose is light casaba, caramel, and citrus. Clear amber with a medium heavy lacing beige head. Flavor is moderately bitter and malty.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Third of a cask pint at the Scottish Real Ale Festival in Edinburgh’s Corn Exchange on 7th July 2017. Dark amber with a ruby hue, the head a lightly tanned affair. Malty molasses rule the nose and taste, caramel and toffeee being the flavours and aromas. Add some red berry notes and you get a very pleasant semi-sweet beer indeed.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
330ml bottle (as Deeside APA). 14th July 2017, fourth beer in a tasting session with myself. BBE Aug 2018, poured into a Westmalle trappist chalice. Clear amber body, collar and wisp on top. Got a bit of a cold, so the aroma is lost on me: dank, piny hops may have got through the nose to my sences, citrusy too? Taste is hop forward and semi-bitter, light malty flavours come late as does a mild orange trace or two. OK, I liked it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Prototype can from the brewer. Hazy amber/brown body with a thin beige head. Steady carbonation. Faint lacing. Aroma of burnt sugar, treacle and toffee. Flavour of caramel and stewed tea. Thin body with a watery texture. Soft fizz. Really good - sweet and flavoursome. I’d like to try this on cask.