3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask Conditioned at Banbury Beer festival ’05. Deep black with bubbly tan head. Sweetish nose with a smokey note, the beer is a tasty mix of fruity and smokey, full and rich. A distinct blackberry note on the finish with a bark flavour. Lovely Jubbly.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask conditioned - gravity dispense - Banbury BF. A black coloured porter with a sweet slightly hoppy aroma. The taste is excellent and reminded me of an American porter somewhat. It is very smooth and slightly sweet but there is plenty of charcoal and licquorice mixed in. My beer of the fest.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask (handpump) at the Babington (JDW) Derby. Deep black, sweet like chocolate, smooth all the way, great stuff.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Gravity cask @ Reading Beer Festival 2006. A little roast to start. Sweet blackcurranty malts. Easy drinking and relaxing.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Gravity at Banbury Beer Festival. Sampled with Maeib. Light, perhaps oiley mouthfeel. Sweetened Porter, honey toned, with a malty cereal finish. Nice stuff.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
A Mes rate: Gravicask at Sussex Beer Festival.
Black as night with a thin tan head. Aroma is very sweet and topped up with cereal and some fresh unbrewed malt, very green. Flavour is better. In all hoesty this isn’t usually my thing, milky ceral and almost tea but not quite. Good malt, nice hops, well balanced, especially in the finish. Really tasty and interesting, even if my notes do make it sound crap. Much more old ale than porter by the way.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
(Cask at White Horse, Parson’s Green, London, 27 Nov 2010) Black colour with ruby hints when seen through light. Brief head. Roasted, malty nose with notes of coffee, dark fruit, dark bread and hints of chocolate. Roasted, malty taste with dark fruit, raisins, prunes, dark bread and mild coffee bitterness. Medium body, quite sweet. Nice and well made porter.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Tasted this in Spooners Bar, Porthmadog in July 2009. Jet black in colour with ruby tones around the edges and a thick creamy buff head. Strong aroma of roast malt and instant coffee evident. Creamy mouthfeel and good lacing. Dark malts give a roast grain flavour with mocha coffee and bitter chocolate flavours, along with a big juicy base of blackcurrant fruit. Interesting wood smoke flavour to the hop resins in the long aftertaste. Sweet molasses appear in the long complex malty finish. Tastes stronger than the abv suggets. Well recommended.
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3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
On gravity at the Tewkesbury Beer festival, 4/02/2011. Jet black, with a slick of tan passing as a head. Sweet, berry fruit and chocolate aroma, with robust roasted malts. Flavour of oat grains, prune and charcoal, with some sweet black currant in the finish. Enjoyable.
3.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Gravity fresh @ Pig's Ear Festival, East London. Dark. Not much aroma, but a sexy mouthfeel. Soft chocolate. Delicious. Soft melting finish. Some vine fruits. A good 'un.
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