3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at The Black Friar, London. Pours very, very dark ruby with a creamy tan head. Coffee aroma. Flavor is coffee with smooth dark malt, and perhaps a bit of chocolate. Medium bitter. Delicious.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask gravity @ The Duchess of Cambridge, Stamford Brook W6. Pours a dark brown color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty rich chocolate aroma. Roasted malty chocolate flavor. Has a roasted malty chocolate finish with hints of caramel in the aftertaste.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at Thurrock Beer Festival 2011, Grays, England.
Dark reddish brown colour with small frothy off-white head.
Roasted malt, chocolate, earth and farm yard in aroma.
Roasted malt, dry hops, chocolate and liquorice in balanced flavour.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask Handpump at the Red Lion, Chester 29/04/2011
Roast and a little fruit aromas. Dark coloured a little rich on the palate and fruity with some alcohol present. Bitter and slightly dry burnt roast finish.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pint from cask. Quite a dark pour with a fair head. Slight aroma of coffee. Tastes of milky coffee. Very strongly. No other tastes whatsoever. Like drinking a cup of white, unsweetened coffee at grandad’s house. Weird, but not altogether unpleasant.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask @ Society Room, JDW. The last half pint of the cask. Clear brown colour, off-white head. Aroma is chocolate, roasted malts and a bit of butter and espresso. Flavour is roasetd malts, espresso and coffee. Fairly bitter and roasty finish. Good stuff.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at the Sir Michael Balcon (JDW), pours a dark red-brown with a beige head, aromas of roast coffee, dark fruit and a little toffee, palate is dry-sweet with a hoppy edge, more toffee notes and a hint of port, then a dry roasted finish with a lasting bitterness. Good stuff.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask at ’Spoons, Milton Keynes. Dark brown with an off white head. Espresso and ashtray aroma. Taste is burnt toast and a little sweetness: perhaps not quite enough. Mid bitter finish. Close to being very good.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask-conditioned, twice on 12/02/2011, at the Bell, Hillgrove Street, Bristol and Colston’s Yard. Interesting contrast of appearance, in the subdued lighting of the Bell, it was near black with a decent off-white head. In the brighter, cafe style CY, it was a medium brown with some hints of red and a similar head. This was very easy drinking, with some coffee and sweetish cereal notes, before a slightly roasted, dry finish. It’s good to see Butcombe brewing a wider ranger of beers. Excellent.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask - The Bell Hotel (JDW), Norwich. Small though lasting, creamy-bubbly beige head leaving some lace atop a very dark brown body. Roasted malt & coffee aroma. Similar flavour profile with chocolate notes, finishing with a lingering dry coffee bitterness. Soft & smooth on the palate, medium body with a lasting bitter malt finish. A nice, fairly hefty though easy dinking porter.
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