4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
A - Roasted chocolate and vanilla
A - Dark brown with lasting head
T - Sweet with controlled bitter
P - Full and creamy
O - Fabulous
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle from Nina’s. Pours a dark brown colour with a thick, light tan head. Aroma of Cadbury’s chocolate, caramel, coffee and roasty malt. Similar flavours with moderate carbonation and a foamy mouth-feel. Very chocolatey all round.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask in Crown & Two Chairmen. Pours almost black but with reddish hue in the light. Nose is milk chocolate and touch of coffee. Taste is milk chocolate and a bit of lactic milkiness. Very chocolatey porter and very good.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask Stillage from the Cellar at the Harlequin, Sheffield 22/08/2009
Chocolate aroma. Dark red coloured a little rich on the palate and hoppy with some bitterness in a crisp full chocolate malt finish.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: SEP 15, 2011 Bottle at home ... deep red brown ... thin tan head ... sweet toffee roast ... little chocolate nose ... little fizz ... soft mellow ... chocolate ... little toffee ... soft ovaltine malt ... tasty enough ... but lacking a little in body to truely excel. 3?5
cask at hectors ... deep red brown ... sweet cchoc nose ... big chocolate front... soft cherry roast... real nice up front ... gets little wearing over time ... better body than btl .... stick at 3.5
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Dark brown and clear.Chocolate domintates and it does remind me of a few similar beers I have tried lately.Nevertheles it is well bottled BCA and easy to drink.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Keg at the Euston Tap - 29/10/12. Now re-branded as Great Yorkshire - Blackout Stout. Still at 5% ABV.
Very dark mahogony brown approaching black with a decent off white head. Good lacing ensues.
Light roast malt on the nose with a touch of chocolate in the background.
Tastes of chocolate pudding, light malts, a touch earthy.
Medium bodied with moderate carbonation leading to a smooth roasty finish. Decent enough stout/porter.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Dark amber color, bubbly beige head that leaves quite quickly. Malty bready aroma, chocolate and toffe, roasted and with vanilla notes. Roasted sweetish flavor, roasted and with a chocolate profile. A little thin bdy. Roasted malt finish.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask conditioned - handpump - Last Plantaganet, Leicester. An almost black coloured beer with a nice off-white head. The aroma has lightly roasted malts. The taste has some coffee and chocolate as well as a dusting of caramel. Some mellow sweetness. Decent.
3.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 10/20
5.0% dark brown colour with no head, chocolate malt aroma, slightly sweet chocolate and toffee taste, very nice porter.
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