440ml can from lowcostbeer.com, consumed 14/06/21, BBE 20/10/21. I would have thought 330ml would be a better measurement for a 14% beer but that might just be me. Not going to finish this tonight. Pours blacks with small tanned head, circular retention. Aroma of chocolate liqueur, roasted malts, coffee; nice if a bit predictable. Taste is roasty and bitter with coffee coming through stronger in the flavour. This is offset with a moreish chocolate smoothness, a touch of caramel and a berry fruity tang. Certainly more going on in the flavour. A slight alcohol note on the way down but it hides the ABV very well overall. Moderate to full body and not too thick, nice smoothness. After having a poor imperial stout from this brewery I was apprehensive but this is a very good beer.

440ml can from lowcostbeer.com, consumed 3 months before BBE. Pours a cloudy deep red with a brief pink fizzy head. Aroma of juicy blueberries, hints of creamy malts. Taste is semi-sour, tart blueberries, yeasty yogurt notes, wheat, punchy alcohol. Moderate to full body but quite a slick mouthfeel. Interesting to try a fruity sour at this strength. I like it but don't love it.

Strong coffee stout by this craft brewery in Manchester, northern England; at Billie’s Bier Kafétaria. Creamy, pale brownish-beige, rather thin but stable, membrane-lacing head over a jet black robe. Aroma of caramel liqueur, hot chocolate sauce, crumbled ‘speculoos’, coffee cream, cinnamon, vanilla, toasted pecan nuts, toasted bread, espresso, hints of cola, bayleaf and ink. Dense and clean onset, sweet with notes of candied dates and pear, moderately carbonated with full, oily mouthfeel; layers of bitter black chocolate, toasted walnut and hard caramel fill the mouth cavity, roasty and bitter but kept in check by toffeeish main sweetness. Coffee bitterness and spiciness are there, but could have been more dominant for me personally, as they are a bit lost in the overall bittersweetness of the malts; whisky-like alcohol warms the end, while bitter black chocolate flavours seem to linger more than the coffee flavours. Utterly solid old school stout with enough roasted bitterness and fortunately no lactose, which in this kind of beer is a plus for me, but I would not have minded a more pronounced coffee profile, as was the case in the two different coffee editions of AleSmith’s Speedway I had at Beerlovers Bar some time before during that same evening.

Draught @ Mig & Ølsnedkeren. Pours black with a brown head. Aroma of roasted malt, caramel, chocolate, oak, bourbon. Flavor is sweet, roast malt, caramel, chocolate, oak, bourbon, alcohol. Full body, soft carbonation, sweet finish with loads of warming alcohol. 211024

[December 2022] Hazy deep red with a frothy pink head and raspberry ripple ice cream on the nose. Tart fruity flavour with a long dry finish

Bottle at home. Pours clear reddish amber, nose is raspberry, funk, hint of raisin, taste is dry, sharp funk, fruity berries.

Panda at home, thanks to Kenneth, 02/09/24. Black with a light tan head that escapes edgewards. Nose is almond, brown sugar melt, easter egg, honey, dark malts. Taste comprises chocolate icing, sugar dusting, honey, vanilla, herbal notes, dark malts. Full bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a balanced kiss of alcohol. Interesting one ... not unpleasant but a little too savoury for my liking ... I wouldn't revisit.