Cask Pint – JDW Fest Autumn 2011 in Nov 2011 - Black in colour. Very Malty; toffee, treacle, vanilla, roasty malts, hint of chocolate. Hoppy; some hop bitterness. Sweet treacle toffee roast malty throughout balanced by bitter hops. Tasty. Very Drinkable. Good Stout! (2011-11-09)

Dark ale with a toffee aroma, the flavour is toffee an treacle with a fetish slightly hopped finish. Nicely done, although it is inevitably rather cloying.

Black with ruby reflexes, clear beer, minimal tanned head. Aroma: milk chocolate, toffe, cream, dark fruits (like dried plum). Taste: chocolate, light coffe, light sweet, light sour. Reminds me of guiness. Palate: really smooth, low carbonated, kinda watery. Overall: pleasant sessionable stout. Reminds me of guiness with better aroma ;)

On cask @ the Stockbridge Tap. General impression is that this was a stout with a lovely treacle aroma. The taste was a bit short in the mouth but it is very low in alcohol, so overall quite impressed.

Full flavoured treacle toffee ale, so much so it is like eating the very sweets it copies.

5th October 2011
Liberty Bounds Spoons. Clear deep red - brown beer. Tidy tan head. Smooth semi dry palate. Moderate carbonation. Good toffee and indeed, treacle. Medium sweet. Dark chocolate underneath. Sublte red fruits. Quite well joined up, finishes smooth. Decent.

Cask-condtioned at Penderal’s Oak (JDW), Holborn October 2011. Near black with a slight, off-white head. Sweet, powdered milk chocolate, camp coffee and truffles., with a vaguely bitter finish. Too sweet for me.

Cask, The Larry (JDW), Nuneaton. Black with tan rim. Heavily fudgy nose nothing like beer but hugely sniffable nonetheless. Immediate, palate-crushing toffeeness like Eclairs, Toffos. Sour Duchesse De Bourgogne underrcurrents. Long gone. Undrinkably, red wine sour. All the better for being a bit off?

Wetherspoons Stockton. If you like tia maria then you will like this. Smells and tastes of tia maria just thinner. Like a lot of novelty beers - it is ok for one but no more.

[Cask at the Hope Tap (JDW), Reading] Chestnut-black with a large tan head and a slight fizz. Chocolate, caramel and vanilla throughout. Maybe a hint of liquorice too. A little roastiness prevents it from being too sweet and sticky. A decent pudding beer, but I don’t think you’d want to drink pints of the stuff! Nevertheless, I rather enjoyed it.