Art Brew Tempest Stout

Brewed by Art Brew
Style: Stout
Bridport, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask (Rake, London) (my notes say ’harvest’ rather than ’tempest’, but that might have been chinese whispers)
6 Simple roasty aroma, unexceptional but welcome in a beer of this depth of colour.
4 Deep reddish brown.
6 Rich roasty chocolaty taste.
4 Full rich palate, with a lingering roast, maybe slightly drying.
13 Certainly very pleasant, not no wows for me. Not really a stout IMHO. (I didn’t note how I’d better characterise it.)

Cask at Southampton Arms, London. A red-brown beer with a thin tan head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt and chocolate. The flavor is sweet malty with light notes of chocolate and roasted malt, leading to a dry nutty finish.

Gravity cask at the Bree Louise. Pours a dark, ruby-brown with a very mild film. Sweet aroma with roasty malts, tobacco and caramel. Pretty standard flavor, not overly roasty, sweet with straight sugar, some minerality, slightly astringent bitterness. Light to medium in body with very fine carbonation. Finishes a bit sweet and I need to struggle to pick up the charred, roasted malts. If there was a bit more burnt wood or something I would like this better. As it is I like the beer but the roastiness/sweetness mix seems tipped in favor of sweetness. Good stuff, could be better.

Cask @ Southampton Arms, Tufnell Park NW5. Pours a black color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty nutty chocolate and coffee aroma. Roasted malty sweetish chocolate flavor. Has a roasted malty chocolate finish.

Pours deep cherry red brown with bubbly tanned head. Aroma of melassis, malts and fresh bead. Flavor is bitter, malty, pine and a bit watery. Palate feel isacidy flat. Finishes fruity with a bitter hoppy nice aftertaste.

Cask @ Royal Oak. Pitch black with light frothy head. Big asphalt aroma is rich and inky. Soft palate. Lovely flavors! Like an impy but light! Inky, iodine. Black licorice is lovely here--all united, cohesive, and tasty.

@ Royal Oak. Dark brown colour. Rich chocolate aroma with light coffee accents. Chocolatey taste - a bit thin but it’s cask. Complex maltiness in the finish. Nice one!

Cask@The Southampton Arms. Dark amber colour, small off-white head. Aroma is some roasted malts along with some fruityness and mild berries. Flavour is roasted malts, berries, mild wooden notes as well as some slight liquorice and ashes as well.

From cask at Southampton Arms. Pours dark brown with a fully gone head. Aroma is dark roasted malt, breadish and slight coffeeish. Bitter, hardroasted and dark malty flavoured. Slight thin on the mouthfeel. Ends dry and bitter with a dark roasted malt base. Ends mild acidic.

Cask at the Southampton Arms, London NW5 on 1st March 2010. Dark red with a small dying head. Roast malts and a generally dry aftertaste. Quite average, not bad but average.