Cheap can for $2. Pour into a mug is big and black, it appears large and in charge. Very thin scum pond head. My this stuff is so dark, its hard to look away. Smell is malty but not sure if I can pick out any coconut olfactory. First taste is big black stout, almost imperial in taste or should I say pastry? Yea, this stuff should be listed as a pastry stout fersher. Hey, I see tho that RB does not differentiate between pastry and flavored, you know? Relatively smooth without any cloying sweetness and it comes across with some burnt malt attitude. I'm glad it has a lower alky content, makes it easier to drink. Decent pastry beer, but that's probably why its really a flavored stout. Very mild carbonation to the finish. There, you have it.

Bottle@Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Reddish brown colour with a mediumdized foamy head. Aroma is chocolate, some toast, mild wooden tones with some dried fruits to it. Flavour is toasted malts, chocolate, some dried fruits, lactose and mild wooden tones. Some nutty tones comes up ion the aftertaste.

Bottle. Close to black colour, with a small beigeish brown head. Aroma is roasted, some berries, mild liquorice root as well as some slight vanilla and lactose to it. Flavour is vanilla, sweet berries, some lactose, mild toasted nutty tones with a bit of chocolate as well.

355ml can from Home Bargains, Telford: BB 9th May 2024. Drank at home on 31st August 2023. Clean golden body, white topping. Lemons rule the nose and flavour with the blueberries coming through nicely, if you like that sort of thing in a shandy (no, me neither).

12oz can at share. Golden body, small white head. Aroma is bready, malty, light hop touch. Taste is smooth, mildly sweet, crisp.

Can from Home Bargains, Byfleet. Aroma had musty blueberry and a light if tart citrus edge. Malty underbelly. Golden. An opaqueness. Thin foamy translucent white head. Hmm... a sourness. Light blueberry tang. Yeasty. Malty. Makes me think of icecream pales, which I also was not overly keen on. Light. Thin. Soft-fizzy carbonation. Long dry slightly astringent finish. Doesn't work for me. Ditch the blueberries when it comes to shandies please.

[12oz can from Home Bargains, Bracknell.] A slightly hazy straw coloured pour with a thin white head; sweet aroma - grain, lemon and blueberry; tart fruity taste, with a good balance between the blueberries and lemon; then a finish than nicely blends bitterness and tartness. Clean and refreshing, and rather potent for a shandy.

Deep and robust brown coloured body with at least a little dose of haze and opacity at the bottom, with a nice off-white head that starts at two centimetres tall and fades pretty quickly. Aroma of roasted malt, nuts, earth, grain and some light coffee notes, but the nuttiness especially show through everything here. Medium-bodied; Finally a bit of a biting malt characteristic that shows up front with some good earthy and robust nutty qualities that give this some pungency and lasting notes in the glass, but the spices and sweetness are relatively lacking here as well. Aftertaste shows some light grainy notes with a soft sweetness and a good pungency from lactose and creaminess, but not much in the way of complexity, depth or malt notes, with no spices here at all. Overall, a bit lacking for the style, but showing a bit more pungency and pronounced flavours than that of the other beers that I had from the brewery. Nice to try, but not a great example of a porter and if you are looking for a deeper beer, the Pupmkin Chai (if available) is a bit better in my opinion. I sampled this pour on draught at Saugatuck Brewing Company in Saugatuck, Michigan with my one daughter when she wasn't even three yet, sampled on 10-September-2015.

Deeper dark brown coloured body with a nicer, deeper shade of tan that still isn't light brown, but getting closer than either of the Scothes that I tried. Aroma of a good deal of squash along with some nice spice notes with the allspice, coriander seed, cardamom and yes some black tea/chai notes that come through in the nose. Light to Medium-bodied; On the relative thinner side here with some nuttiness near the end along with a dash of the squash, but the black tea and spiciness from the chai is notieable in a nice way and leads to a good complexity, especially at the end. Aftertaste shows some of the sweetness from the malts with a light dose of graininess and bitterness, but the spice quality leads to a very pleasant complexity at the end. Overall, a pretty nice beer, perhaps the best of the bunch that I've tried so far, but not a great beer or one that must be tried by everyone, but for those who like spiced tea, this is nice! I sampled this pour on draught at Saugatuck Brewing Company in Saugatuck, Michigan with my one daughter when she wasn't even three yet, sampled on 10-September-2015.