Bottle 650ml @ geokkjer
[Courtesy of bergstaden] Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, dark chocolate, nuts, vanilla, coffee and kind of peanut butterish. Taste is medium to heavy sweet and medium bitter with a long nutty, dark chocolate, vanilla, roasted and lots of cold bitter coffee finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. A bit to much coffee in the taste for my liking but still a nice beer.

Tap at Track 7 2nd Invitational. Pours translucent dark gold with a transient white head. Aroma of Brett and fruit. Med body at least. Flavor is Brett and pale stone fruit. Dry - perhaps there’s a wood aspect here. Bretty. Excellent.

Tap at Track 7 2nd Invitational. Pours red berry color with an off-white head. Aroma is red berry fruit and a salt hint. Med minus body. Flavor is mixed red berry fruit and light salt. It’s towards dry; quite berry fruit; Might be something like cranberry bitter lurking. Nice.

2015-2016 vintage (new) $19 bomber (ouch!) pours with a deep dark mahogany colored body that supports a thin light mocha head. The aroma modest offers up rich chocolate notes, chocolate brownie, molasses nuance spicy oak, a dash of marshmallow and then soft thin bourbon echoes. The taste delivers a bourbon boozy experience that’s right there but pretty well restrained and blended into chocolate, some thin sweet prune and date notes as well as highly roasted malts. It picks up thin muddled spicy oak toward midway just as it gets a hint of marshmallow. Toward the finish the thin soft sweet bourbon bubbles to the surface along with a pleasing sliver of toffee. This is pretty nice. The bourbon could be a tad further restrained but it certainly doesn’t get in the way of the tasty beer notes. For the big price tag I’m not sure the value is there to ever get another bottle.

On tap in Devilicious, Temecula California on 10th Feb 2017. True red colour with an off-white wispy head. Hops rule the aroma with piney notes, taste has some maltiness but that is overpowered by the bittering hops: dry finish.

Bottle from at local market in San Diego. Golden with a white head. Aroma and taste of hops, citrus, resin, caramel and some pineapple. The body was medium and the finish bitter.

Keg at Crate, Hackney Wick, London, Saturday 21st January 2017 walking from Tottenham Hale to Olympic Park via Lea Valley the walk is from Londons Hidden Walks Pours murky orange in colour with a sticky white head. Unusual aroma sort of Lillies combined with floor polish, some waxiness. Sits quite heavy in the mouth, waxiness comes through here also, but peppered with a pithy orangeyness. Its really quite unusual, but it’s good. A7 A4 T8 P4 Ov16 3.9

Bottle 22fl.oz. [ As Ironfire Six Killer Stout ].Clear dark brown black color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light brown head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, chocolate, hazelnut, moderate roasted. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, hazelnut, chocolate, dark malt, dark chocolate. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20150809] 8-4-8-3-15

Dark beige head, creamy, over black beer. Sweet, chocolate, very roasted, but not a hint of a suggestion at bitterness in the nose. Sweet nuts. Taste however is dry, more coffee, roasted, and a sweetish, dessert-like finish, as crème brulée or café Liegois with mocha. Bit earthy too, but always sweet (ish). Well-bodied, but aftertaste comes on thinner, drier. Well-carbonated. Not bad, but too sweet for my full approval.