Belhaven Scottish Stout (Bottle)

Brewed by Belhaven (Greene King)
Style: Stout
Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland

Serve in English pint

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Pours a dark black with a full brownish head. Full bodied with a hint of roasty coffee. Beautiful winter beer.

Rich and thick dark black stout with malt body and satisfying roast coffee finish.

500mL thanks to oteyj. Pours deep brune with a larger beige head. Good wispy tan lacing. Nose is very odd. Soy sauce and Asian stir fry vegetal character. Skunky hop character like Becks or Heineken. Small redeeming coffee and cheap chocolate. Taste is really thin and ashy. A little Worthers butterscotch candy and toffee. No stout character. Small soy sauce. Tartness in the end with a lot of dirt and ash. Really odd. Feels like an off bottle of Guinness Foreign Extra. Tart back end. Too thin overall. Eh. Clear bottle fail. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Bottle. Nearly black body with a light brown sugar tinted head. The nose was fairly roasted with some pancakes and notes of apple. There is also some peanuts and a little vegetable note of carrots. The taste is old very sweet coffee. There is also some cola character here, but maybe I am imagining that because of the incredible sweetness. A little hint of grapefruit hops is obliterated by this sugar bomb. Not good.

White bottle from Tbone, thanks! Deep dark brown color. Roasted malt and apple syrup in the aroma. malty sweet flavor, roasty with licorice and apple syrup. brown sugar.

Clear bottle, 500 ml, purchased at the LCBO, savoured on November 17 2011; eye: dark brown with ruby reflections, opaque, no effervescence, good sheet of beige head, nice no lacing; nose: roasted malt, vanilla, lactic, dark chocolate, milk chocolate; mouth: roasted malt, vanilla, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, light acidity, light sourness, finale in chocolate with presence of roasted malt, medium body, average carbonation, lightly sweet, foamy texture; overall: nice surprise FRANÇAIS Bouteille transparente, 500 ml, achetée à la LCBO, savourée le 17 novembre 2011; œil : brune foncée avec des reflets rubis, opaque, pas d’effervescence, bonne couverture de mousse beige, bonne dentelle; nez : malt torréfié, vanille, lactique, chocolat noir, chocolat au lait; bouche : malt torréfié, vanille, chocolat noir, chocolat au lait, légère acidité, légère aigreur, finale en chocolat avec légère présence de malt torréfié, corps moyen, carbonatation moyenne, légèrement sucrée, texture mousseuse; en résumé : belle surprise

Aroma a bit odd for me. Pours black with creamed coffee head that lingers. Coffee and toffee notes with long lasting mouth watering aftertaste.

Dont understand the high ratings. Didn’t seem like there was anything to write home about for this bDer. Very thin for a stout. And not a very nice aftertaste. Seemed empty.

Bottle 50 cl, Alko Arkadia. Pours black with ruby tones, has a great creamy brown head and leaves small lacing on the glass. Aroma is roasted malts, ashy, caramel, chocolate, bready and slightly fruity. Flavor is sweet, fruity, malty, roasted, acidy, caramel and molassis. Very good and easily drinkable. Finishes malty and bitter.

Aroma is smoky, like a good stout, with a floral hint and tones of coffee and wood. It pours a deep warm sable that is a little translucent at the very edges and has a thick, fine-bubbled, fairly persistent light tan head that "pillows" in the middle after a bit. Smoky flavor has woody, unsweet chocolate and fruity tones. Firm-bodied texture has a fair amount of fizz and leaves a burnt wood finish. Overall, not too shabby.