Dark Star Espresso Stout (Keg)

Brewed by Dark Star
Style: Stout
Horsham, England

Serve in English pint

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<b >Jan, 2005: Nitrokeg. <a href=http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/19/198 Star, Brighton - with joet. Espresso aroma - espresso flavour - softened with a pleasant crema by the nitro. Nice. The nitro works. [3.8]

refreshingly lot of coffee so it is what it says it is this time. nice thick mouthfeel. a bit sticky sweetness. a bit bitter in the end

Bottle at DØE. Black with an off-white head. Aroma and flavour of chocolate, coffee, roasted malt and caramel.

DØE. Black with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, chocolate and coffee. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and roasted light bitter finish. 100512

Bottled. A brown beer with a thin tan head. The aroma is dominated by roasted malt combined with coffee. The flavor is sweet with notes of lotes of coffee combined with medium notes of roasted malt and caramel, leading to a dry finish.

Bottle 50 cl. black beer with a huge beige head of long duration. Sweet aroma of roasted malt and coffee with notes of brown sugar. Dry and slightly bitter taste after the hard-toasted malt, and clear notes of coffee. Dry and slightly bitter aftertaste

Bottle: As black as ink with ruby spots, small creamy and lacy off-white head, small hints of tobacco and leather in the mainly roasty-fruity (almost a bit smoky) nose; moderate sweet-bitter flavour, light bodied and smooth; lingering soft coffeeish-fruity finish with a nice balancing malty bitterness. Good, good.....

(bottle) Black colour with a beige and short foamy head. Roasty and slightly leathery malty aroma with notes of dark chocolate and coffee/espresso. Mildly roasty bitter flavour with a rounded level of sweetness, light bodied with a soft carbonation. Roasty malt-character, primarily with notes of dark chocolate and a touch of coffee and a tinge of leather; moderately dry and roasty bitter finish with notes of choco and coffee in the aftertaste. 24.IV.12

500ml brown bottle: My cap said best before end of Aug 09, it was consummed in July 09. Poured into my vase shaped ’Old Speckled Hen’ pint glass. I am drinking this as I review. One of the blackest beers I’ve ever had, even under a strong light source it remained black around the edges. A thin tanned head soon turned into a wisp and collar. If you don’t like coffee I doubt you’ll have bought this because the name gives away what it is all about. Rich coffee bean aroma and a dry, unsweetened coffee bean taste was as far as I got really. The coffee flavours are so overpowering nothing else can get through. The label suggests it is ideal after a meal, can’t argue against that, wish I’d read the label before opening the bottle, I’m eating later. The richness in the smell and initial taste doesn’t last through the mouthfeel. It isn’t weak or watery in any way, but it isn’t a cappuccino either. I suppose it does give you a sharp lift like a real Expresso can at times, but it wasn’t ’My Cup of Tea’. Interesting and it doesn’t pretend to be anything but a coffee tasting beer, which it certainly is.

Pours pitch black with a medium tan head. Aroma is loads of coffee with some roasted malts. Flavor is also mostly coffee with some roasted malts. Very nice.

Color is black with a high foamy tanned head. Aroma is coffee, roasted malts and malts. Flavor is rich malty and dark coffee. Some chocolate cake. A bit watery palate, but long lasting after taste. Nice!