Mr Perrett's Traditional Stout
Wickwar Brewing Company

Very dark brown color, almost black. Beige foam, one finger, right for the style.
In the smell the classic stout characteristic: malt, some roasted, coffee, chicory, and a touch of grassy hop.
In the taste some chocolate notes, dry fruit, dustiness, and a good amount of grassy hop.
Average to light in body.
It lacks just a bit of smoothness.

Got this at De Bierkoning in Amsterdam.

From a bottle into a pint glass.

APPEARANCE: Pours a medium sized thick looking off-white / tan head. Head looks really thick and slowly pops and settles into a decent wispy film. Leaves a bit of lacing at the beginning. It looks relatively clear and is dark mahogany / brown with deep ruby hints.

SMELL: Roasted barley malt and a slight coffee tinge. A bit of licorice and dark fruits as well. Nice, but it could be a little stronger. This seems to be common with English stouts.

TASTE: Roasted barley malt again and a bit of chocolate at the end. An ever so faint touch of coffee and licorice in the mild yet pleasant aftertaste. The taste is strong initially, and the faint aftertaste comes out after a few sips. Very nice job here.

PALATE: Medium-thick body with low end carbonation. Goes down smooth, no bite, and finishes slightly dry. Very nice.

OVERALL: This is one of the better English stouts out there. Great beer overall and is very drinkable. It goes down very nicely and could be drunk all night at the pub. The bottle says it's an award winner, and this is one of the few times I can actually see why. Very nice job.

Poured a deep burnt mahogany with some black shoe polish. Almost a purple-red hue as held up to the ambient light. Almost non-existent head but managed to leave some vcarbonation swirl on the side of the pint/
Aroma of dark citrus, chocolate and some molasses as well as a hint of leather.
Flavor had a solid chocolate and tofeee underpining with a hint of burnt toast and coffee mid-mouth. Touch of anise as it warmed.
Mouthfeel was somewhat dry, almost a dry stout feel with lots of bitter and roasted notes all around.
Drinkability was very solid. Really nice sipping stout. I believe this could be classified a Dry Irish stout but whatever it was enjoyable.

Bottle-conditioned, 500ml brown bottle. BBE Feb. 07, served in a straight imperial-pint glass.

A: pours a nearly ebony colour with ruby glows; the thin and foamy beer head settles slowly, while the carbonation seems quite lively.
S: a sour-sweet dark fruitiness, like oven-baked figs and dried longan-fruits, mingles well with a deeper chocolatey aroma of the roasted edge of crystal/black malts, while a tinge of licorice and savoury-sweet perfumy smoked grains intensifies after a good swirl... Balanced smell, with perfectly-matched sourness and bitter-sweet roastiness, and a touch of warming alc. at the back.
T: a slightly warm-ish alc. comes with a flow of dark maltiness on the palate, introducing flat-textured sweet dark chocolates, coffee-flavoured candy, sweet longan-fruit tea, and a limited licorice aftertaste; a touch of woody hoppyness results in a lively mouthfeel at the back. Interestingly, a chewy, bitter-sweet roasted maltiness lingers, rounding off the palate ever so softly.
M&D: a full-bodied, "quietly potent" and rather sweet stout, with a mouthfeel staying softly fizzy, but falling off-balance a bit in the end, IMO. I'd prefer a more complex and richer palate, given its relatively high alc. strength, but still, this stout is not bad at all.