UPDATED: DEC 18, 2018 Sample@GBBF2018, London, with the Malmö crew - dark brown pour with off-white head. Toasted and sweet malty with notes of cocoa, some nutty accents, fruit cake, caramel, medium body, dark malty close.

@GBBF - dark beer with no head retention; very roasted notes of coffee and dark fruits; low carbonation, moderate malt body, clean and velvety palate; aftertaste of dark fruits, molasses and roasted malts

Cask at the Vat and Fiddle; clear dark mahogany brown pour with a creamy light tan head, aroma has slight nut action and dark fruits, taste has plain chocolate, a bit nutty, slightly bitter, ok

Cask at GBBF '18, day 1, 07/08/18. Light black with little in the way of a head. Nose is dried fruits, spice, brown bread, dusty earthy backnotes in the aroma. Taste comprise light charr, leather, stewed fruits, brown bread. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close. Ok mild.

Cask at the GBBF 2018 day 1 07/08/2018. A Cleer mahogany brown coloured pour with no head. Aroma is brown sugars, charred malts, wood, hint of smoke. Flavour is composed of light tangy apple, woody cakey malts.. Palslte is semi sweet light tangy, decent. Ok.

7th August 2018
GBBF Day 1. Cask. Opaque dark reddish brown beer, no head. Smooth palate, very mild carbonation. Sort tangy dark malts, littoe cocoa. Soft tangy dark fruits. Smooth finish. Fine but a beer like many others.

Cask at GBBF. It pours deep / dark brown with a tiny beige head. The aroma is sweet, oily, burnt toast, umami, liquorice, earthy, slick and ashy. The taste is dry, bitter, earthy, chewy, wet wood, bark, umami, liquorice, toasted sesame sweet and pepper with a drying finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Run off the milk. Mild, bit it's OK.

Pours a dark colour. Nice roasted and sweet malts. Low abv so quite easy drinking. Decent beer

Cask (gravity) @ 31th Pigs Ear Beer and Cider Festival 2014, at The Round Chapel in Hackney, London, England.

[ As Dunham Massey Dark ].
Clear medium to dark brown - red amber color with a small to average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, dark malt, light roasted, light coffee. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration, tart fruit - blackcurrant, roasted, dark malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20141204]
Earlier Rating: 7/10/2013 Total Score: 3

Cask (gravity) @ 29th Pigs Ear Beer and Cider Festival 2012, at The Round Chapel in Hackney, London, England.

Clear dark brown color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, chocolate malt. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average to long duration, sugary dark roasted malt. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20121204]

Bottled. Deep ambery brown colour with some ruby notes too. The head is mediumsized and off-white, leaving some lace. Aroma is chocolate, mild toasted malts, some ripe fruits and mild resiny notes. Flavour is chocolate, some sweet dark malts, mild toasted notes as well as ripe fruits and some berries. Highly drinkable mild.