4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle at home as part of my ... dark roast ... soft chocolate ... mellow malt nose ... little blackcurrant up front ... dark malts ... dark chocolate ... solid chocolate roast ... little milk sugers ... dark fruits and plums ... wonderfully low carbonation ... rich sweet and delightfull
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle at Scopey’s CBC Tune-Up. Thick deep brown pour with no head. The nose is hershey’s chocolate syrup, deep toasted buttered brown bread and cream. The taste is funky bitter chocolate, blackberry zest and light brown sugar. Some raspberry syrup. The body’s thick and smooth. Pleasant to drink. Nice, simple imperial stout.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle at my Pre-CBC Tune-Up Tasting. It pours very dark brown, with a bubbly tan head. The nose is varnish, charcoal, chocolate, caramel, toffee and toasted coconut. The taste is roasted malt, caramel, brown sugar, toast, charcoal, touch of tangy fruit, smoke, toasted coconut and some alcohol warmth, with a dry-roasted finish. Full body and moderate carbonation. A decent imperial stout, if a little unexciting.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Opaque and near black in colour, with a slight, off-white head. Slightly sweet aroma of chocolate, blackberries and liquorice. Flavour began with some caramel sweetness, before more plain chocolate, fruit and a warming, bitter finish. Very enjoyable.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
3rd December 2011
ChrisOs Early December Tasting. Semi opaque brown beer. Bubbly tan head. Smooth semi dry palate. Smooth dark malt. Chocolate, a little sour coffee. Mild vanilla and a trace off red fruits. Smooth creamy finish. Nicely joined up.
3.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Part of a special box of stouts for Christmas bought directly from the brwery. Black small head with a powerful malty flavour that really dominates.
Very easy to drink for such a powerful beer.Well done Bristol Beer Factory for this beer and the stout box produced before Christmas,
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle directly from the Bristol Beer Factory, Bristol, consumed at home 29.01.12 Pours dark, dark brown with a small filminess the head (what there was of it) soon disappeared. Little bit of meatiness, some Oxo, its good for not being sweet or to cloying, and with that in mind it reminds me a little of something like a Harveys Imperial Stout though with the greatest of respect to this decent beer it is not quite in that league. I don’t get too much of the dried fruitiness but I do get a slight sauciness and touch of salt. A6 A4 T7 P4 Ov13 3.4
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle at home. Pours thick black, thin tan head. Boozy aroma, dark chocolate, raisin, plum and a little dusty. Strongly alcoholic flavour but not unpleasantly, and creamy vanilla to go with it. Nice and smooth, very nice.
4.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle at home, part of 12 stouts of Christmas. Deep viscous black, thin tan head. Slightly smoky, dark chocolate nose, hint of deep fruit also. Milky chocolate front, milk sugars, deep roast, some saltiness in the finish. Hint of booze in the finish, long and roasty. Lovely stuff, great end to the collection.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottled@my birthdaybash@Chriso. Black colour, small brown head. Aroma is sweet liquorice, some sweet maltyness, dark fruits, wood and some herbal notes. Flavour is liquorice, sweet malts, mild ashes as well as some dark fruits and mild syrupy notes.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
[500ml bottle courtesy of cgarvieuk, as part of ’12 stouts of Christmas’] Black pour, thin, bubbly tan lacing. Bitter dark chocolate aroma, malt and some alcohol on the nose. Same on the taste – it is nice and warming. Alcohol heavy on the finish. A good imperial stout [20122011]
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