4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Deep red black, with thin off white head, light smokey roast , mellow smooth coffee roast with a little sweetness.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
UPDATED: FEB 8, 2012 On tap at brewpub Liverpool. Deep reddish colour with a creamy tan head. Mild roasted malt aroma. Also a very mild flavour. Some coffe and roasted malt
2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 6/20
Previously lost notes from GBBF 2006. According to these notes I only managed 15 beers at GBBF and somehow this was one of them. Black with a creamy tan head. Sweet malt body but oh so thin. Almost a bit of banana in the background and a bit yeasty. Too thin.
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
thin quick during head and a quiet nose of malt and molasis. Tastes like it smells,no to creamy but cold enough for a cask.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at GBBF 2006. This was actually my rating number 7000, if I’d put them in chronologically. A pitch black beer with a brown head. The aroma is sweet malty and quite roasted. The flavor is sweet with a strong dry malty roasted note, combined with light notes of chocolate, but the body is thin. Nice flavor - but lacking body.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask, Turf Tavern, Oxford. Brown high-lighted black, small layer of dark tan bubbles. Toffee and butterscotch aroma, some coffee that sat around cold a bit long. Coffee flavor, some cigarette butt and ocean. Starts okay, but gets less good with further exploration.
2.6 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at Wellington Arms, Bedford. Near black with a bubbly beige head. Sweet malty aroma, slightly fishy. Taste certainly isn’t ’full-flavoured’: there’s some sweet malt with a resiny sort of background, and a faint bitter finish. An unusual stout whose component parts don’t really work together.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask (handpump), GBBF 2006, Day 2, August 2006. Deep mahogany colour. Not the darkest stout I’ve seen. Creamy alright, with a big head. Soft malt aroma. Flavour is mainly roasty malt, with hints of coffee and powdery chocolate. Dryish and light bodied. OK but there’s not a lot of depth here.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask (GBBF 2006): Black with a tan head. Chalky feel with some chocolate notes. Pretty boring really.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Cask@GBBF 06’. Sweet and lightly roasty. Flat, weak, limp mouthfeel, quite watery. With some light malty sweetness, quite sweet, with low bitterness. I didn’t expect too much anyway.
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