Bottle. Dark brown with a coat of beige head. Aroma of chocolate and oranges, some tropical fruit and a little pine. Slightly sweet with mocha flavours, marmalade oranges, a touch of grapefruit. Dry finish with modest bitterness. Pleasant, easy-going beer. Neither the malt flavours nor the bitterness are quite enough to match the citrus aromatics.

Pours gold with a small head.Nose shows some floral and grassy hops along with some biscuit-like malt and a bit of alcohol.Pretty similar flavours really; spicy, grassy hops, some grapefruit, a bit of bready malt and an assertive bitterness in the slightly metallic finish.A bit too much carbonation.

Bottle. Clear golden amber with a lasting small white head. Aroma is floral and peppery with honey and bread. Pale, slightly bready malt, a touch of honey, some apricot. Bittersweet with a dry finish where the bitterness creeps up. A bit austere for me.

Pours hazy brown with a large, fading head.Nose shows chocolate, some harsh alcohol, a fair bit of roasted malt and a soapy character.Flavours follow along the same lines; chocolate, plain roasted malt, hot alcohol.Could use more carbonation.A couple of issues with this one.

Pours very dark brown with a fading head.Nose shows inviting roasted malt and sweet milk chocolate. Perhaps a hint of roasted coffee. Very moreish.Coffee is more prominent as a flavour with some soft roasted malt behind. Maybe too much coffee considering how mild the base beer is.Body feels a bit watery.

Pours amber with a large lasting head.Nose shows funk, lemon juice, soft floral notes, apples and pears.Flavours are a surprise, focussing on malt rather than acidity or funk. Just a faint lemon note before some nondescript malt enters, finishing slightly sweet due to the absence of bitterness.Carbonation is a bit full on.

(Bottle). Darkish cola brown with no head. Aroma is a mix of vinegar, smoke, wood and hints of sweet over-ripe fruit. Medium body with a slight tingle of carbonation. The flavour is dominated by a sourness that is initially quite shocking but rather quickly grows on you: part vinegar, part citrus and part very green apples. This somewhat balanced by some malty sweetness and hints of spice. Overall this is very unusual and I am glad I have tasted it but don’t expect I will choose it again. Beer has come along way in 500 years!

Pours dark amber with a massive head.Nose shows honey with dry bark characters, soft spicy notes and a little bready malt.Flavours instead focus of grainy malt and honey, with little else to pick things up. Some spicy hops.Body feels a bit too light.Could be a an ideal spring quaffer.

Bottle. Clear darkish amber with a lasting white coat. Aroma is vinous with interesting, vaguely medicinal honey. The aroma doesn’t really signal the power of the honey which dominates initially. There’s only a breath of sweetness, then is leathery, floral and spicy. There’s some light roasty almost coffee-like malt flavours underneath too and after that first wallop of honey the white grapey flavours come though again. Low carbonation. Interesting texture - silky, surprisingly light-bodied and there’s no overt alcohol at all, but it somehow feels every bit of its 13.7%. Didn’t like this as much as some of the other recent releases - the honey is very full on relative to the beer - but again it’s striking how "finished" these one-offs seem to be.