Black Hole Cosmic

Brewed by Black Hole
Style: Bitter
Burton-on-Trent, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask @ 3 Judges. Clear golden colour, off-white head. Nose is light malted, bit sour, hint of citrus. Flavour is ligh malted, bit fruity. Slightly dry finish. Average bitter.

On cask at JDW, Stone. A bitter start and very bitter finish. No complexity of taste. Average.

UPDATED: JUN 5, 2011 1. Cask Handpump at the Penny Black JDW, Northwich 09/02/2011 Some hop aroma. Amber bronze coloured and malty with a hint of dryness in a bitter finish. 2. Cask Handpump at the Corner Bar, Crewe 29/05/2011 Fruity aroma. Golden coloured a little hazy in appearance and fruity with an apple flavour. Slightly phenolic. A hint of dryness in a malt finish.

Cask, 4.2%. Almost clear grey amber colour. Creamy white head. The flavour starts off nutty, turns slightly grainy. Also has a little caramel, perhaps just hazelnut flavour.

Cask handpull at the Wig & Pen Northampton. Beautiful clear amber colour with lasting near white head. Malty beer. Soft in mouth. Some acidity on the hops. Bit of a change from the Dark Star I had before this. Wish the couple at the bar would put each other down. Shes got nice shoes though. Also wish I hadnt broken my lap top earlier this evening.

Pours deep amber with nice off white head. Aroma of malts, pine and fruity citric. Flavor is lean round, a bit acidy, fruity and sweet malty. Palate feel is pleasantly round, lean and acidy. Finishes first with a perry sweet touch turning into biting pine bitter hoppy aftertaste.

Cask at Wellington Arms, Bedford. Amber with a small white head. Faint aroma: malt with a trace of vinegar perhaps. Beautiful taste: a perfect mixture of sweet malt, fruity sourness and sharp bitterness. I could go on and dwell on its many virtues, but I can’t be bothered. More beers should be like this.

Cask-conditioned at the Inn on the Green, Bristol 7/05/10. Amber coloured with a slight white head. Fruity aroma with a hint of spice and sulphur. Flavour of sweetish malts, berry fruit, more sulphur, with a decent bitter finish. Good.

UPDATED: JUN 13, 2011 1) Cask, 2nd Hinckley Beer Fest. Lacing honey amber with..what’s this?...a head! Egg and dough aroma. Soggy but clean; dunked Jammy Dodger, thick biscuit sweetness with some herbal hop reinforcement. Quality quaffing, nothing to quicken the pulse...636413=3.2. 2) The Earl of Mercia (JDW), Coventry, 12/06/11. Resolving, warm honey colour with a veil of haze and slim white top. Sulphurous light grassy aroma with aniseed and halitosis hints. Clean and malty beneath with toasted white bread, caramel, aniseed strawberry hints. Humdrum, overly chilled stuff. 536312=. 2.9.

Cask, Hinckley Fest 09. Amber with a small head. Aromas are nutty and malty with Autumn fruit. Flavours are sweet biscuit and light toffee with some prickly grapefruit. A decent traditional bitter.