Draft at FOB, Rimini, Italy. Pours standard gold with white foam, fine. Aroma is weak grainy. Body is fairly dense with average carbonation. Taste is quite bitter! Finish is long and bitter.

330 ml bottle into snifter, no bottle dating. Pours fairly hazy dark ruby red color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky cream colored head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Dense soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big wood/peat smoke, caramel, honey, brown sugar, brown bread, toasted biscuit, raisin, plum, fig, orange zest, leather, tobacco, brine, herbal, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Nice aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/bready/smoked malts, fruity yeast, honey, orange zest, and light earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big wood/peat smoke, caramel, honey, brown sugar, brown bread, toasted biscuit, raisin, plum, fig, orange zest, leather, tobacco, brine, herbal, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Very mild herbal/grassy hop bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of wood/peat smoke, caramel, honey, brown sugar, brown bread, toasted biscuit, raisin, plum, fig, orange zest, leather, tobacco, brine, herbal, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready/smoked malts, fruity yeast, honey, orange zest, and light earthy hop flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and medium-full body; with a very smooth, creamy/silky/bready, and lightly sticky mouthfeel that is nice. Minimal warming alcohol for 8%. Overall this is a very good English barleywine. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready/smoked malts, fruity yeast, honey, orange zest, and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the mildly bitter/drying finish. This definitely caught me off guard, they could have at least mentioned it was smoked on the label! Tasted like a scotch barrel aged barleywine. Nicely balanced between all flavors, nothing too overwhelming. A very enjoyable and unique offering. I liked it more as I finished the glass.

Bottle at Livingston Club. Cloudy amber color. Lightly spiced bubblegum aroma. Taste is spiced caramel.

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Tap at Drunken Duck vicenza. Hazy orange color, creamy head. Aroma is spiced, flowery, nicely malty and mild fruity, hopped but not a lot. Taste is savory, malty, balanced. Medium body, soft carbonation, easy to drink, clean finish light spiced and floral.

Bottle at home, 28th October 17. Pours black. Aroma is chocolate. Taste is cocoa, chocolate, slight vegetable, slight spice. Not bad, not as much flavour as I expected.

Bottle at Osteria La Taverna Righi, San Marino. Pours cloudy golden orange with a lasting off-white head. Aroma of wheat, yeast, caramel, citrus and light floral spicy notes. Medium plus sweetness, light bitterness, very slightly salty. Light body, slight oily texture, average carbonation.

Bottle @ Ristorante Righi, San Marino. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are wheat malt, yeast, fruits, hops and has a sweet finish.