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Bottle 50cl.Clear light amber color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, nutty, caramel, light to moderate hoppy, grass, orange. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20081003]

Bottle 50cl.Clear light to medium amber orange color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, nutty, caramel, light to moderate hoppy. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20081003]

[500ml bottle from The Little Beer Shop, Blofield, Norfolk] Pours a clear brown-black. No head, although the very slight carbonation left a surprising amount of lacing down the side of the glass. Smells slightly fruity - almost more like a bitter than a stout. However, primary taste has plenty of coffee and smoke. There are some liquorice and plums in the background too. Lovers of strong stouts might find the consistency a tad watery, but for me this simply made it more drinkable - this is a stout for when you are thirsty, rather than for merely sipping. In fact, you could easily knock back two or three pints of it; this factor, combined with a relatively low bitterness, had me thinking of a mild rather than a stout - which was probably why I rather enjoyed it! I also slopped a little into the stroganoff sauce I was making at the time, and it worked really very well indeed!

50 cL bottle, courtesy of fonefan. Pours clear and golden orange with a fully diminished white head. Light fruity and light spiced aroma. Mild fruity and bitter flavour. Vague sweetness. Light bitter and mild fruity finish.

50 cL bottle, courtesy of fonefan. Pours clear and golden orange with a small off-white head. Mild sweet biscuit malty and vaguely fruity aroma. Bitter and mild spiced hoppy flavour with a dry malty and towards breadish base flavour. Light citric finish again with a distinct bitterness and light ashtray-ish spice note.

(Bottle 50 cl) Courtesy of fonefan. Clear deep golden with an off-white head. Lightly fruity nose. Medium body, light fruitiness with a little yeast and diacetyl. Dry and bitter finish. 031008

(Bottle 50 cl) Courtesy of fonefan. Clear amber golden with a small off-white head. Aroma of nuts and caramel. Medium body, some caramel and a fairly bitter finish. 031008

Bottle at home ... Deep black ... sweet toffee roast malts ... deep roast malts ... little chocolate ... little dark fruit... bit thin body no real depth but ok.

Bottle picked up at Bellingers Jet Garage, Grove near Wantage, Oxon, consumed this evening 07-10-08 Another good, simple stout from East Anglia, ok its not quite Wagtail Black Shuck but its not too far away. Pours black moving to brown at the edges with an off white head. Good dry roasty bitter bite with some liqourice as well, lovely. Aroma is of light chocolate, really nice beer.