2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask - Market Porter, London. Poured a dark mahogany/ruby with a fine, creamy, lasting and lacing off-white head. Tart berry aromas with chocolate and coffee coming through subtley. More berry notes on the tongue, almost vinuous, quite sharp finishing with a roasted bitterness. Soft with low carbonation on the tongue, medium in body and the finish was short.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask (Mitre, Cambridge)
Quoth Anna: Mushrooms and minerals. Not very good. A little roasy in the finish. Dark brown to ruby. A little coffee in the nose. A bit flat.
Quoth Phil: I used to quite like this one, glad I missed this sample!
3.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask @ Three Judges, Glasgow. Clear ruby copper color, short head. Aroma of coffee, mocha, hint of chocolat. Bit dry taste. Good aroma.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask @ Three Judges, Glasgow. Black, brown colored brew. Aroma is chocolate and malts. Flavor is chocolate, mocca and some malts. Light palate.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
On cask @ Three Judges, Glasgow. Aroma has darker malts, moccha. Amber coloured beer with an off-white head. The taste is bitter, has moccha, caramel, some black currant. Nice.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask @ 3 Judges. Dark brown colour, tan head. Very nice aroma of roasted malts, mocca, sweet malts, coffee. Flavour of roasted malts, sweet fruits, hint of glue. Fairly bitter and fairly dry.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask (gravity dispense) at Pigs Ear Beer Festival, 2 December 2009. Very dark colour - almost black and nearly opaque. Loose beige head. Slightly volatile aroma, with some fruity malt. Plenty of chocolate on the nose too. Quite dry and a little smoky. Distinctly bitter. A well balanced, satisfying, and very drinkable, porter that adds up to more than the sum of its parts.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask, gravity at Cheltenham Town Hall, @ Cheltenham Folk Festival w/e Sat’ 13th Feb’ 2010 Pours conker brown with ruby highlights, touch of sour fruit in the mouth, nicely malty, a decent seemingly quite authentic tasting porter. A7 A4 F6 P3 Ov13 3.3
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
cask at cloisters ... deep brown red ... tthin tan head ...soft woody toffee nose ... soft bitter charcoal toffee ... light hop back ground ... bittter linger ...
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