UPDATED: JAN 3, 2022 Can. Pours dark brown, beige head. Nose is roasted malts, chocolate, vanilla, light coconut. Tastes roast and chocolate, medium sweetness, ashy, coffee, light vanilla, maybe a hint of coconut greasiness. Well balanced medium-strength/sweet porter somewhere between drier cousins and pastry versions.

UPDATED: AUG 1, 2021 Sample courtesy of Grumbo, cheers! Aroma is dark fruits and vanilla. Taste is chocolate, vanilla and coconut. Nice.

UPDATED: JUL 12, 2021 Panda at home, thanks to SIHG, 12/07/21. Black with a decent tan head. Nose is dark malts, ashen tones, hint of plastic, cocoa powder, burnt toffee. Taste comprises chocolate, vanilla, dark malts, hint of coconut, brown sugar dusting. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, light drying close. Decent enough porter.

UPDATED: JUL 8, 2021 Panda 🐼 at home thanks to SHIG. An opaquie dark brown coloured pour with a lasting whispy light tan head. Aroma is coco, cola cubes, nutty malts, almond. Flavour is composed of fizzy cola cubes, nutty, cocoa, coco powder, little thin. Palate is fizzy, light grainy high carbonation.

UPDATED: JUL 22, 2021 22/7/2021. Can sample courtesy of SHIG, cheers! Pours very dark brown with a small bubbly off-white to beige head. Aroma of chocolate, roasted malt, caramel, vanilla, nut, ash, hint of berry and coconut. Medium sweetness and light roasted bitterness. Medium body, gently fizzy. Pretty decent.

UPDATED: JUN 27, 2021 Can: Poured a deep brown black with a tan color head. Aroma is roasted malts, cocoa, chocolate. Taste is chocolate, cocoa, super malty biscuit, earthy.

UPDATED: MAY 29, 2021 440ml can from Sainsbury's. Black beer with a very thin and short lived tan head. Lots of chocolate, coffee, vanilla aromas and flavours. But not much coconut, and I'm OK with that

UPDATED: MAY 27, 2021 440ml can purchased from Sainsbury's in Irvine and sampled on the 16th May 2021. Murky black mahogany in colour with a quick effervescent tan head that vanished in under a second - got to be the quickest dissipating head that I've come across! No lacing. Light malty aroma with vague hints of dark chocolate and coconut. Thin watery mouthfeel. Dark malts give a burnt maltloaf base with notes of dark chocolate, vanilla and light coconut. Cannot detect any hop resins in the aftertaste. Finish is malty with dark chocolate, roast malt, vanilla and again weak coconut water evident in the mouth. A bit on the thin side and lacking a bit of oomph.

UPDATED: MAY 16, 2021 Black with a frothy tan head, vanilla, coconut, chocolate aroma, light to meduim body, smooth light roast malt, chocolate, light coconut and vanilla.

UPDATED: MAR 7, 2021 440ml can from Oddbins: Very dark brown, almost black with an opaque body & a large, foamy head that's tan brown with a creamy surface & starts just under 3cm tall before reducing to about half a cm tall. It's a sweet nose with coconut & some vanilla on top of milk chocolate notes & dark malts with some hazelnut /praline in there too. The taste is dominated by dark malts, chocolate & the coconut from the nose. It's a little more nutty at the end than it was with the nose, some of the praline again coming through strong. It's smooth beer though with a medium body, subtle carbonation & plenty of sweetness throughout.