7.5/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Dec 2023
at 19:49
8/10
Tried
on 06 Oct 2023
at 19:50
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle bought at Cotteridge Wines. Aroma has dark fruit, malts, and a fruit vinegar sour streak. Opaque glossy dark brown. Thin foamy off-white head retreats to the rim. Rich. Dark fruit. Boozy bite. Followed by a wave of molasses. Heavy bodied. Oily. Soft-fizzy carbonation. Long slightly astringent finish. Slips down.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Oct 2023
at 20:39
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
28/7/2023. Cask at the 33rd Ipswich Beer and Cider Festival. Pours black with a small frothy beige head. Aroma is boozy, woody, toffee, toasted, roasted malt, camp coffee, charcoal, ash, touch of port wine and plastic. Quite sweet with light to moderate roasted bitterness. Medium to full body, slick, soft to flat carbonation. Good, but for me not quite up to previous versions.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Jul 2023
at 20:43
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle at home, 2nd June 23. Pours a dark red brown. Aroma is dark fruit, caramel and booze, taste is sweet and sticky, malts, barrel, liquor, it’s a bit too sweet, bit drinkable
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jun 2023
at 21:16
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
2017 bottle @ monthly tasting, Chez Sophie, May 23. Thanks Craig for this! Pours dark, small tan head. Aroma of dark malt, leather, dark chocolate.. quite rich to taste, woody dark malt, a lick of liquorice and distant chewing tobacco. Nicely presented.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 May 2023
at 16:12
8/10
Tried
on 29 May 2023
at 16:45
7/10
Tried
on 08 May 2023
at 22:29
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at ash's. Pours black, nose is woody, chocolate, vanilla, almond, taste is similar, quite a lot of oak.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Apr 2023
at 15:24
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle thanks to cgarvieuk. Appearance - dark and opaque with a tan head. Nose - nuts, dried fruit, leather and burnt wood. Taste - raisins, prunes, burnt wood and something a bit like PX. Palate - medium bodied and roasty with a long linger. Overall - lovely, elegant beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Apr 2023
at 09:06