Bottle from the Low Cost Beer online shop. Pours clear golden with a thin white head. Aromas of ripe banana and spice, some sweet bread. Taste is sweet, bread and spice. Light sweet finish.

Can from Beer 52 – drank at home. Pours almost black with a vigorous but transient beige head (became a lighter tan colour when it settled), and good lacing. The aroma has roasted malts and figs with hints of liquorice. Figs again to the fore in the mouth, plus roasted malts, with bittersweet notes and traces of dark fruits and chocolate. Some woody aging apparent as well. Finish is bittersweet. This is rather nice – though it is a bit of a gimmick.

[33cl can from Beer52.] A glossy mahogany coloured pour with a ring of beige head, rather nice colour, but very flat; odd vegetal aroma; strange taste as well, with a creamy body ; and a little burnt grain bitterness to finish. Odd.

330ml can via Beer52: BB 21st March 2024. Drank at home in the early hours of 27th April 2023. Poured into my Gordon's thistle shaped glass, it looked good; black with a thin tanned head. Ground coffee in the nose and taste, I have decided that Fava beans are not for me and this beer isn't either, nearly poured it down the sink.

[33cl can from Beer52, yet another of their inhouse beers.] A cola coloured pour with a thin beige head; the oak barrels are apparent in the aroma; rather thin and sweet in the mouth with some vanilla and chocolate; and a rather syrupy finish. Poor.

[33cl can from Beer52.] A pale straw coloured pour with a flat look after the immediate disappearance of the white froth; light grassy hop aroma; a grainy taste with a little bite; and a bland finish. Seems like whoever wrote the blurb on the can hadn't tasted the beer.

Large tight white head stayed on clear golden coloured body. Clove, banana & malt aroma. Medium bodied, soft on the tongue with a lively back & cloying aft. Malt, banana & spice tastes with sweet fruity finish. Standard.

Tight white head on a clear amber coloured still body. Malt, biscuit & grain aroma. Medium bodied, lightly carbonated & fuller on the back with a cloying aft. Malt, tobacco, grain & cereal tastes. Poor