22oz bottle pours out a dark amber topped with a small ring of a head. Nose is odd some metallic notes pit fruit and sweetness. Taste is more of the metallic vegetable notes and a odd end.

22oz bomber pours with a mahogany colored body that supports a dark tan head. The aroma is very mild with malts, some fruity esters and a can of mineral metal like old pennies. The taste offers up sweetness, apples and apricot sweet fruity esters and then it moves into some roasted malts and an off-putting tart sort of metallic note. This isn’t working all that well.

Bottle at Endo’s house, from Newport Avenue Market Bend, 24/05/13, listed as 8.6% on the label. Light black with a thin tan head. Nose is dank hops, cocoa, bitter fruit notes, damp clothes. Taste comprises dark toffee, biscuit, light hops, sugars. Medium bodied, moderate carbonation, dryish finish with light hop notes. A poor showing for a CDA, more akin to a sub par stout, no balance, no hops, no pine. NO !!!