330ml bottle. Jet black colour with slightly late awakening, average, dense, creamy, moderately to mostly lasting, moderately lacing, brown head. Roasty, chocolately, dark malty and mildly spicy aroma, notes of dark chocolate, milk chocolate, cocoa, some coffee, whiffs of chili and red wine. Taste is roasty and chocolately, dark malty and peppery spicy, notes of dark chocolate, cocoa, some milk chocolate, coffee, notes of chili with accumulating, eventually pungent spiciness which also delivers slightly dusty aspects; notes of mocha withstand the spiciness throughout the lingering finish. Creamy to viscous texture, smooth and soft, silky, slightly cloying, simultaneously pungent palate, medium to fine, dense, soft, creamy carbonation. Quite intense, not overly complex; highly concentrated spiciness is still far from excruciating, hardly detectable BA influences - a one time experience, not the kind of Impy Stout you'll cellar in heaps.

Magus, hapu, kirsine, nisune, vesine, kaneel. Ok, kirss meeldib, õllesus madal

10th November 2024
Panda thanks to Cloin for this Greek haul. Just a mild haze on this gold beer, small bubbly off white head. Light palate, semi dry, good fine minerally carbonation. Thin malts, a thin creamy sweetness, trace of grain. Hop spice bites from the get go. Crisp pine. Fairly bright citrus, a little candy fruits on the back end along with some citrus peel. More hop spice on the crisp and semi dry finish. A little awkward in places but overall, pretty solid.

3rd November 2024
Panda thanks to Cloin. Double thanks for hauling this back from Greece. Almost clear gold beer, small bubbly pale cream colour head. Airy palate, decent fine minerally carbonation. The pale malts are clean but bring an unusual and pronounced honey sweetness. Crisp pine into ripeish but juicy citrus. Touch of tea and hop skunk and a little hop spice before a light and semi dry finish. Different and pretty tasty.

Can in the hotel in Aegina, picked up from one of the craft places in Athens, 14/10/24. Almost clear golden to light orange topped with a lasting just off white head. Nose is grapefruit, pine needle, grass, melon, papaya, mandarin, ripe tropical fruit esters. Taste comprises orange pith, grapefruit, pine needle, grass, ripe melon, dank chimes. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spiked with juicy come resinous hop bitterness allied to a balanced rising boost. Solid punchy DIPA.

Can in the hotel on Aegina, picked up from either Tales of Ales or Barley Cargo in Athens, 14/10/24. Hazed orange with a lasting frothy just off white head. Nose is juicy citric flesh, papaya, mandarin, guava, pink grapefruit zest. Taste comprises orange pith, hint of lime coming from the Talus, grass, light stone fruit, grapefruit, pine nip, soft malts, light mineral bite. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spiked with juicy come grassy hop bitterness. Tidy IPA.