Score
7.24
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Tap. Brown color with small tan ring. Aroma is tobacco, oak sugar, molasses, raisins. Taste is raisins, lots of oak sugar, brandy burn. Medium carbonation. Quite sweet, a bit too unbalanced. Not excellent.
Bottle from Derek. Big on the pit fruit, figs, dark, English pudding. Smells like fruit cake. Gets better as it warms.
Bottle from a trade. Many thanks ruddick! Dark brown/black colour, brown foam. Sweet fruity (notes of berries, figs and plums), spicy (cinamon, cloves) and chocolaty sweetness. Strange beer but not bad.
Bottle - Fig and raisin and toffee. Cloudy copper brown with an off white head. Toffee, fig and raisin and a long finish. Nice.
Bottle thanks to Russell. Pours a cloudy brown with small beige head that lasts. The aroma is dark fruit, caramel, figs. Medium mouth, nice dark fruit, caramel malt, nutmeg, very sweet, very good.
Bottle 750ml. corked.Murky matt medium to dark brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, figs, wood, light spicy. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet with a long duration, dark sweet malt, dark fruit - figs. Body is medium, texture is oily - creamy, carbonation is soft. [20120920]
Bottle. Pours muddy brown with light brown head. Nose/taste of molasses, cinnamon, maple, caramel, figs, dark fruits, brandy barrel and oak. Nice complexity with the cinnamon not overpowering the palate but mixing well with the other flavors. The brandy barrel aging also works well with some distinct brandy notes in the finish. Medium body.