Cloudy, yellow with an almost white head. The aroma is lightly malty and a salad of exotic fruits. The body is full but juicy, with low carbonation. The taste is fruity, but with notes of cereal in the background. Decent and quite drinkable, but could be more expressive.

On tap at Ebenezers, Crewe. Pours almost black with a small scummy cream head and good lacing. There’s roasted malts, nuts and oats in the aroma. In the mouth it starts off fairly sweet but a little bitterness comes through after a while. Initial flavours are roasted malts, oats, lactose and dried fruit with hints of ginger and cola coming later. Finish is slightly dry. This is decent.

Panda thanks to Grumbo: Poured golden with a white head. Aroma is lactos, fruity, rhubarb, malts. Taste is sweet fruity, rhubarb, grainy malts, vanilla.

Keg at Craft Beer Co, Clerkenwell. It pours darkest brown to black with a bubbly beige head. The aroma is rather lovely... rich and intoxicating, lovely booze soaked oak, vanilla, dark and dried fruits, fruit cake, black bun, fruity rum really shines through, touch jammy, dark fruits and cola cubes. The taste is very smooth, rich and indulgent, sweet but also quite tangy, raisin, sultana, fig, prune, date, dark roasted malt, slightly charred, touch of tannin, mellow umami, vanilla, bourbon, rum soaked oak, well hidden alcohol, super jammy, raspberry pip and toasted pink marshmallow with a smooth, fruity finale. Fulsome body (but not super heavy), fine+ carbonation and slightly smooth, oily mouth feel. Really nice balance to it. The tangy rum fruit character saves it from being too sweet to heavy.

440 ml can, as Turning Point Cranachatoa Raspberry & Honey Double Stout. Bourbon, Cognac & PX Sherry Barrel Aged, from Left Field Beer webshop, England. ABV is 8.4%. Black colour, small beige head. Aroma of roast malts, mild coffee, raspberries, honey, oak and spirits. Flavour with the same elements, also chocolate, lactose and vanilla. Low bitterness.