5.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottled@PBF XI. Black colour, mediumsized brown head. Aroma is roasted malts, some toffee, herbs and slight chocolaty and toasted notes. Flavour is floral, some tobacco and mild chocolaty and toffeeish notes. Toasted and floral aftertaste.

6.6

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle from Ales by Mail, drunk and home. Ebony, opaque with a khaki head. Chocolate-led scent with toffee, savoury liquorice and a slight spicy hop. The bitterness in the taste is as intense as it is unexepcted. The malts taste almost burned. However there’s an underlying sweetness which serves to balance. Palate is fairly thin. A curate’s egg of a beer but it has enough character to hold my interest.

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask at the Guildford Arms. Pours clear golden amber with a thin white head. Aromas of light caramel, passion fruit, malt. Taste is sweet, more tropical fruit. Chewy texture, sweet finish.

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle from Ales by Mail, drunk at home. Sienna brown, hazy, a small khaki head and loadsa carbonation. Earthy hop scent with plum and toffee. A hint of the smoke somewhere in there. Smoke more pronounced in the taste, which starts sweet but quickly turns bitter from the complex hop. Bittersweet finish. Slight body without being too weak. Not overly exciting but pretty damn solid.

6.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Rerate 1.11.2017. Poured near black in color with a thin light brown head. Licorice, milky sweetness and roastedness in aroma. Licorice dominates, light salty notes perhaps, molasses and mild ash. Thin bodied. Up 0.2 from last rating. 9.7.2016: 33cl bottle @PBF XI. Poured dark brown color with a thin off white head. Roasted malty, wood, malts. Flavor has roastedness, chocolate. Thinnish body.

6.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

5.2 cask at the bow... Golden amber... Small white head... Soft sweet floral fruit nose... Light floral fruit.. Pealy wally.. Soft easy fruit

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask at the Bow Bar. Pours clear dark brown with a thick tan head. Aromas of coffee, chocolate, honeycomb. Taste is more coffee, toffee. Sweet, roasty finish

7

Cask at the bow bar. Pours clear amber, nose is malty toffee, passionfruit, taste is similar, sweet.

6.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Cask at the bow bar. Pours clear amber, nose is malty toffee, passionfruit, taste is similar, sweet.

7

Cask at the Guildford arms. Pours black, nose is coffee, chocolate, roasted, taste is roasted coffee, toffee, chocolate.