UPDATED: JAN 1, 2022 355 ml bottle, 2021 Vintage, label says 11.2 % alcohol. Clear amber golden colour with a thin off-white head. Sweet aroma with caramel malts, liqourice, nuts, red berries and fruits. Taste is sweet. Full bodied. Lasting sweet finish with lingering red fruits and dark malts. Light booze. Very enjoyable.

UPDATED: NOV 28, 2021 Bottle, 0.355l. Aroma of caramel, dried fruit and whiskey. Pours cloudy brown color with thick soapy tan-like head, fair lacing and sparkling appearance. Taste starts with sweet caramel and toasted malt, following is dried fruity, earthy and herbal with warm, alcoholic and mild spicy mouthfeel and light bitter finish. Full body, syrupy texture and lively carbonation in palate. Old but not obsolete…

UPDATED: OCT 23, 2021 2017 bottle. 13.6% ABV. Brown with a quickly disapating tan head. Aroma is bourbon and dark fruits. Taste is overwhelming of the bourbon barrels for aging. Slight aftertaste is dark fruits. The bourbon overtakes any chances of an alcohol taste. I've been looking forward to finding this beer for years. High quality but bourbon sweetness is too much for me. Tastes almost like a barleywine.

UPDATED: OCT 16, 2021 Bottle. 2018. 12%. Master of Malt. Light haze on a dark copper colour. Wispy off white foam. Nose has walnut and dried fruit. Caramel. Hint of chocolate. Some wet wood and cardboard notes. Taste is pretty sweet and Sherry like, with a leafy and earthy hop bitterness. Smooth mouthfeel with foamy carbonation drinks easy at the ABV. Lingering leafy bitterness to finish. Nice enough but maybe I was expecting more depth.

UPDATED: SEP 24, 2021 2014 vintage. 1 finger beige head, brown-red body. Nose: Caramel, pudding, figs, raisins and dark bread. Taste: Caramel, figs, pudding, malt, raisins, fudge, alcohol, pumpernickel-bread, dark bread. Semi-long ending with some bitterness.

UPDATED: SEP 11, 2021 Bottle sample at a tasting. Clear bronze with beige head. The aroma has notes of alcohol, oxidized, caramel, honey. The flavor is sweet and mild bitter with notes of alcohol, oxidized, honey, caramel. Full-bodied.

UPDATED: AUG 27, 2021 Bottle. Pours slightly murky deep amberish brown. Nose is intense sweet toffee and caramel, sweet malty, wood, figs, dried fruits. Tastes strong in malts, sweet, caramel, dry toffee, woody, warm booze, hint of vanilla. Solid slow sipper.

UPDATED: AUG 24, 2021 2018 355ml bottle at 12%. Pours hazy ruby brown with a small head. Aroma is slightly woody caramel and toffee. Taste has woody caramel and toffee with dried fruits on the finish. A little alcohol on the aftertaste.

UPDATED: AUG 21, 2021 Bottle, 2018 vintage at 12%, online from Master of Malt. Pours clear reddish brown, with fine beige foam. Aroma: malty, caramel, woody, figs, booze. Taste: moderate sweet & bitter, sticky, malty, dried fruits, caramel, toffee. Medium body with fine carbonation

UPDATED: APR 17, 2021 Bottle picked up from Biervana, Munich, and consumed at home Friday 16th April 2021 listening to Steve Lamaqs Evening Session on 6Music, we had a Lamb and also Chicken Jalfrezi Curry tonight. 2015 vintage, this pours dark brown or more accurately clear mahogany in colour with an off white head. Nice aroma, complex with an earthy hoppy edge, a little hint of spice, dried warm leather, dried peel fruits, wet wood. Flavours similar i.e. dried fruit, wet woodland, rustic earthiness, caramel and toffee, leather, this is really, really good, really nice mouthfeel, no harshness at all from the significant abv, it tastes like a lovely aged Barley Wine.