Bottled, thanks Bov! Cloudy mahogany colour, lively mildly gushing head. Caramelly nose with notes of vinegar and metal. Sweet with mediu-full body and rounded mouthfeel. Caramel and mulled wine and vanilla. Slight cranberry tartness, warming peppery finish. As it warms the vinegar in the nose turns more into red wine and vanilla. It grows on me.

from the brewery - cloudy dark brown beer with a long lasting creamy beige foam; the vanilla dominates a fair sweet maltiness; notes of prunes and candy sugar; pretty sweet and full-bodied, quite velvety palate, some residual sugars and a long fruity estery and fairly malty finish where more notes of vanilla are met - an interesting dessert beer