8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can at home, 8th November 2025. Pours black, aroma is Cocoa and chocolate, malts, floral. Taste is Cocoa, citrus and malts well made.

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can at home, 13th November 2025. Pours a murky red brown. Aroma is caramel and hoppy. Taste is grainy, caramel, floral and earthy bitter

8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

440ml can. Pours a very dark brown with a beige head. Aroma of citrus, grapefruit, lime, some chocolatey and roasty malts. Taste is also hop-forward, citrus to the fore with plenty of grapefruit and lime, very zesty, citrus peel, malts are chocolatey and light roast, some bitterness in the finish but somewhat low for the style, probably wants a little more. Medium bodied. That's a beautiful BIPA to be fair, a little more bitterness and this'd be spot on for me.

7.4

Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

440ml can. Murky reddy-brown colour with a big beige head. Aroma of orange, citrus peel, caramel, and unusually floral. Taste of big citrus, orange, grapefruit peel, biscuit and caramel malts, piney resin, strong lingering bitterness, slight perfumey/floral note as well though which I let it down a bit. Excellent body, very full especially for the strength.

6.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

On tap at Ebenezers, Crewe. Pours almost black with minimal beige head and medium carbonation. There’s roasted malts and chocolate in the aroma plus hints of biscuits. In the mouth it is decidedly sweet. Initial flavours are roasted malts, chocolate, cake and dark fruits. Later on traces of bitterness, spice and cola come through leading to a slightly fruity finish. This is reasonable – but not very exciting.

6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask by stillage at One Inn The Wood, Petts Wood on 10th November 2025. Hazy straw coloured with disappearing foam and no lacing. Tart citrus aroma. Fresh orchard fruits and lemon citrus in-mouth. A finish of grapefruit juice. Zingy mouthfeel and a light body.

9.5

Cask at the strugglers inn Lincoln. Jet black with a thick tan head. Aroma and taste are sweet chocolate and some vanilla. Light boozy. Rich body and very smooth

6.9

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Victorian Craft Beer Cafe Back In Black Beer Festival 2025, Beer#3. First fully black one, sticky-sweet and boozy, boozy-sweet taste and some coconut in aroma.

7

Can at home from trembling madness. Light hazed golden colour with a white head. Aroma and taste are citrus and yeasty. Some earthiness. Medium body.