Bottle. Black colour with a tan head. Aroma is roasted coffee. Flavour is sweet, roasted, coffee, hop. Nice beer.

Bottle. Pours a jet black body with a minimal beige head on top. Burnt, coffeeish aroma with some licorice and a faint hoppy note. Burnt, coffeeish flavor too, with a hoppy bitterness slighlty more pronounced than in the aroma, as well as a coffee-ish bitterness. Medium body and a burnt, coffee-like finish. I would like it a bit more fruity, even though it’s not as coffee-ish as it might seem from my notes. For a 4.5% beer though, it’s very nice. (071027)

Cask/GBBF. Yellow with a small white head. Grass and butterscotch in the aroma. Semi-sweet flavour with some pungent hops.

(Cask at Pembury Tavern, Hackney, London, 28 Nov 2007) Black colour with brief, pale brown head. Roasted nose with distinct notes of heavily roasted coffee and dark bitter chocolate. Roasted taste with freshly ground coffee, dark chocolate and soy sauce. Dry, with lots of coffee bitterness in the finish. Very nice stout.

Bottle- I remember having this beer a few years ago and not thinking too much of it but the bottle I had was sensational. Very dark in colour with a nice roasted aroma but also with some beautiful aromatic hops in there. The palate is subtle and not overwhelming but is delicious and superbly balanced. Coffee and roasted malts in the taste and very easy to drink. A superb brew.

500ml bottle from Sainsburys. Dark coffee coloured with a tan head; deep rich chocolate aroma; rather thin in the mouth, with coffee and well roasted malts developing a dry finish. Excellent.

Pitch black colour, small tan head. Aroma starts with coffeecream, to chocoloate to bitter coffee and roasted malts. Flavour is of bitter coffee, roasted malts and liquorice. Very decent stout.

Very dark ruby beer with a medium sized, lasting off-white head. Malt, bread and toffee in the aroma, and a note of Munich malt. Rich and malty flavour with a bitter finish

[i] Cask at the Coach and Horses, Shrewsbury, Salop, 19-10-07 [/i] Poured very near black with off white head there was a redness in this that was caught by the light from the window. The aroma was fine but somewhat predictable with just roasty notes detected. Taste was quite soft and pleasant a bit thin even shallow, but the roasted flavours of the malts shone through nicely.

Cask @ Market Porter, Borough. Pours a dark amber/brown color with a small off-white head. Roasted malty aroma with some weak hints of chocolate. Roasted malty flavor with some dark fruit hints. Long malty finish.