3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at GBBF 08 ... Deep black ... light roast malt nose .... deep rich malt but uncomplex.
3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask @ GBBF 2008. Pours a dark brown almost black color with a small tan head. Has a roasted malty chocolate aroma. Roasted malty bitter chocolate and coffee flavor. Has a roasted malty chocolate and coffee finish with a bitter aftertaste.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask @ Great British Beer Festival, GBBF 2008, Earls Court, London, England SW5.
Clear dark brown color with virtaully none head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, burnt. Flavor is moderate sweet and slaty - like sea-water with a long to average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. (060808)
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Dark brown with tiny beige head. Sweet aroma with roasted malt and coffee notes. Flavor likewise with a sweet roasted finish.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
(Cask at GBBF, London, 7 Aug 2008) Black colour with brown head. Malty, roasted nose with fresh coffee hints. Malty, roasted taste with notes of freshly ground coffee, dark chocolate and cocoa. Nice dry bitterness in the finish. Medium body, smooth mouthfeel. Very nice stout.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
A Mes rate: gravicask at GBBF.
Black brown with an oily film. Dy fruity malt aroma with bit hits of earth and chocolate and very roasty indeed. Similar flavour just not quite so great. Again, massively roasty. Great length, beautifully dry. Jolly good.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at GBBF 2008 Pours dark brown in colour with beige head. This is really good, slightly sweet maybe but there are some lovely roasted burnt wood flavours pulsing through the bitterness hangs for some considerable time and there is coffee and bitter chocolate. This is a very good UK stout!
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: AUG 15, 2008 Cask, Ship Inn, Hoylake. Very dark reddy brown colour with a creamy off white head. Great lacing. Aroma was dark chocolate and coffee tinged with the unmistakable whiff of a pecked ,seaweed bedraggled mussel shell lying on the shoreline of Hilbre island. Gorgeously smooth and creamy mouthfeel. Flavour perfectly balanced with roasty malt and coffee. A cracking stout, probably as good as I’ve had. Big up the OC massive !! from the shore of Machrihanish to the Red Rocks of Hoylake boyeeee!!!
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask@GBBF2008. Deep amber colour, small beige head. Aroma is coffee, bigtime roasted malts and also some chocolate. Flavour is nicely roasted malts, coffee and mild ashy notes. Bigtime coffee aftertaste.
2.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at GBBF ’08. Dark brown with a beguiling chocolate aroma. Taste doesn’t quite measure up: sour and ashy, with a mid bitter finish. Fair enough.
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