UPDATED: JAN 4, 2022 Pours to a clear red / brown. Strong light shows up quite a lot of floaters. Head quickly dissipates to 3mm. Cherry on the nose. Mouth is sweetness and then alcohol. Nice hit of bitterness and cherry lingering for a while. Alcohol is a bit biting at the end. A bit of a calpol / cough syrup vibe to this. Actually kind of well rounded. Interesting and ok for a once off.

UPDATED: JAN 1, 2022 Fles 33cl thuis. Caramel, rood fruit, toffee, melkchocolade, sherry, pruim, kers, licht boozy, vrij droog, sticky mouthfeel. (1-1-2021).

UPDATED: OCT 28, 2021 Dark brown with a tan head. Aroma is slightly malty. No taste upfront but aftertaste is caramel, toffee, and malts.

UPDATED: SEP 14, 2021 Bottle from Beers of Europe, online. Pours a murky amber-brown, with small beige head. Aroma is sweet and boozy with notes of sherry, fruitcake, oak, toffee. Taste is malty with caramel and toffee, sherry, wood, dried fruits, booze. Medium to full bodied Heady stuff, I like it.

UPDATED: JUN 5, 2021 Pours out a nice reddish-gold. Brightly fruity nose; cherries, port, fruitcake almost. Sweet. The taste is entirely different. Heavy and bitter. I can understand the name. It feels like you're drinking hard liquor with qualities of a rum or vodka. The carbonation is relatively minimal, and the finish is definitely dry. While the body isn't terribly think and rich, I wouldn't necessarily consider this a 'light' beer. Not my favorite, truthfully, but I guess it meets expectations.

UPDATED: MAY 3, 2021 Bottle from Big C Liquors in Winter Park, FL. Aroma is dark fruits, sherry, prunes, oak. Taste is bready, fruit bread, prunes, yeasty, malty, vitamins, red bananas, finishes with a classic English bitter note. Somewhere between a Scotch Ale and an classic olde English one. Not my tempo.

UPDATED: MAR 26, 2021 bottiglia 33 cl, schiuma beige fine persistente, color ambrato carico limpido, al naso Big Babol e solvente, in bocca malto caramello zucchero di canna uvetta, carbonazione moderata, corpo leggero, alcool troppo invadente, dolce con amaro moderato. Secca nel finale. Non è la mia prima dello stile ma questa…. Pericolosamente bevibile? Che fatica! Mah…. c. Cantina della birra 26.03.21

UPDATED: MAR 3, 2021 330ml bottle from Beers of Europe - Deep ruby body, lasting white top. Nose is boozy cake fruit, lots of sherry notes and maltiness present. Taste starts with a warming alcohol burn, the fruits and malty taste hits you after. Proper old ale character this, with a warming side from the ABV.

UPDATED: FEB 21, 2021 Finally grabbed to get new region. Cherry brown pour some head and thin alcohol film. Nose is cherry and tobacco. Tastes similar, some toffee some booze. Nice throwback brew

UPDATED: FEB 4, 2021 Old rating from 14-06-15 - 330ml bottle from Dunell's in Jersey. Pours brown with a off white foamy head. Aromas & tastes of toffee, dark fruits, herbs, banana & a fair amount of alcohol. Medium body. Sweet moderate bitter finish. I didn't enjoy this at all & it was hard to finish