UPDATED: FEB 23, 2024 September 17, 2022 - at Beer Merchants Tap - on keg, with harrisoni. Looks a bit like a glass of cola - red-black, nice beige head. Tart, fruity aroma - raisin, prune and coffee - and alcohol, but not 6% - not sure how to describe it, but I loved it, really different, and at cold keg temp too. Taste follows, more roast, a bit less fruity. Light body, very mild carbonation, medium-quick roasty finish, very interesting overroast coffee aftertaste. One of the better beers I'd had in a while.

UPDATED: AUG 27, 2023 Can 44cl. @home poured into a pint glass. Deep amber brown colour with a red hue, thick creamy beige to tan head, good retetion, light lacing. Aroma roasted malt, dark fruits, toffee, liquorice, cocoa powder notes. Taste medium sweet and light bitter, malty, roast, dark fruits, toffee, dark chocolate. Medium body, creamy texture, soft carbonation, smooth sweetbitter aftertaste, lingering malty and chocolate notes, great stuff, very good.

UPDATED: AUG 3, 2023 On tap at the taproom. Dark brown with medium beige head. Malty, some chocolate, dried fruit, prunes, raisins, sweetish. Medium bodied.

UPDATED: JUL 20, 2023 Keg at The Ealing Beer Festival 2023, Ealing, London. A very dark brown/black coloured pour with a thin beige head on top. Sweet, malty, chocolate, plum, dark fruit taste and aroma. Decent stuff but served very cold.

UPDATED: MAY 5, 2023 Draft at Beerheadz Lincoln. Off black colour with a thin tan head. Aroma and taste are malty chocolate and brown sugar. Rich body.

UPDATED: MAR 9, 2023 Can from Hops and Crafts Exeter. Pours very dark ruby with a light beige head. Aroma of chocolate, some raisin, wholemeal bread,a little coffee, leather & liquorice. Taste of more good chocolate, some toffee, prune & a little molasses & coffee. On full side of Medium bodied with a super smooth soft mouthfeel and good carbonation. The finish is nicely dry and sweet with more chocolate, toffee, raisin, prune , molasses and coffee. So good , a classy old style ( pre WW1)mild!

UPDATED: FEB 25, 2023 Half-pint, draught, shared with Finn at Boxcar Brewery & Taproom. Near-black in the glass, spotty lacing, dissipating off-white head. Inviting roasted malty aromas, scent of fruit. Fine balanced taste of mid-sweet malts and dried fruits. Roasted malt-dried fruity finish. Well bodied. Likable. (Bethnal Green, London 09.02.2023).

UPDATED: FEB 24, 2023 Can from Orest: pours dark brown with a beige head. Aroma is somewhat fruity, nutty, malty. Taste is somewhat sweet, low bitterness, not quite a normal mild taste but still good.

UPDATED: FEB 24, 2023 Can, shared by mansquito. Pours dark brown. Raspberry, chocolate, coconut, biscuit. Medium body. Good.

UPDATED: FEB 1, 2023 A black hole of a bottle´ of yesteryear dark mild. Light Porterish demeanour. Very slight bread and butter pudding on nose, without spices Lovely, almost single cream´ mouthful, with butter scotch, fruity hints Not at all over sweet - almost a pleasurable reluctance on swallowing... But swallow I did. Aye..! Hit the spot!