UPDATED: JAN 7, 2022 Bottle as Festive Christmas Porter. Mild roasted malt and caramel aroma. Clear dark brown color with minimal tan head. Really watery and mild taste, subtle chocolate and roasted malt, bit more caramel. Thin body, watery, soft carbonation. Bet it would be better on cask.

UPDATED: NOV 1, 2021 Bottle of 'Festive Christmas Porter' which redirected me here. Santa is well pissed off with such label swapping. Pours a dark brown. small beige head, minor retention. Aroma of liquorice, cherries, chocolate, toast. Interesting. Taste is light roast, chocolate, mixed dried fruit and cherries, minerals. Moderate roasty bitterness at the end. Light bodied so loses a bit of depth. A bit mixed but overall I enjoyed it.

UPDATED: MAY 7, 2021 Cask at Shrewsbury Arms, Stafford. Pours a dark red-brown with a small cream head. The nose is creamy with added chocolate. There is a rough bitterness in the mouth with roasted malts and liquorice to the fore. Underneath there are molasses, cherries and chocolate. Finish is bitter – almost sour. A pretty good porter.

UPDATED: APR 18, 2021 Rocky light brown head left a spotty cover on deep mahogany coloured still body. Malt & dark chocolate aroma. Smells delicious! Medium bodied, smooth & creamy with a lighter clean finish. Malt, liquorice, chocolate & nutty tastes with a fruity finish. Proper Old School Porter - Excellent

UPDATED: NOV 7, 2020 Review of a beer drunk at the Bridge Inn, Burton in March 2004. Near black with a tan head. Aroma of roast malt, and the taste adds some coffee and toffee but its a bit watery.

UPDATED: AUG 23, 2020 Festival of beer Pours a dark brown colour with a beige coloured ale Notes of roasted toffee caramel and malt coffee

500ml bottle in 2013. Dark brown with a vanishing beige head. Aroma of chocolate, raisins and earthy grain. Flavour is initially decent, with dark malt and dried fruit, but then turns quite unpleasant with astringent and wet grainy notes. Very thin body.

UPDATED: NOV 6, 2019 Bottle, from historic notes. Sourced from a shop in Burton. Poured almost black with a beige head. Looked the part. Aroma of roasted malt, chocolate, dark fruit, hint of berries, liquorice and ash. Moderate roasted bitterness. Quite light bodied. Not bad.

UPDATED: AUG 1, 2019 Аромат немного водянистый, немного жженка легкая, возможны намеки на вино. Цвет классический ничего особенного, пенка средняя. Вкус разочаровал. Очень горькое причем не ощущается особенности солода и его шоколадные нотки. При глотке немного жженки и изюма. И собственно и все. Горькое питкое и не вкусное.

UPDATED: MAY 29, 2019 50cl bottle from Pastures Discount Foods. Thick creamy beige head. Clear deep amber pour.