7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
330ml bottle. Cloudy, chestnut colour with weak ruby shimmer and average, frothy, slowly osteoporosing, minimally lacing, sulphureous head. Yeasty fruity and sweet-ish, caramel malty, slightly yeasty spicy aroma, notes of dried fruit, red fruit, cherry, red berries, raisin, fig, plum, a touch of plum butter, black pepper, coriander, weak Bourbon overtones. Taste is yeasty fruity and slightly yeasty spicy, slightly alcoholic, caramel malty basis with some residual sweetness, notes of dried fruit, alcohol soaked dried fruit, raisin, plum, fig, some treacle, a touch of coriander in the last third; a minimally warming, alcoholic touch throughout, even more alcoholic presence in the finish.
Dissolved sugar enriched, watery texture, smooth, simultaneously minimally dry and pungent palate, medium, mildly prickly carbonation.
Nice fruitiness, well controlled sweetness, a tad too boozy - solid