Heather Ales Ebulum

Stout-like aroma, chocolate, vanilla, and coffee. Pours black with a good head. Smokey smooth, very drinkable, porter or sweet stout-like.

Aroma of sweet berry and light roasted malt. Very dark brown color with ruby hilites. Beige head that laced mildly as it flattened. A bit thin bodied. Very smooth. Something like a porter with a bit of coffee. The berry is pretty overpowered by the roasted malt. The finish is basically roasted malt with a bit of bitter of some sort.

Bottled. Pitch black colour, mediumsized brown head. Aroma is berries, wood, roasted malts. Flavour is sweetish roasted malts along with some wooden hints. Some berries and other stuff when it gets warmer.

Bottled (BB 06/2008)
Pitch black color, small off-white head. Herbal and wheaty aroma with roasted coffee notes. Porter-like flavor: toasted malts, slightly sweet (berries) and then some herbal notes - I really can’t say what they are (or is it elderberry). Interesting and even quite drinkable.

A Mes rate: Bottled from a bar in Manchester round the corner from This and That. Black and opaque with a tan head. Complex brew with dark malt, vanilla, lovely smoky peaty notes, very Scottish. A little barley in there too. Bitter hoppy finish balances it out really well. Great stuff.

Heather Ales makes some wierd beers and this is no different. I don’t even know what the eff an elderberry is but I don’t like it. Pours a dark black with no head. Looks old.Aroma of dark fruit. Tastes like old dirty wine with sand in the bottom. All dark fruit and heavy carbonation. I won’t be trying any elderberries anytime soon.

Bottled. ebony coloured beer with a thick lasting dark tan head. Aroma of vanilla, elderberry, light roasted barley Flavour is malty, coffee, cola, floraly, fruity berry aroma. finish is also flowery and a bit roasty. enjoyable beer

Dark brown-beige, thick and large head; collapsing over near-black beer. Slight coffeeish nose, bit sweetish, some liquorice and roasted malts. But as to fruitiness... Soft, sweet stout. Retronasal finally the sweetness gets some fruity, indeed even berry-ish flavour, but it is immediately put down again in the throat by the coffeeish roasted malts, that win over and slowly fade. Medium bodied. Seems to get a little bit of tannines, by the drying-out effect. A beer has to carry the fruits, when added. I’m not an elderberry expert, but either they’re very discreet, or have simply been used to scarcely. In any way, a sweet liquorice stout demands a forceful fruit antagonist. Might it be that the Heather brewers have lost faith in outspoken tastes? Thanks Craig, another completely new one to me.