Beowulf Dark Raven

Brewed by Beowulf
Style: Mild Ale
Brownhills, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Raven black with a small off-white head. Aromas are earthy with some oatiness, fruit and chocolate. Flavours are also earthy with sweet malts. A roast character like sweetened black coffee. Pretty fruity with some smokiness and spices. Syrupy on the palate. A tasty mild.

Mild in May: bottle conditioned 500ml. Out of date by some four months, poured slowly into an Abbot Ale glass tankard on 8th May 2012. Deep, dark Ruby red body with a huge biege head that gushed out the bottle. Malty nose and taste, fairly rich and full bodied, well carbonated and interesting. Chocolate and coffee hints from the maltiness, but not too heavy or overpowering. Fuggles hops kick in late and give the beer a balanced bitterness to counteract the malty sweetness initially found in the flavour.

Cask at the NWAF, 2012. My notes didn’t note down the colour but I imagine it was dark! Dark roast coffee aroma with a hint of vanilla and smoke. Chocolate, vanilla and coffee flavour. Very tasty.

Cask @ Bodega, Newcastle.
Pours dark ruby red colour with light head, leaves some lacing. Aroma of chocolate, light roasted malts and caramel. Flavour of chocolate, coffee and roasted malts. Very smooth palate, somewhat like a chocolate infused Guinness.
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UPDATED: MAY 6, 2012 7th August 2009
GBBF. Cask. Very dark brown beer, clear. Light and softish palate. Light tangy fruity malt. A small amount of unsweet chocolate. A little repressed bubblegum. Well joined up and tasty.

2nd August 2011
GBBF Cask. Clear red brown beer, residual suddy tan head. Light smooth palate. Sweetish plums well integrated with very mild dark malts. Some boiled sweets underneath. Semi dry finish.

Cask at GBBF, Day 1. Pours clearish brown with a bubbly head. Vanilla, dark malt aroma. Medium sweet flavor with lactic sugars, light cocoa, mocha, faint roast. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Sweet finish with very little bitterness, mild dark fruits. Great beer.

Bottle at Shrewsbury Folk Festival weekend of 26,27,28,29th August 2011 Pours black, this is a touch tangy from the off with a light sourness, some hedgerow fruits, its pretty good. A6 A4 T7 P3 Ov13 3.3

Cask @ GBBF 2011. A black colored beer, with a off white head. The aroma of dark fruits with hints of coffee. The taste of a little chocolate with fruits and some bitter. The aftertaste is some sweet and a little bitter.

Cask (GBBF2011)
Sweet lactic aroma. Smooth palate. Sweet, almost slick. Treacly sweet taste. Finish a touch grainy too. Pretty decent mild.

Cask at GBBF 2011 - Tuesday. Dark brown - no head. Chocolate, roasted, sweetness, oiley, cocoa, medium malty, grassy, harbal, light forrest hoppy.

Cask at GBBF 2011. It pours dark ruby-brown, with a thin bubbly beige head. The nose is roasted malt, caramel, plum, raisin and currant. The taste is sweet malt, caramel, brown bread, chocolate, lactose, treacle, plum and raisin, with a dry finish. Light body and low carbonation. A pleasant, light malty mild.