2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottled. A deep red beer with a thin brown head. The aroma is sweet malty with notes of caramel and bread as well as a light touch of butter. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of butter, straw, caramel, bread, and brown sugar. Reminds me of a Czech beer - please remove the butter note.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of joergen. Clear dark brown with a reddish hue and a rough, beige head. Burned malts in the nose and a whiff of raisins. Medium body, burned malt, some licorice and a fairly malt bitter finish. 131108
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden deep amber with a redish glare and a diminishing tan head. Mild butterish aroma yet soon going into a nice roasted malty flavour. Butterish and roasted malty flavoured with a mild spice note. Bitter and roasted finish.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottled. Black/deep ruby red colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is spices/herbs and some roasted malts. Flavour is hops, slight roast and some wooden sweetness.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Sampled cask conditioned. Very dark brown. Fruity aroma with hints of coffee and, yes - rum. Medium body, rather sweet and slighly roasty. rather complex with licorice and salt in the finish.
2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle.
Clear orange brown coloured with a small off white head.
Sweet aroma of malts, nuts and grain with notes of chocolate.
Fruity flavour of malts, caramel, grain and butterscotsch with notes of chocolate and hopss and roasted notes.
Roasted finish.
Not my style.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Dark brown with medium beige head. Sweet aroma with roasted malt, rye bread and coffee notes. Sweet flavour with roasted malt, chocolate and liquerice and coffee notes. Sweet roasted finish.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask handpull at The County Hotel, JDW, Ashford. Black beer, beige head. Deep ruby in fact on colour. Thick in mouth. Toffee maybe diacetyl on the aroma? Certainly the barman thought it was toffee when he tasted it. But then better in mouth. Hints of dark rum maybe with black treacle. Not overly sure that this is how it is supposed to be.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Pours a clear dark brown/amber color with a longlasting off-white head. Roasted malty slightly fruity coffee and chocolate aroma. Roasted malty chocolate and coffee flavor with some hints of vanilla. Dry roasted malty chocolate finish with a slightly bitter aftertaste.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottled (BB 09/2008)
Dark ruby color, small tan head. Sweet caramelly nose, light aroma of coffee beans and menthol. "Menthol hops", caramel and light coffee also in the flavor. Some hoppy bitterness in the aftertaste. i suppose this is so called old style English porter.
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