2008 Vintage

2008 vintage from a 12oz bottle.

Thought that it was time to re-review a fresh vintage so here we go with the 2008 version.

The usual dark, dark brown almost black pour with the promise of a creamy experience in the head and lace. Large, creamy and coffee-milky bubbles form at the edge of the head. Some lace.

Nose and tastes this year seems a little less spicy to me, but there is a VERY distinct harsher, solvent alcohol edge to this beer.

Some acidic, orangey licorice notes.

Quite sultry and dark; definitely less highly spiced on my palate in 2008.

Worth looking at my other reviews of earlier vintages for some more perspective.

2006 Vintage

1.5L wax covered swingtop #5249.

The new 2006 vintage out of the bottle is drinking like a brown ale (just like the 2006 draught version – see my review of that).
A little thinner in the bottle (perhaps just my imagination) and it seems to have a touch more alcohol content in the bottle.