on saleMonteverde Scotch Brown - 30ml Bottled Ink

Love it. You can see some shading with thicker nibs.

Beautiful rich brown but might be too wet depending on what nib you use.

I've just loaded my Olive wood Conklin All American with Monteverde Scotch Brown ink and it's already proven itself a great with this pen in the first page of notes. I had some trouble with a couple of Diamine Ancient Copper cartridges running dry in this pen causing very hard starts. I would have to stand the pen nib down to get the feed loaded and even then starting the pen required up to a couple of minutes of doodling to get it flowing. The Monteverde Scotch brown was quick to fill the feed and has written a page of doodles and a page of notes without any issue. I've set the pen on its side for a couple of hours and it started immediately when picked up again. The Scotch Brown color is very easy to read with a pleasant almost chocolate like look on the page. I've used the ink on a page of 20lb printer paper, Tamoe River paper in a Goulet notebook, and a Clairfontaine dot grid notepad. The Conklin writes wet with this ink, but the dry time is quick enough not to smear on the page of any of these papers. The shading is medium for me because it is writing wet in this pen. Flow is excellent so far and saved this pen from being put into occasional-use-only mode.

This ink is smooth, versatile and is true to the sample pictures - more warm brown than a dark brown, but depends on how much ink you've put on paper - with my broader calligraphy nibs, it gives some cool archival effects. This is my new go-to to write my morning pages, and I'm happy seeing it on paper everyday.

Delightful shade of brown. Looks especially great on ivory colored paper and journals. The ink performs well in every pen I tested. This ink will become a daily writer, for sure.