Bottle 27,5 cl. Courtesy of maneliquour. Pours a clear dark brown with an orange hue and a small beige head. Phenollic aroma with subtle roast. Medium body only, dark, dry roast and a bitter finish. Very British meaning I need some bette hops and a more distinct malt profile. 030612

Sampled from a 9.3 oz brown bottle this beer poured a black color with a very large creamy dark tan head that lingered and left decent lacing. The aroma was chocolate, malted milk and vanilla. The flavor was very bitter roasty malts, cocoa, malted milk, vanilla and faint notes of licorice and wood. The finish was long and bitter with lingering cocoa, malted milk and roasty malts. Thick and creamy body. Initially I really liked it but my enjoyment diminished with the more that I had.

Brown bottle, 500ml, best before Jun 2007, drank 1st Feb 2007. Poured into a 0.2 litre Hannan Alt striaght glass (3 times). Not a clue where this was brewed or bottled, Courage/John Smith’s/Scottish/Inbev, etc. They like to keep you guessing, I believe it will be brewed in Bedford soon, this could have been a test brew for all I know, or made in Tadcaster? Good amber body, slightly off white head which didn’t stay on any of the three pours. Mixed fruit aroma, apple/pear/orange orchard smell, malty biscuits too. Hops, yeast and malts, in other words, it tastes like a British Bitter, which it should do. Not the weight of 4.8% alcohol in the mouthfeel, not really watery, but no depth either. A slight lingering of the overal taste but nothing overly strong. Anyway, where ever it eventually settles down at, I hope they don’t mess too much with it. Never a favorite of mine (cask or otherwise), it is never-the-less not a bad beer and my scores are truthful, even though it is an Inbev owned company.

Dark yellow colour with a frothy off white head. Mild malty caramel aroma. Moderate sweet malt flavour with some caramel. A lot better than expected. Breakfast beer :-)
[Bottle at Tess Riley’s in Liverpool, England]

Nice and muddy dark brown, albeit without much head. the aroma is deep, fruitiy with an almost cedary spiciness. The body is fairly full, though that only makes it moderate by modern impy standards. The flavours are rich and roasty with an underlying fruitiness. Dry, woody, hoppy finish with a healthy amount of roast and some alcohol late.

275mL bottle, pours black with a medium tan head. Aroma of rich roasted malt, butterscotch, burnt espresso and milk chocolate. Flavour of chocolate malt, roasted malt, butterscotch, burnt espresso and some slight metallic notes. Medium-bodied for an impy. stout with a slightly metallic, roasty finish. Very nice.

Bottle. Piney hops, coffee, chocolate and spice aroma. Rather unique aroma for the style. Cloudy dark brown with a large tan head, and some chunky light colored sediment. Coffee, ashy roasted malt, earth, alcohol, a little fruit and spicy hops. There’s one of those crazy aroma memory things going on that I can’t place... drives me nuts when that happens.