Corked bottle, Stockholm Beer Festival 2007 afterfestival at Per’s
Cloudy amber color; big head (in the decanter); nice lace. Really strange aroma: chemicals factory, some plastic, light barnyard, malt… Flat mouthfeel, some residual sugars, some malt flavor; light fruity flavor too (red grapes?), medium strength, alcohol warmth, winy. Very weird, but if taken in good mood it’s very good.

Bottled. Cloudy reddish amber. Soapy perfumy nose with sme cherries. Medium bodied with soft mouthfeel. Lightly vinous with notes of barnyard and plums. Complex and quite fascinating.

Bottled. A hazy dark orange beer with a thin off-white head. The aroma is sweet with strong notes of fruit - especially peaches, and strong notes of grapes, combined with lighter notes of wood and metal. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of fruit again peaches being strongest combined with notes of wine grapes combined with a rather dusty note - is that the hops? leading to a dry and somewhat woody finish with just a touch of acidity. The mouthfeel is very soft due to low carbonation - it feel more like wine in the mouth, though without the alcohol. I thin just a bit more acidity would make this world class.

A Mes rate: Bottle (unsure of the size) at Chris O’s extravaganza. This is odd stuff but I quite liked it in a similar way that licking a battery is fun. Fruity nose with so so much wooden character. The nose leaves a lingering tinge of paint stripper and creosote that I’m not sure is enjoyable. Can see where Mark’s "licking a fence" quote comes from. Flavour is definitely better but very similar. Tastes of old barrels giving it a lovely woody sourness. Interesting but not amazing.