3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
(Bottle, Monk’s Café, Stockholm) Black colour with lasting, frothy, pale brown head. Roasted, malty nose with coffee, milky chocolate and wild berries. Roasted, malty taste with notes of coffee, chocolate, wild berries and generous doses of cocoa bitterness in the finish. Fairly dry with lots of bitterness coming through towards the end, nicely balanced by the fruity blackberry flavours. Very nice beer.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
JDW beer festival : Soy-sauce aroma, but really nice. Sweetness from the blackcurrant balances (disguises?) the bitterness from the dark malts.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask by handpump at Last Post, Paisley - pours black with a good oatmeal head, sweetish with coffee / blackberry flavour, quite smooth, different
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
bottle at home
pours black with thin tan head. ashy, chocolate nose. A hint of fruity blackberries but generally an interplay of coffee grounds, roast barley and dark chocolate.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
500ml bottle. Pours black with a ruby hint and a large head. Aroma is yeasty and roasty with a little bit of fruit. Taste has coffee to start. Yeasty roast finish with some berries on the aftertaste.
3.1 AROMA 1/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Like no other stout I’ve tasted. Really does taste of blackberries. I was pleased with this one for taste and being different.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask at the Rockingham Arms JDW. Black with a fine beige head, roast coffee and a little fruit on nose, then a lovely rich roast and burnt bitter bite with creamy dark fruit notes.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
On cask. Pours a dark brown colour with a thick light tan head. A little diacetyl aroma with Ribena blackcurrant also. Similar berry flavour with roasty malt also.
2.1 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
Betwixed and between a stout and ale, although has no real flavour to it. Dry finish.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
500ml bottle. Forms a big pillowy head. Aroma of blackberries (unsurprisingly) but they only surface occasionally in the taste. Medium bodied. Has a nice roastiness in the finish. An interesting stout, well worth trying.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask @ The Rook & Gaskill York. A pitch black colored beer, with a small thick beige head. The aroma of coffe with dark red fruits. The taste of bitter coffee with sweet fruits. The aftertaste of bitter coffee with some sweet.
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