Can 330ml (Drikbeer) Opaque colour, tiny beige head. Odd ashy sweet peanut aroma. Full-bodied. Odd peanut butter, ash, alcohol, raspberry, vanilla flavour. Odd ... same time awful and drinkable.

Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2023, Friday. Almost black beer with a tan lacing. Aroma and Taste of dark roasted malt, wood, whiskey, mild sourness.

Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2023, Saturday. Almost black beer with a beige lacing. Aroma and Taste of berries, strong dark malt, red fruits, sugar.

Creamy lightbrown good fully lasting head. Black colour. Moderate malty and light hoppy aroma. MOderate bitter flavor. Strong peanut butter notes. Long moderate bitter finish. Creamy palate.

Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2023, Saturday. Black beer, tan head. Aroma and Taste of mild smoked strong dark malt, vanilla, berries.

Stout flavoured with coffee, chocolate and maple syrup, by this Star Wars-themed brewer in Leicestershire. Can bought at BCBF and emptied as a ‘train beer’ on the ride back from Antwerp to Ghent, cheers Steve! Waferthin, open, greyish beige ring of a head on a black beer with somewhat ochre-tinged brownish edges. Aroma of indeed strong black coffee, espresso, burnt toast, salted caramel, unsugared black chocolate, almond, soy sauce, blueberry crumble but not so much maple syrup (oddly, as this tends to be a pronounced flavour). Sweet onset with light umami notes, candied dates and fried black olives, very soft carbonation; oily hazelnutty, caramelly and dark-chocolatey malts, again far less maple syrup sweetness than expected, though this scoundrel does deliver in the coffee element, with a pleasant coffee roastedness and coffee aroma retronasally – though roasted bitterness as such remains altogether mild and gentle. Light peppery hops briefly pierce through a warming, whisky-tinged finish, but everything remains tied together well. Old school bittersweet coffee stout, basically – and a very good one at that.

Wine barrel aged imperial stout macerated with sour cherries, sampled at BCBF. Yellowish beige, open ring for a head on a black robe with coppery edges. Aroma of elderberry juice, blackberries, dark cherries indeed, brown rum, caramel toasted coconut, blue grapes or indeed red wine, madera even, old wood. Softly tart onset with notes of blackberry and elderberry more than the sour cherries that actually went here, the soft fruity sourness mitigated by candied fig-like residual sweetness; soft carb, full body, layers of toffee, black chocolate and cappuccino acting bittersweet-malty at first but then gently dried by woody tannins and tart grapey fruitiness, while simultaneously a pronounced, bit ashy, coffee-like roasted bitterness appears as well. Warming alcohol and earthy hop elements add further complexity. Dark fruitiness all around, very solid fruit stout in that sense, if perhaps a bit more fruit acidity could have turned things in a whole other and possibly more interesting direction.