UPDATED: AUG 26, 2019 Bottle at home, split with Rob ... post ashes saving manbrofest, 25/08/19. Black with a decent tan cap. Nose is dark fruits, chocolate, light black peppery spice, brown sugars, rum rip, toffee melt. Taste comprises ripe dark fruits, bitter edge, dates, prunes, tangy dried fruits, mellow rum barrel, brown sugar pinch. Full bodied, fine carbonation , semi drying close with bitter sweet fruit esters and a balanced boost offered. Decent impy affair, the rum is kept well in check without ever getting too sweet climaxing with a balanced lightly tarte but moderately boosty close.

UPDATED: JUN 12, 2019 Dark beer with a thin beige whisp for a head. Bourbon nose. Big thick malt syrup, maple, molasses and lots of rum sugar sweetness. There is a good impy support under there.

Bottle shared with koleminer20. Aroma is rum, sweet dark fruit, roasted malt, some milk chocolate, some booze. Appearance is dark dark brown, light brown head, poured thinnish. Taste is rum, tart, coffee, barrel, dark fruit, mostly an unpleasant tartness. Mouthfeel is medium body, light carbonation, tart dark fruit coffee rum aftertaste. Overall, this isn't very good.

Bottle/ batch 165/206 from trade with UCusty. Good Roma, sweet, malty, barelly ( is that a thing) strong on rum barrel, chocolate. Dark brown black color, no head or lace. Heavy sweet medium bitter flavor. Full body, still, creamy oily mouthfeel, no carbonation, sweet bitter hot finish

Pours opaque coffee sable with a thin tan head. Aroma features rum, roast malt, molasses, smoky wood, and subtle roast coffee notes. Flavor delivers dark fruit, roasted malt, rum, woody, molasses, and subtle roast coffee tones. T’would be hard to improve this one! Firm mouthfeel includes plenty of fizz. All hail Aphrodite, Goddess of Love!

Pours an opaque dark brown almost black like oil with the same type of viscosity and khaki colored head. Rum, oak, vanilla, nuts, chocolate, and candy sweetness on the nose; follow onto the palate. Very complex and full bodied. Finishes with plenty of barrel and chocolate.

(Jackie O’s Rum Barrel Oil Of Aphrodite) Bottle 375 ml at home, served into a snifter, tasted side to side with the Sherry barrel. ABV 11.5% Totally black colour on the body with a small and thin dark brown heas on top, with low retention. Aroma of rum, alcohol, light vanilla, chocolate as it warms up. Taste is intense rum, light soy sauce, strong alcohol, faint roasted malts. Medium body with good carbonation. Pretty good although rather boozy.

Bottle. It poured a black color with a brown head. The aroma was fruity, with raisins, caramel, vanilla, chocolate and rum. The taste was similar to the aroma with more roastiness, caramel, chocolate, rum, wood, fruits and nice warming alcohol. Good stuff.

375ml bottle pours dark brown black with small tan head. Nose is fruity, light minty spice, cola, nutty, brownie and baker’s chocolate. First sip is huge nutty notes up front which give way to fruity cola, some herbal spice and mint, baker’s chocolate and dark brownie. Finishes with some balanced sweetness, light acidity, dark fruits and char, roast dark nutty chocolate.

Bottle to snifter. Thick and oily. Lovely nose of rum barrel aging. Started out fantastic but as it warmed it definitely got a little tart. Shouldn’t have waited so long to drink as it’s definitely started to turn but still pretty good.