3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask (gravity dispense) at the Bricklayers Arms Yorkshire beer festival, February 2009. Really dark. Loose but lasting head. Loads of malt in the aroma, some smoky notes. Good firm chocolate flavour. Good firm, but subtle, bitterness. Really good stuff.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask at Bricklayers Arms Yorskhire Festival 09. Black, lasting beige head. Attractive choccy beer. Lovely smoke, bonfire smokiness, rich and full in mouth. Excellent rich, dark fruit beer. Dark jammy plums and blackberry. Good dry roast finish. Superb. Beer of the festival for me.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
A Mes rate: gravicask at the Bricklayers Arms.
Cloudy black brown with a thin beige head. Awesome coffee, liquorice, fruity malt, inky, rubbery, excellent all round. Gread body, superb dry bitter finish. Perfectly pitched mouthfeel. Once again, excellent all round.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at Bricklayers Arms Yorskhire Festival, 27th Feb 2009. Dark, close to black. Foamy head. Good flavours of chocolate, dark malt and cold coffee but it’s a little thin and this lets it down somewhat.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask at the bricklayers arms beer fest. Burnt malts, slightly plasticy yeast character, noteably bitter. Not a hottie.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
cask @ Bricklayers beer fest puice drtney:drinkable dark ale.Roast chocolate and some dusty yeast bite.A bit aromatic in the backdrop.Nice.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask conditioned - gravity dispense - Northamptonshire BF. A black beer with an off-white head. The aroma has chocolate and roasted malts together with a little fruitiness. The taste is fruity and roasty with coffee notes. A nice porter.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Hand pulled at the Wellington, Birmingham. Initial hops in this menacing, black brew, then a crazy, hardcore, bitter and ashy charcoal finish. Thin in the mouth, and the over-the-top aftertaste is almost unpleasant.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask - gravity (Huddersfield BF 2004): Dark reddish brown appearance. Roasted malt and cream aroma. Smooth oatmeal like flavor, dry, roasted coffee finish.
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