UPDATED: FEB 7, 2024 Bottle @ Grandmother w family (backlog). Appearance: pours slightly hazy brown with ok off-white soapy head and lacing. Aroma/taste: barley, bread, caramel, light molasses, light chocolate, light alcohol, oak, port and fruity notes. Palette: strong malty and medium barrel aroma, average carbonation, medium to full body, medium to notable sweetness, balanced by a medium bitterness, average to long duration, light sweet finish and an oily texture. Overall: Enjoyable BW

Lagrat 8 år. Nästan ingen kolsyra. Massor av russin, ekfatstoner, portvinet från fatet märks tydligt, lite alkoholhetta. Supergod!

Bottle @ home, Cellared seven years. Cloudy brown with almost no head. Aroma is very vinous with dried fruits, vanilla, fudge, raisins, plums, milk chocolate. Medium body, flat yet smooth texture. Flavors of vanilla, dried fruits, yeast, vinous raisins and plums,, caramel, fudge red fruits. Finish is stale with lingering leather and some paper.

Bottle 0,375 2010 edt. @ Kristian. Pours clear amber, no head. Sweet, dried berries, vanilla, caramel, malts, chocolate. Flat carbonation and oily texture.

Bottle@bar36 brown. Smooth ripe fruityness, malty, almondy semisweet nose. Med bodied, smoothsubtle flavoured. Not too sweet icky anything, just nice. This has a lot to offer. Lots of flavours, not that intense, explosive or overrunning, just sorta there. Spices, complex.

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375ml Bottle - Copper brown in colour. Toffee, dates, plums, syrup and some earthy notes in the aroma. The taste is moderately sweet with notes of toffee, daim, dates, prunes and apples. Not really tart to my tastes which was partly what I was expecting after it had aged a while.

Hazy dark brown with a small off-white head. Aroma is caramel, wood and malt. Taste is Apple, caramel and malt.

Looks..murky, slick brow syrup, no head. Smells..big caramel, boozy christmas cake, dark honey & some choc. Tastes..sweet caramel, honey, a little liqueur/fortified wine like, boozy dried fruits and a little alcohol heat.

375ml bottle, batch 159, hazy brown-ruby hue, with no head. Sweet mild port wine liquor, corky red wine, subtle whisky, faint prune juice nose, with some faint port wine tannin, woody, candied black cherry, fruitcake, dark dried fruit, raisin pie, mild brandyish oak barrel, faint prune sauce accents, and a subtle brown chocolate, toasted, caramel, bread, roasted malt, light toffee note in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a warmth syrupy liquorish port wine, prune juice, brandyish, dark dried fruit, raisiny, woody, sweet corky port wine tannin, raisin pie, faint oak barrel, phenolic boozy character, with some fruitcake, subtle chocolate, candied orange blood peel, faint toffee, caramel, toasted, bread, roasted malty flavours, leading towards a warming prune juice, port wine tannin, raisiny, brandy liquorish finish.

0,375l bottle @ Pikkulintu. Pours clear dark brown with a nonexistent head. Aroma is malts, caramel and hops. Flavor is sweet malts, caramel, dark fruits, alcohol and some hops. Pretty nice.