It constitutes a pinnacle in its category of strong pale ale. It has a velvety sensation on a bitter but not harsh mantle. It is dense in the mouth and imparts to the gullet an additional more severe character terms of bitterness timbered with a certain piquancy on the tongue. It expends all its alcoholic flavour on the palate up to the very end of the mouth, where it leaves a long and excellent aftertaste. It absolutely must be taken ice cold in order to preserve the severe nature of its particular and so very fascinating taste.