Bottle shared at Leightons place. Many thanks to Daniel Osprey for this one. An oily ruby red, mahogany brown coloured pour with a halo of tan head. Aroma is jammy fruits, cake, salt, earthy, boozy fruit, some age. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, jammy fruit, cake, smooth, oak, mellow boozy. Palate is semi sweet, thick jammy, lowish carbonation.. Little bit aged.

UPDATED: JUN 1, 2019 2012 bottle thanks to Dan. It pours darkest brown to black with a small tan head. The aroma is sweet, sticky, cacao, toffee, caramel, butterscotch pudding, chocolate cake, boozy tang and earth. The taste is bitter - sweet, dry roasted malt, charred, tangy, earthy, toothy, cognac, oak, dried fruits, dried fruits, fruit cake, boozy heat and tar with a drying finish. Full body and fine, prickly carbonation. Punchy stuff.

On tap @ Borefts 2012. This is a dark deep brown one with a small bubbly almost transparent brown top. Lovely cognac-barrel aroma here. Some alcohol and sweet roasted malts. Strong dark licorice and nutty chocolate tones. Smells really nice this. it's definitely warming the old stomach this but not in an alcoholic way. Woody dry in the flavor with tones of oak, vanilla and hedge. Really dry finish. No noticeable alcohol in this. Enjoyable all the way! 30.09.2012

Nice full bottle, 5 years old. Black pour. Aroma of red grape, vinous oak, cognac booze, mild tart and coffee. Taste has strong cognac notes, with vinous red grape, oak, tannines, chocolate, coffee, mild licorice and a boozy grapey finish. This matured quite nicely. Strong tasty beer.

33 cl bottle (filled to the rim) @ home, bottled Sept. 2012. Black color. Light brown head, not much and quickly disappearing. Aroma’s of booze, fruit, cognac, light umami. Retronasal it’s fruit, sweet, wood, light cognac/vinous, not so boozy. Flavor is moderate sweet, chocolatey, boozy. Alcohol is warming. Body is medium. Low carbonation. Finishes with light roast, bitter chocolate. Probably a bit past its prime, but still very enjoyable.

Bottle shared by Scotty001. Black with small light tan head. Big sweet syruppy malts. Big alcoholic sweet licorice. Big sweet, light bitter. Medium body, almost no carbonation. Alcoholic sweet finish.

Bottle shared. Almost black with short lasting beige head. Quite some dried berries, vanilla, cognac is there but not overpowering, roasted malts and toffee. Blackberries are very strong here. Some ash. Medium sweet and over medium bitter with quite some alcohol. Over medium bodied with slick feel and low carbonation.

Bottle shared at Klooster. Pitch black pour with a tan head. Nites of roasted malts, cherries, caramel, chocolate. Medium to full body, low carbonation and a roasty bitter-sweet finish.

[27/2/13] Bottle from De Molen online beershop. Dark brown body with big head. Nose is chocolate, malts, caramel, molasses. Great flavor of chocolate and plums and molasses again. Really nice and then the cognac! Spicy as well. Just really good.

From a 33 cl bottle shared at home. Pours a murky black with a thin tan head. Aroma of stone fruit. Flavors of plums and caramel with some oak and vanilla. Boozy finish.