3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask Stillage at the New Century Hall, Manchester 20/01/2007
Slightly rich aroma. Small bubbly tan head. Black with some alcohol present. Fruity. Crisp and bitter roast finish.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask, gravity, at Bedford BF ’08. Very dark brown or black. Sweet buttery aroma. Smooth sweet taste, full of dusty pencil shavings and sundry other waste items. Lingering bitterness. It doesn’t sound great, but I enjoyed this. Beer #4 of a day always goes down best.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask conditioned @ Nags Head. Fairly dry. Coffeish roast. Lactic tang. Slight bitterness. Quite good.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask@London Drinker 07. Quite a dusty mouthfeel. Some roasted malt, but i thought it was quite unlime a stout. Mainly due to the green apple character. Not as fresh as it could have been. This is a classic case of how fragile cask beer can be, as Chris_o had it the night before and he was saying it was in good condition.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask gravity London Drinker BF 07. Very dark brown colour with no head. bit odd. Plastic. Some decent intensity but just a bit weird.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Gravity fed half pint at the London Drinker Beer Festival, dark black with a bubbly brown head. A fruity caramal aroma with a hoppy tartness. A smooth palate with a bitter finish. Sweetish malty flavours with definite oaty notes.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask (gravity dispense) at London Drinker Beer Festival 2007. The first beer of the day and, as it turned out, just about the best. Pitch black, with a thin tan head. Despite the commercial description, I did find plenty of roast grain character here. Bags of bitter chocolate and smoky coffee too. Quite smooth, with a touch of sweetness, but with a distinct bite too. Not a particularly rich mouthfeel but plenty full. Very nice indeed.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask at Maypole, Yapton, March 07. Black with a creamy ivory head, but not much of one. Malty aroma and creamy mouthfeel. Fruity and fairly sweet initial taste, with a long, sharp dry after with oaty hints. A bit of a struggle to finish this — not really to my taste.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: APR 20, 2007 A Sim Rate (Cask at Battersea BF): Very bitter dark chocolate flavour.Very roasty and lovely colour.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: MAR 25, 2011 Cask conditioned - handpump - Malt Shovel Northampton. A black coloured stout with a beige coloured head. The aroma is malty with some slight roasty notes. The taste is lovely and roasty. There are coffee and chocolate notes also. Full bodied and smooth and very tasty. Score 4.0
Subsequent rating scored 3.7. Average becomes 3.9
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