To celebrate its 5th anniversary, up-and-coming Icelandic craft brewery Einstok has produced this terrific Wee Heavy-style beer.

Brewed in the extreme north of Iceland using glacial water, hand-picked angelica, and birch-smoked Icelandic barley, this superb brew uses only the finest ingredients available.

Pouring a hearty chocolate brown with a lively carbonation and watery texture beneath a small white head, this Scotch ale releases pleasing dried fruit aromas, with a complex malty nose, and a faint, smoky peaty quality.

On the palate, there is a moderate bitterness and discrete alcohol note that sits well with the complex yet balanced maltiness, evoking rich plum pudding to finish on a lingering aniseed character.