UPDATED: MAY 27, 2022 Taster at the Hicks Bar @ St Austell's Brewery on 25-May-2022. Dark roasted malt and honey. A nice traditional old ale.

UPDATED: MAR 29, 2020 Brown with a thin foam Nose. Weak, Caramel, spicy, light fruitiness. Taste: Sweetish, caramel, a little dried fruit and closer to the finish coriander appears. The aftertaste. tart, bitter, spicy, wood

UPDATED: DEC 31, 2019 Bottle. Bought whilst on holiday in Cornwall. Poured amber brown with an off-white to beige head. Aroma of caramel, liquorice, dark fruit, touch of vanilla and light roasted coffee notes. Medium sweetness, light bitterness. Medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Pretty decent.

Tap. Pours foggy chestnut brown. Small beige head. Aroma: sourish oak barrel, prunes, dried pear, caramel and toast. Medium body. Taste: light sweet, richly malty. Caramel, toast. Dried fruit, delicate barrel, balancing hop. Good and complex.

UPDATED: MAR 4, 2018 Very dark red, almost brown on pouring. Slight caramel aroma which is stronger when tasted. Hint of corriander too for some intrigue.

Nice dark red/brown colour. Not much smell but a full body real ale with high %. Nice burnt caramel flavours with subtle toffee hints revealed after initial sips. Not an award winning beer but definitely a good solid beer.

Tap at The Warf. Dark amber with small white head. Aroma of wood, malts, roasted, a hint of coffee and raisins. Very mild taste of berries, vanilla, caramel, butter, hint of whiskey. Medium body and medium carbonation.

Draft. Brownish-bronze color. Aroma: good malts, vanilla, butterscotch, whisky, sweet caramel. Taste: oily, malty, a little sweetness, a little wine, vanilla, caramel, butterscotch, dried figs.

Cask at The Chainlocker & Shipwrights, Falmouth. It pours deep red - brown with a decent light tan head. The nose is bitter - sweet, toffee, fruit cake, light bubble gum, candied peel, earth, wood and leather. The taste is firmly bitterness, earthy, leather, drying, damp leaves, some dried fruit sweetness, toasted nut, alcohol boost with a lingering dry, woody finish. Medium body and fine, foamy carbonation. Decent enough old style old, not a huge amount of depth, but enjoyable enough.

Bottled, 500ml from Tesco in Banbury. Copper with faintest of heads, quite flat. There is a toffee, vanilla flavour from the start with this with a fruity tartness alongside. The alcohol shows through what is a body bordering on thinnish. Certainly not Barley Wine though. A bit mixed up for me but okay.