Abbeydale Black Mass

Brewed by Abbeydale
Style: Stout
Sheffield, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask gravity @ GBBF 2007, London. Medium black color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, dark chocolate. Flavor is moderate sweet with a long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is oily / creamy, carbonation is flat.

Cask at GBBF 2007. A dark amber-brown beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet malthy with strong notes of caramel as well as light notes of alcohol. The flavor is sweet malthy with notes of caramel, alcohol, and roasted malt, leading to a finish where especially the caramel notes carries thru.

Cask@GBBF2007. Dark rubyish amber colour, not much head, but the minor thing there is is beigeish like. Aroma is roasted malts, some wet smoked wood and hops. Flavour is roasted malts, some dry dark fruity hints and wooden. Quite sweet brew.

Dark brown with reddish glimts and no head. sweet aroma with roasted malt, coffee and chocolate. Sweet flavor with caramel, roasted malt, bitter coffe and chocolate. Bitter finish.

Cask conditioned gravity, White Cliffs BF 08. Very very dark ruby, thin beige head. Rich toasty aroma, nice malts, choc, bitter espresso. But this is all about the lovely bitter choc in mouth. Rich dark bitter choc, with some hop on finish. Some dark fruits and strawberry jam.

UPDATED: AUG 13, 2009 1. Cask Handpump at the Station Buffet, Stalybridge 16/11/2002 Love the pump clip design on this one, enticed me straight to it! Black coloured stout with some fruitiness and alcohol present. Smooth on the palate with a bitter roast finish. 2. Cask Handpump at Wilkie’s Tavern, Warrington 21/04/2003 Black slightly strong and fruity with slightly dry bitter finish. 3. Cask Stillage at St Phillips Social Club, Sheffield 04/10/2003 Dark red smooth strong and fruity with a lasting roast finish. 4. Cask Handpump at the Crown Inn, Stockport 18/08/2007 Strong fruity aroma. Dark and strong in alcohol with a fruity bubble gum flavour. Smooth on the palate with some dryness in a bitter lasting roast finish. 5. Cask Handpump at the GBBF Earl’s Court, London 09/08/2008 Fruit and roast aromas. Black strong in alcohol and hoppy. Smooth on the palate with a lasting full roast finish.

UPDATED: SEP 20, 2008 Cask, GBBF 07 ...Deep black ... little sweet some berry fruits and malt nose ... roast smokeyness bitter fat full frount and nicly rounded raost malt finnish

Cask Conditioned at The Plough, Bodicote, Oxon. Black as a witches t*t with a tan head. Heavy thick stout, have your last rites read before a session of this, chewey fruit with a chicory powdery background, theres no letting up of the heavy roast notes, if this is imperial stout then I want more, take me into your darkness, envelope me with sticky licorice notes. Let the devil take me, compare this with commercial stout of the Irish kind, no comparison indeed.

A Sim rate (cask at Chelmsford BF): Nice coffee aroma. Very slight smell of cleaner, but surprisingly doesn’t spoil it. Tastes bittersweet and almost like a wine stout. Really like it.

UPDATED: SEP 6, 2005 Beer #9 at Chelmsford Beer Festival, with Duff. I found this a rather curious stout. It looks like a stout, but the aroma was much more leafy (gooseberry) and herbaceous than expected, with some currant fruit. The flavours are a bit more sturdy but, again, dominated by rich fruit rather than roasty malt. Gets quite bitter, almost sour, towards the finish. Not a typical stout, but interesting and rather classy anyway. I rather liked it. Cask (gravity dispense).