J.W. Lees Manchester Star Ale

Pours with immense carbonation, one inch head, dark as black coffee.  Appealing aroma like a sweet dessert with liquer.  Taste is sweet but not cloyingly so, balanced by coffee.  This tastes like a rich dessert of dense bittersweet chocolate torte infused with liquer.  As it warms up a taste of raisins appears, almost a fruitcake effect.  7.3%ABV.  From the bottle:  "Manchester Star is brewed to an original recipe dating back to 1884, when J.W. Lees Brewery in Middleton Junction just outside Manchester was already 56 years old.  In 2001, our current head brewer, Giles Dennis visited Garrett Oliver at the Brooklyn Brewery and resurrected this long forgotten ale for the first time in over 120 years."