2017-11-21, bottle bb Mar04, ~15 years old, 5-3-4-1-7=20
Leather, old bloke, wet wood. Flat, with bready and leathery malts, some wood in the final.
Definitively too old.

2004-01-10, bottle, 8-4-8-5-17=42
Amber color. Fruity hop aroma (Cascade-like). Strong, sweet, malty, oranges… Almost an IPA. The only really good one by Harvey's, I had so far.

2023-08-29, bb Feb 2009, assumed 15 years old, 7-4-7-3-15=36
It has no carbonation, and there is some oxidized smell, but, since it was a maltier than average brew, it still has some body and flavour, traces of orange peel and spice; no alcohol, and the low bitterness doesn't disturb much.

2010-03-01, about 1½ years old, 7-5-8-4-15=39
Dark amber color with a ruby reflex; sparse head. Mild aroma, caramel, light cheese, very light fruity touch (raisins). Good body strength; it has a good malt and caramel flavor, quite sweet but lean, not very long, with traces of nuts; very low bitterness. Average alcohol warmth.
It may be interesting in a couple of years to see the effects of oxidisation (but the bottle is filtered).

2008-11-24, bottle at The Wharf, Aalborg, 7-5-8-4-15=16
Dark amber color; big head. Some caramel aroma, quite mature. Medium body strength, it has an excellent sweet caramel flavor, complemented by a light woody fruitness (10% of what you find in Gale), all well mixed and dynamic, yet solid. In the final there is a bit more of chocolate. Excellent.

2003-01-07, 7-4-7-4-14=36
Ruby amber color; poor head. Strange aroma: malt, cork, raisins, spices, vegetables. Thick, oily; carrots and celery, malt, herbs, caramel; quite sweet. Bitter ending, but it could stand a heavier hopping.

2000 vintage, 4 years old: This is a complex beer. It pours with absolutly no head or carbination. Looks almost like a stout mixed with blood, kindy of oily. Aroma is complex and so is the taste, hard to describe. There is some bitterness at the end and one could taste the alcohol. It is nothing like I have ever tried before and a person might completely hate this beer. 7/4/6/4/14

RE-rate: 1999 vintage, 8 years old, shared by Indra. Well, this will stay on as a controversial brew. This bottle, Eric said, was cellared from the beginning and it shows because this has been one of the best ones I have ever tried. Its so cream with light roast, soy sauce, and yeast-y fruitiness, and just a small lactic touch (not overly deviant for an English stout). Very undercarbonated body which adds to the velvet feel on the cheeks. Lots of nuances in this beer. Again, I have had bad bottles but this one aged very well. I will keep this as my official score. 8/4/8/5/17

(2000 vintage) Pours jet-black with just a few black-brown bubbles; nearly viscous; and the cork, of abysmal quality, has expanded little corkfluff all over the surface. Dried plums, vinous, nearly acetic or balsamico; also very remarkedly dried figs. Somewhere something smoked is suggested. Again extremely vinous in the taste, tart, over-woody character; walnut and its green husk - even ink-like. Bitter, but the vinous character makes it more as tannines, or tuber-like, than hoppy. Tobacco and vanilla retronasal. Very viscous (pouring is affirmed), syrupy. Velvety is too mild - its like drinking compressed cotton or gauze. Very bitter aftertaste, tobacco-like. This is BIG and complex - nothing subtle and layered about it - just an enormous punch. And not to be missed, IMO.

2001 bottle - One of the thickest, darkest pours I’ve seen, even in an Imperial Stout - the head is dark tan, but disappears rather quickly - aroma of chocolate, hops, coffee and port - flavor begins with a heavy dose of bitter-sweet baker’s chocolate, but is soon followed by plums, caramel, and port flavors, even a slight vinous character, perhaps even raisins - these slowly make way for a dark-roast coffee flavor and a hint of hops, both of which last into the long, satisfying finish - tiny alcohol burn in the finish leaves the tongue tingling - this is an outstanding beer experience - a must try for all fans of Imperial Stouts.