Ascot Anastasia’s Exile Stout

Brewed by Ascot
Style: Stout
Camberley, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask conditioned @ Nags Head, Reading. Roasty malt aromas - tending towards dry and toasty rather than richly aromatic. In the mouth slightly richer feel with hints of choc and some berries. Quite dry with a reasonably bitter finish. A good everday sort of stout.

Bottle from Kris Wines at home. Very dark brown/black colour with golden brown bubbly head. Aroma is chocolate and roasty, lots of malt, touch of cream and something savoury, almost meaty. Bit of booziness too. Smells much stronger than 5%! Taste is chocolate, roasty malt, slight bitterness, bit of smoke. Some hoppy fruitiness too, can taste the orange. Quite unusual. Pretty thick and quite smooth. Nice long lasting roasty finish. Pretty nice.

bottled, rbesg08 in sunny pilsen. blackish with a beige head; aroma of instant coffee and caramel, rusty tea finish, decent stout

Sampled from bottle at Scopeys 2nd East Croydon Beer tasting, thanks to Paul. Very small off-white to light brown, fully diminishing head. Pitch black, opaque color. Flat appearence. Smell slightly coffee, slightly roasty, not much more. Taste light to medium bitter, lightly roasty. Bitter finish of short to average duration. Light to medium body, average carbo.

A - Coffee, chocolate and dried fruit A - Black with thick head T - Tries for some sweet, but is overpowered by the coffee P - full and soft O - Average, too much coffee

Bottle from Nelson Wines at the 2nd East Croydon Beer Tasting. It pours jet black, with a thin off-white head. The nose is salted caramel, liquorice, dark chocolate, toffee, dark cherry and smoke. The taste is caramel, roasted malt, charcoal, filter coffee, ash and smoke, with a dry, roasty finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Straight forward, but well done.

UPDATED: OCT 16, 2011 Bottle at East Croydon Beer Tasting, thanks to Paul. Lots of cocoa and mild ash on the nose, some roast. Pours brown with a creamy, tan head. Medium sweet flavor, good roast character, plenty of ash and tobacco. Some scorched earth, mild bitterness. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Dry and roasty finish, dark malts, mild cocoa. Very solid.

Bottle. Pours a dark brown colour with a thin white head, the aroma is all malt and coffee, the taste again is all malt and just a hint of coffee with a dry malty finish.

From cask (gravity dispense, stillage) at the Hop Pole Beer festival, Aylesbury on 21 March 2008. Pours almost black with a thin beige/brown head. Strong roast malt and chocolate aroma. Dry and quite bitter - the bitterness seems to come more from tangy hops (not sure I’d describe them as having a pine or resin character though) than burnt malt. The malt character is actually a little nutty and sweet, as well as moderately roasted. More chocolate than coffee. Well-balanced with a firm, clean mouthfeel. Plenty of presence but extremely drinkable too. Very impressive.

[cask at 2011 Battersea Beer Festival] Dark, roasty aromas coming from a very dark brown or black beer. Beige-coloured head that reduces fairly quickly. Nice chewy roast aromas, with a bitter finish that has some coffee and a touch of ash at the end. Very nice however [10022011]

RBESG 2010, cask at Brasserie 4:20
Black color; creamy head (sparkler). The aroma is a mix of chocolate, cereals, yeast, medicinal components. Lean body, chocolate flavor, very light liquorice, with correct bitterness; the final is dry, with a tad too much roasted malts. Not at its prime.