No 125 - Black Albert Batch ´0´ (Belgium)

This black beauty has a deep, compact, intense nose with notes of coffe beans, rubber, wood oil and some seriously sweet, decadent fruit. Just stunning! Very, very deep. A touch of wood. Impressive.
The taste is tight, concentrated and massive with lots and lots of sweet dark fruit, coffe beans, tar and chocolate mousse. Sweet, intense, powerful and sooo yummy! Great!

96p   (tasted from bottle - 2011/07)

No 124 - Strong Suffolk Vintage Ale (England)

A deep, tight, and at first a interesting nose with notes of dried fruits, mature banana and sweet/sour black cherries. Becomes flat on the nose rather fast in the glas. Good but not great.

The taste is concentrated and tight with notes of dry dark fudge, banana and dry gravel. Somewhat foursquare in structure. Long finish that ends very dry. This is ok but not much more.

78p   (tasted from bottle - 2011/07)