bottle, pours gold with a thin white head. Aroma is strong wheat and bannana. Flavor is peach and apple with some wheat notes and a highly carbonated crisp finish of light fruit.

Bottle, 4.3%. Berry-like, caramelly aroma. Almost clear dark golden colour. Very small white head. The flavour is slightly caramelly, mild but rough bitterness. Not wheaty.

Bottle (labeled as Carlow Oharas Irish Stout) thanks to Swalden28. Pours with a black body and a tan head. Aroma of chocolate, grain and raisin. Taste is watery, paper and chocolate. Mouthfeel is watery and not awesome.

Bottle from Utobeer shared with MagicDave. Liquorice stout with a bit of cardboard. Tar on aroma, really bad finish. Like a dead rodent. Poor. 1.8 Re-rate I bought this by mistake at Terre de Boissons, Calais. It’s a lot better than the first time. Still a little liquorice, but better flavours. Must have been a bad bottle last time. I even quite like it. Good choc and coffee and pleasant in mouth, some very mild sour acidity on finish. OK.

8th August 2008. On tap at GBBF. Smooth but not thick. Dry and mildly toasted malt. Slighyly bitter finish. Okay. Unremarkable.

BA trade. Pours dark brown, with mocha like head. aroma, roasted malts, chocolate. flavor, lots of good roast, chocolate malts, some coffee, medium carbonation, light mouthfeel, hints of dark fruits and coffee toward the finish. Light, tasty, filled with flavors. As it warmed pup, the chocolate gained a little more presence and a smooth nice roasty finish.

Bottled at Bishop’s Arms Vasagatan, Stockholm. Transparently black, huge firm head. Aroma of coffe and chocolate. Mid-dry, feels light and airated despite a core of dense oily molasses. Grass caramel and chocolate comes along. A bitterness, which has resiny undertones, keeps growing. Feels rich,flavourful and potent, yet drinkable and fairly slim.

(bottle) Clear, ruby amber colour with a big and beige foamy head. Roast-malty aroma with toffee, notes of liquorice and shy traces of herbal hops. Sweet-bitter flavour, light bodied with a moderate carbonation. Roasty malty taste with notes of dark bread, toffee; moderately dry and toasted, slightly bitter and subtle fruity finish. One of the better Irish Reds I have had so far. 06.XI.09

Pours deep brown into a shaker. Off-white head quickly subsides to mottle surface. Sour malt aromas. Crisp with upfront caramel and a thin, dry, lasting finish.

Medium beige head. Deep red body. Faint roasty aroma. Dry roasty watery taste. Mid-to-thin body. Dry mealy watery roasty aftertaste. Entirely useless. (0.3l draft, The Tower Pub, St. Petersburg. Should rerate.)