UPDATED: DEC 13, 2021 Bottle at home, 13th December 2021. Pours a chestnut brown and clear. Aroma is caramel and nutty. Taste is caramel, roasted malts, smooth, light burnt sugar and molssses. It’s delicious.

UPDATED: NOV 18, 2021 Bottle from House of Trembling Madness. I've lost my notes for this one but do recall it has intense chocolate and caramel notes in the aroma and taste with a nice smooth body, leaving it both rich and moreish but not too heavy at the same time. An excellent beer.

UPDATED: DEC 10, 2020 Bottle from House Of Trembling Madness. Clear ruby/amber body with a thin beige head. Low carbonation. Patchy lacing. Aroma of dumpling, coffee and rust. Flavour of nuts, copper and stewed tea. Medium body with a slick texture. Soft fizz. A delicious beery beer. I’d love to try this on cask.

UPDATED: DEC 25, 2018 Bottle at home in Hackney - sourced from the Trembling Madness in York. Pours clear reddish brown with an amble, frothy khaki head. Really nicely rounded, lots of leathery berries, a little earthy hop, toasted toffee and leaves. Light to medium bodied with fine carbonation. Balanced finish, moderate English yeast, well toasted town bread, burnt caramel. Great fun.

Bottled. A dark brown beer with a brown head. The aroma has notes of caramel, malt, and bread. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, and bread, leading to a dry finish.

Pours a dark brown color with a small pillowy head that lasts throughout. Light aromas of caramel, nuts and some chocolate. Mild (thus the name) flavors of caramel, nuts, chocolate, a little smoke and musty hay/grass. Medium-bodied with a fairly bitter finish. A pleasant beer from start from finish

Bottle. Very dark brown in colour, with slightly reddish hue. Very malty; roasty malts, chocolate, caramel. Hoppy; earthy grassy hops. Porterish in style. Roasty chocolate malty balanced by hop bitterness throughout. Dry mildly bitter finish. Tasty. Liked this a lot. Nice beer! (2009-02)

500ml bottle at home, present from Stuartyboy, roast malt, caramel aroma, very deep chestnut brown with a good bubbly beige head, coffee, chocolate flavour, subtle smoke, creamy, earthy malty aftertaste.

500ml bottle at home. Pours dark brown black with a dissipating off white head. Aroma of malt with some roast. Bitter sweet finish.

Nowt like a few pints of ghost on a dark winter’s night in York. Bottle doesn’t quite do it but still good.