From a 375ml can on 26/11/2023. Pours a deep dark amber with a small but small but fast disappearing head. Smells sweet and malty - hints of caramel, chocolate, nuts and butterscotch, with some stewed fruit in the mix. Tastes of caramel, chocolate, honey, dark fruit and a touch of vanilla. Very sweet, and not suprisingly, very boozy, with a moderate but sharpish bitterness providing some contrast. Syrupy palate with moderate carbonation. A very good, complex, huge dessert sipper.

(Can) Pours hazy golden with nice white head. Good aroma, mixed fruits and pine. Great mouthfeel - full bodied, soft and mouthfilling. Great taste too. Very juicy. Moderate pleasant hoppy bitterness develops in the finish. Very enjoyable.

(Can) Pours slightly hazy golden with small white head. Pleasant aroma of pine and fruits - stone fruit, melon, citrus. Medium body with good fine bright carbonation. Good taste. There’s some nice peppery bitterness throughout the palate and into a long finish. There’s also some nice fruitiness - citrus and stone fruit - and a hint of coconut in the mid palate. Very nice.

(Can) Pours slightly hazy amber brown with good off-white head. Lovely aroma of apricot with floral hints. Medium body with bright carbonation. Plenty of fresh fruit at the start. Apricot and orange. The finish is a nice combination of hoppy bitterness and tannic dryness. The malt is rather in the background. Unusual, works pretty well, enjoyable and interesting.

(Can) Pours black with big short-lived tan head. Lovely rich aroma - toffee, port, raisins. Full bodied, slightly sticky with livelier carbonation than typical for style. Good rich taste too. There’s dark toffee and a porty booze as the dominant flavours. There’s some nice black coffee or burnt sugar bitter notes in the finish. There’s raisins at the start. Very enjoyable.

(Can - but 5.2% in 2023) Pours black with red highlights and a short lived white head. Aroma of coconut and biscuit. Medium bodied with moderate fine carbonation and a slightly oily feel. Unusual taste. There’s coconut. And there’s a rather restrained dark ale, with some tartness and some modest dark toffee notes. They are not working together for me. The aftertaste is Lamington. A bit odd. Definitely drinkable.

(Can) Pours black with a small tan head. Aroma is worryingly dominated by a vegetable aroma that I know is chilies, with hints of toffee. Full bodied, smooth and sticky with fine prickly carbonation giving excellent mouthfeel. Taste is pretty impressive and complex. So… there’s a lovely toffee sweetness and chocolate throughout the palate, and there is an enjoyable chili burn that builds from barely perceptible at the start to enjoyably hot in the finish, without being overpowering. There’s some raisins and cherry fruitiness at the start and some cinnamon hints in the mid palate. For such a high ABV the alcohol is not obvious; maybe any alcohol burn is masked by the chili. There is a generally fortified wine feel though. Very enjoyable. I love chilies and I love beer, and the combination can work well, but rarely does. This is an exception and I think it works because of the good balance with the chocolate and sweetness.

From a 375ml can on 9/11/2023. Pours a clearish amber with the barest of heads. Has a big caramel nose which is overlayed by light notes of glace cherries and dried fruit. The falvour is intense - masses of burnt caramel and salty peanut butter, with the glace cherries presenting again in the background. Has a really good sweet/salty balance, with a lingering, slightly burnt bitterness. There' s touch of sour in there, but only a touch, with salt being far more prominent. The mouthfeel is slick and syrupy, the carbonation moderate. It actually nails the peanut brittle descriptor. I've never had a beer anything like it. Definitely a sipper, but a really impressive dessert treat.