Dent T’Owd Tup

Brewed by Dent
Style: Stout
Sedbergh, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask Conditioned at The Plough, Bodicote, Oxon. Dark, brown, red beer with thin head. Malty, rich fruits, sugary beer, roasted coffee notes. Hard drinking with so many flavours.

From BA in December 2007: This bottle was given to me by a work colleague, thanks Ian. Poured into a Hannen Alt glass three times, it was a deep ruby red colour with a fast fading brown head. The aroma was all about farmyards, farmyards where sheep have just moved through and left a few piles of droppings behind them. Some would call it a healthy country smell others would not be so kind. The bottle says ’May contain gluten’, well does it or doesn’t it? I didn’t find anything to like about the taste. There were some burnt malts, maybe some burnt caramel but mostly a peat come earthy smack to it which I just couldn’t take too. The 6% wasn’t really evident to me, but the flavours I mentioned above did linger, so the mouthfeel was OK even if i didn’t enjoy it. Big disappointment and letdown, this was not what I expected at all. Winter beer of Britain 1999 ’My Arse’.

Tasted this at the Troon Beer Festival in October 2007. Cask, gravity dispense. Black mahogany in colour with a thin buff tan head. Rich roast coffee beans in the long aroma. Thick mouthfeel and poor lacing. Dark malt gives strong roast malt notes with coffee and grain evident. Sweet syrupy raisins, dates, dark plum and tiffin cake are also present in the base. There is a slight bitter note of spicy hop resins in the brief aftertaste. Malt returns rapidly with rich treacle toffee and bitter chocolate notes in the sweet but robust finish. An old fashioned stout full of mature flavours. This was a really popular choice at the Troon BF. Highly recommended and worth seeking out.

Bottle from Asda, Carlisle 061011
Very dark brown with ruby edges, tan head.
Aroma of roasted malt....chocolate....light coffee...some fruityness...well blended.
Roasted malt flavour with light chocolate...some coffee.....dark fruits - raisins...quite complex...good smooth flavour
Palate - a bit dry, smooth, soft carb, quite silky but a bit thin. Finish of light roast malt and chocolate.....slight alcohol warming.
Very good, flavoursome stout. Yummy and smooth. If it had more body it would be superb. Must try this cask.

Yeasty/dusty aroma reminiscent of Farley’s rusks on this dark brown beer with tan head. Initially sweet giving way to coffee grounds then red fruit. Finishing on a coffee note. Dried fruit makes itself known down the glass and a thin head is retained until the end. Fairly thick beer with light carbonation.

Strong porter like Winter Ale, dark almost black in colour. Taste is spicey dried fruit, Christmas fruit cake, chocolatey undercurrents and a nice hop kick on the finish.

Bottle. Sweet raisin, coffee and chocolate malt aroma. Dark chestnut color with small head. Sweet creamy coffee-chocolate malt and mildly bitter dry hay hops flavor. Nice body. Very good.

Bottled. Deep rubyish brown colour with small beige head. Aroma is plum, raisins, pudding and some mild grass, fruits and herbs. Flavour is much the same in a very nice balance. Quite pleasant stout.

50 cL bottle, 2006 vintage. Pours dark brown with a small off-white head. Aroma is dark malty and slight oxidised. Dark malty and roasted. Malty and light roasted finish.

Reddish brown airy tan coloured head with lacing on the glass. Aroma of chocolate and Malt fairly smooth with a very malty flavour.

Gravity at Cambridge Beer Festival 2009. Black with no head. Coffee and berries in the scent. Slightly watery. Lots of chocolate and coffee in the mouth but not to it otherwise.