Golden color. Light aroma, with some honey and straw. Average body, with some malt and a bery strong bitterness. Pleasant, but somehow without personality, and a bit metallic.

Has a small white/off white head and a huge golden/amber color, with some bright orange tinges. Begins very flavorful. Hops abound along with a nice sweet malt flavor that mixes right in. The hops are just enough up front and then relax a bit while a wonderful even and sweet, but not overly caramelly sweet, malt sets in. There is perfect carbonation in the bottle. I can taste a variety of flavors. Nuts, grains, oranges, and of course hops. This is not knock your socks off IPA however, which is a nice change from some one-sided, all hops IPA’s. I dont see how people can complain about the relative less hoppy taste here. It hits right away and is fresh and complex. Just because this beer is not hops, hops, hops, extra hops and more hops, makes it better in my book. It has a nice round dry finish, but the beer has plenty of flavor before drying out and has lots of character. Clean crisp aroma, with even a bit of yeast and some piney/sugary notes.

Very devious, bottling your oatmeal stout under a different name, Sammy! Everything about this beer can be found in my review of the oatmeal stout. Sweet, malty, and roasty sums it up. Yet, strangely, why did I know exactly what this would taste like before I poured the bottle? Seems this way with all Samuel Smith products...

Pale amber colour. Medium head. Smooth toffee aroma. Malty flavour with some hops. Quite easy drinking and tasty.

Very dark in colour, and i'm hesitant to say that its black, but I believe it is. Almost completely opaque, but some very dark shades of brown showing at the bottom. The head poured a nice light brown colour, but faded very quickly. The aroma is of metal, some chocolate and some coffee...actually not that pleasing. A full-bodied beer which starts out tasting like a ligher-bodied, full-flavoured beer, but then develops into a bitter, short ending beer. Not too complex in the taste, some roasted barley, malty characteristics...but nothing really noticable, other than that. I typically enjoy Sam Smith beers, but this one wasn't too great.

Black, almost purple. Thin, lacey caramel to white head, Smells great! Mild, dry port wine, similar but a little more pungent , more sweet even than the taddy porter aroma. Bottle. Ripe plum, sweet with burnt notes throughout. Has a chocolatey finish. The roasted malt is almost ash/tobacco like with a very dry flavor, but very understated. This is in stark contrast with the ripe plum flavor that hits the top of the palette. A bit too much carbonation upon first opening, gives an improper texture and disrupts the body. Not as much body as I was hoping for, though it is still medium-full. Aftertaste lingers, like sucking on a caramel chocolate chew (after trying this some more, I’d say more like peanut brittle! yum). As the beer warmed, carbonations became perfect, and the flavor warmed and became much fuller. I sat there with a thermometer and tried it at many temperatures. It seemed best around 57-59. Again, the initial bittersweet-oil taste is a bit too much and detracts some, but other than that, a hell of a solid beer