UPDATED: JUL 19, 2021 Bottle, WW, as Dragon Stout Fire. Dark brown, not quite black, with a small tan head. Caramel, nutty aroma, with a hint of raisin. Way too sweet caramel, raisin, nuts, chocolates. Tastes like corn syrup all over this.

UPDATED: MAY 13, 2021 Dragon Stout Fire has a thin, beige head and a dark, cola red-brown appearance, with some lacing. The aroma is of pungent, burnt starch and raisin. The flavor is very sweet, dark raisin, starch, and a scintilla of balancing hop bitterness. Dragon Stout Fire has a medium body, and a midway, sweet-to-dry finish. This is a most unusual item. RJT

UPDATED: FEB 8, 2021 Old rating from 02-07-16 - A gift from a friend who visited the Caribbean. 250ml bottle. Named XXtra, but I guess this is one & the same. It pours a very dark brown near black colour with a beige head. Aromas of dark fruits, dark chocolate, nuts & sweet roasted malt. Tastes of dark fruits, chocolate, burnt coffee, nutty caramel, tar, sweet malt & alcohol.

UPDATED: JAN 30, 2021 Pours dark chocolate with a thick cocoa head. Aroma features roast malt, molasses, semi-sweet chocolate and a hint of coffee. Flavor provides chocolate, roast malt, molasses, coffee, a hint of toffee. Texture presents good smooth body and peppy fizz. Spit fire!

UPDATED: JAN 27, 2021 Pours black with a thick creme-colored head. Aroma of sweetened malt, caramel. Taste has molasses, sweetened caramel, sickly malted barley sweetness. Palate has burnt malt, some oily elements. Eh.

UPDATED: NOV 24, 2020 9.6 oz bottle from 6 pack. Very dark, opaque. Strong, somewhat sweet smell. Good. A bit sweet but definitely strong. Don't taste any roast like a stout should. Low carbonation.

UPDATED: JAN 18, 2020 250ml bottle. Purchased at Progressive Foods in Montego Bay. Poured black with a tan head. Aroma of sweet malts, roasted, molasses, dark chocolate. Taste was sweet, molasses, plum, roasted malts, dark chocolate.

UPDATED: NOV 21, 2018 Lots of booze and some sweetened licorice. Black pour with ok head. Syrupy consistency. Very sweet on finish. Regular Dragon Stout far superior. Bottle in Mobay.

250ml bottle, deep abyssal black color, with a tan-coloured head, sweet fruity roasted, black, chocolate, wheat, toasted malty nose, with some faint fruitcake, fruity molasses, sugar cane, toffee, faint fruity black coffee accents and a subtle port wine, faint prune juice, subtle raisin pie note in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a warmth fruity juicy roasted, black, toasted, wheat malty, fruity molasses character with some sugar cane, juicy dark dried fruit, sweet fruity dark chocolate flavours, leading towards a warming fruity juicy roasted, chocolate, black, toasted, wheat maltiness, fruity molasses, , light fruity juicy black coffee, fruity sugar cane sweetness finish.

$2.15 for a 250 ml. bottle from a gas station near Ocho Rios, bb Jun 2018. Pours ebony with a spongy disc of foam. Nose is caramel cola with a touch of liquor. Flavor is hard caramel candy with a bit of cola, booze and cocoa. Medium-plus body is surprisingly not cloying and has a pleasant low-medium fizz. I was told by Jamaican business colleagues that they use this only to boil up a mixture of oats, peanuts, coconut milk and various spices to make a delicious sticky dessert. That seems a more appropriate use of this brew.