<i>Cask @ Volo Cask Days 2007</i>: Poured lighter than the regular Dark, almost a ruby/copper sort of deal, with average head. Aroma matches the profile I found in the Dark of roasted caramel malts with hints of toffee, but you can pull that vanilla out already. The flavour is actually quite nice, still fairly simplistic, but providing a good dose of roasted malts, toffee, and in this case, vanilla beans! Actually preferable to the regular, good work.

[773-20071020] Cask @ Volo Cask Days 2007 (Toronto, ON). Chocolate milk and vanilla bean aroma with some floral notes. Hazy, dark brown orange body with a quick creamy off-white head. Very nice vanilla dark roast chocolate flavour. Smooth vanilla medium body without the bitterness. Nice and smooth.

Cask days 2007. Cloudy medium-dark brown, thin head. Nose is caramel, vanilla, baking cookies. Flavor is slightly sour malt, vanilla, lighter cherry, sweetish vanilla finish.

<b>Cask</b>. <i>At Volo Casks Days ’07</i>. I wasn’t sure I had this, but I found my slightly blurry scribbled notes, so here goes. Oddly light brick red pour, small head - isn’t this normally darker? Dry roast aroma somewhat dominated by strong vanilla - but at least it’s not bourbon! The taste seemed a little better balanced, the normal Hockley dark roast malt, mild plum and dry herbal hops balanced and perked up nicely by fresh sweet vanilla - average body and so on, medium finish - a nice change, still a solid beer.