Bottle at home .. sin4H ...dark black ... small tan head ... soft dusty choclate roast malt nose ...dark dusty chocolate roast malt nose ... dark malts ... soft roast ... rich dark malts .. ligth bitter roast malt

Keg at bow bar.. Light golden amber... Thin white lacing.. Soft funk.. Light dry apple salty fruits

Cask at Pigs Ear 2018, day one, 04/12/18. Light black with a tan cap. Nose is dark fruit rinds, toffee, brown sugars. Taste comprises raisens, mellow roasted bite, dried fruits, toffee. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close. So so ... a touch thin and pedestrian.

Cask gravity at the pigs ear beer festival 2018. A clear nut brown brown coloured, sour milk, lactose, nut brown,. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, nutty, oak. Sour milk, green,. Palate is semi sweet, thin. Waxy finish.

4th December 2018
Pigs Ear. Cask. Opaque dark brown beer, small pale tan head. Smooth palate, semi dry, modest fine carbonation. Thin dark malts, little dark chocolate. Modest fruity dark chocolate. Mild bitterness. Light finish. Mild chocolatey finish. Decent.

Cask at Pigs Ear 2018 - London. Day 1. Pours eep brown with a small, foamy off-white head. Quite bland, dean, some vague cocoa. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Bland dark malt finish. Meh.

Third at Pig's Ear. Black, small foamy head. Roazty aroma, bitter. Taste is straight up roast as well. Seems thin.

Bottle from the Green Shop, Berwick upon Tweed. Love bottles wrapped in paper like this, it makes it feel like Christmas! Love them even more when they have a mysterious inscription like "Dark fur. Horns. Mist."! On opening the bottle inside, there was such a sharp expulsion of gas that it shot the cap into the air with a loud pop. Scared it was a gusher I rushed to the sink, but no - the liquid remained well behaved. I've never seen a crown cap go up like that before, but once I was convinced that the bottle wouldn't attack me in any other way I poured it to reveal a rather murky dark brown brew with a large light brown head. The aroma was an enticing roasty chocolate, and the mouthfeel was also pretty good - smooth with a pleasing frothy fizz. Unfortunately the taste was a little disappointing after this promising start. Sweet milk chocolate was followed by herbal, medicinal, and liquorice hints, and then a heavily roasted, dry finish. I didn't taste any further, horns or mist, but it's possible that I wouldn't recognise them if I did! It's a tad too burnt for my liking, but still pretty good. I'd definitely try more beers from this brewer though, if only because I love those paper-wrapped bottles so much!

28/4/2018. Bottle from CentrAle, Newcastle. Pours black with a big foamy lasting beige head. Aroma of coffee, chocolate, sweet malt, blackcurrant, lactose and a hint of liquorice. Heavy sweetness, light roasted bitterness. Medium body, slick texture, very soft carbonation. Sweetness is quite overpowering but contrasts with increasing bitterness in finish.