Bottle at home in London. Pours black-brown with a big, beige foam head. Lots of ashy roast on the nose, baking cocoa. Light to medium sweet flavor, plenty of burnt malts, a bit of earth, baking cocoa, alcohol. Light to medium bodied with fine, creamy carbonation. Fairly bitter to finish, lots of baking cocoa, burnt malts, burnt grass, earth, light warmth, burnt sugars. Overall it seems a little thin. There is some interesting character, but the depth of flavor is a little shallow and the bitterness seems a bit out of balance. OK.

Fles 33cl in Pénestin. 5,6%. Ambrée, english ale-achtig, wat bitter, wat vlak, wat drogig. Licht hop & fruit. (7-2012).

Orange beer, slight haze and a ton of deposit on the bottom; very carbonated beer, lively raising a huge, yellowish head, leaving lace. Very fresh smelling, like young shoots or freshly drying hay, grassy. Maybe a bit flowery, but no honey traceable in the nose. Surprisingly bitterish taste, more spicey than hoppy, or even a bit pharmaceutical. Little fruity flavour, just a whiff of sweetness in the palate. Good balance if anything. Light to medium bodied, not thin. Carbonisation is obvious in the MF. Aftertaste reminds me of some obscure liqueur. Quite nice beer, very dry and attenuated for a honey beer, and a lovely label to boot. Despite being a few months past the BBd, no trace of oxidation - and in a clear glass bottle at that!

Amber to peach, slim white head. End of bottle is more yeast than beer. Woody nose, hardboard, spicey. Acidic, very fresh flowery taste. Some citrus, corresponding to the acidity. Acidity takes a little adstringent edge; dry-out effect. Medium bodied. An interesting, ideosyncratic beer. It makes one curious about its contents, rather than wanting another.