3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle conditioned version, review bottle from brewer. A black beer with a thick mid-fawn head and a restrained malty aroma with a hint of iron. A full but tangy palate has dark malt, cola, toffee caramel, restrained herbal hops and slight hints of burnt rubber and cough sweets. A softer lightly sugary swallow leads to a dark sultana cake finish with light roast and rooty hops notes. Overall, full of flavour but very drinkable. Originally intended as a winter seasonal for 2007/08 but following beer festival awards production has been revived early in 2008.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask gravity @ Reading Beer Festival 2008.
Dark red brown color with a small, fizzy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, chocolate, coffee. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. The bitternes is malt burnt bitter, coffee bitter and some notes of hoppy bitternes. Body is medium to light, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat. (030508)
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
A Mes rate: Gravicask at Reading Beer Festival.
A very dark red brown colour. Big fruity aroma with some excellent smoky malt. Close to an 8 in all honesty. Flavour is earthy, dusty, very smoky and ends up surprisingly dry. A little thin in the body but damn good stuff over all.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask handpull at Market Porter. Very deep ruby with thin beige head. Roasted malt slight butter aroma. Not sure where it goes in the mouth. Very dry charcoal, burnt malt. Not real choc or coffee. Some fullness in mouth but it’s a burnt malt flavour.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
On gravity at the Bristol Beer Festival 14/3/08. Near black with a decent tan head. Sweet aroma of milk chocolate with some dark fruit and roasted notes. Flavour was also very sweet with lots more chocolate and a lactose finish. Good.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Bought at Cheddar Gorge not far from the brewery. Not sure what the title means and there was no explanation on the label dark bitter with traces of smoked chocolate present. Slightly bitter and left a small amount of sediment. An excellent BCA.
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