Dark Star Dark Star

Brewed by Dark Star
Style: Old Ale
Horsham, England

Serve in English pint, Snifter

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Cask Conditioned, at the Wenlock Arms, London.
Dark brown with a beige head. Smooth easy drinking beer. Soft and complex, the beer drinks like session ale for the first half. In fact your searching for flavour when its there. Just be patient.

[cask, The Drapers Arms, London][as Dark Star Original] Pours a deep reddish black with a very thin head due to the southern style. Aroma is fruity – dark stone fruit – roasted malt and some toffee. Flavours are similar. It’s fantastically drinkable, I knocked back three pints in a sitting before I realised what had happened. Long, woody, bitter finish – really recommended (as is the Drapers Arms) [16032012]

Gravity cask @ In De Wildeman (as Original). Dark brown color, soapy head (not much). Aroma is full of red fruit, with some sweet fruit & some malty sweetness. Flavor is only lightly sweet, very fruity. Low carb. Finishes with roast and eventually bitter.

Cask in Craft Beer Co. Colour is dark ruby red. Nose is fruity English hops, caramel, black treacle, roasted malts and a distinctive farmyard smell. Taste is sweet and bitter, with some dark fruitiness, low carbonation.

Half, cask as Dark Star Original at Mason & Taylor, Bethnal Green. Shiny dark ruby body, naked surface. Inviting smell of chocolate and coffee. Fine blended taste profile of honeyed dark malts followed by bitter liquorice. Medium bodied. Nice (London, 31.07.2011).

Eccellente old ale, molto leggera a dire la verità, e secondo me è più una porter. Malti tostato e luppolo in un connubio di rara perfezione!

05/06/2011 Brasserie 4:20 (cask). Spillata a pompa. Bel colore ambrato intenso, quasi marrone, con riflessi color miele di castagna, buona schiuma morbida poco persistente. In bocca ha un aroma luppolato e maltato molto soft ma ben bilanciato. In bocca è molto interessante, malto, caramello, con un finale amaro e luppolato. Carbonazione soft, consistenza oleosa, acquosa e molto beverina.

Cask at the Pembury. Pours a dark brown, with a small beige head. Light caramel malt and light hop aroma. Taste is mostly roasted malt, caramel, toffee, and a light pine. Decent.

Cask at Akkurat. Dark brown color, almost no head. Very fruity, caramely aroma with some roasted coffee notes. Flavour is lightly roasted, yet a bit sweet with caramel and light coffee. A bit fruity. Carbonation is flat, body is light to medium.

Cask (as Dark Star Original) at Angleterre, Helsinki. Bright dark reddish brown color. The aromas of toffee, chocolate, licorice and mellow fruitiness. More toffee, chocolate and vinous fruitiness in the taste along with dark caramel and bitter chocolate in finish. Very smooth, drinkable and tasty.

UPDATED: MAR 8, 2011 Bevuta a pompa alla Brasserie 4:20 (Roma) - Rubino scuro, con schiuma morbida poco persistente. Naso quasi assente. In bocca dolciastra, si percepisce il malto, caramello, sentori di caffè e un finale amarognolo. Molto equilibrata. Al palato piatta, oleosa, acquosa, corpo medio. Davvero ottima.