Exmoor Beast (Cask)

1. Cask Handpump at the Penny Black, Northwich (JDW) 31/10/2001 Black strong in alcohol and roasted. Warming bitter hop finish. 2. Cask Handpump at the Waterhouse, Manchester (JDW) 29/10/2003 Dark strong and fruity. Slightly chocolaty crisp roast finish. 3. Bottle 14/06/2004 Dark strong slightly rich and fruity. Some bitterness in a malt finish. 4. Cask Handpump at the Penny Black, Northwich 13/03/2005 Black strong and fruity. Some dryness and roast in a warming finish. 5. Cask Handpump at the Penny Black, Northwich 15/03/2005 Dark red slightly rich strong and fruity. Some dryness and bitterness in a malt finish.

From A Bottle.Black in colour with a nice ruby red hue,medium head, aroma is of dark malt and peanuts, taste is of dark malt,chocolate,smoke and some bitter coffee. A great porter,very smooth,a deceiver,I won’t be going up on the moors tonight.

Cask (gravity) at Burton Winter Ales Festival 2005. A porter with muscle. Dark brown, roasty whiff, sweet finish with crystalline fruits anf buttered nuts, deceptive palate for a stronger ale, probably beer of the festival for me.

Too sweet, too cloying, and generally overdone. A beer that doesn’t know what it wants to be. Nasty.

Cask conditioned - handpump - White Horse - Parsons Green London SW6. A very dark brown beer with a short-lived tan coloured head. A bit of roast and smoke in the aroma. The taste has caramel, licquorice and an oily texture. Very drinkable.

Hand pulled at the White Horse, Parsons Green, London (as part of their Old Ale festival), with Joeh and Maeib. Dark brown, no head and a Porter style smell (this as written not knowing the style of the beer!) Very smooth and clean. Nice, sweet roast flavour, very slight increased sweetness on the finish. Nice enough strong ale - better than the Moonrakers.

Cask conditioned at the White Horse, Parsons Green, London. Roasty beer with malt and coffee/chcocolate notes, slightly sweet but more than anything Roasty.

A good brew. Roasty, malty flavours detected, but also some sweet dark fruit flavours. It doesn’t feel like a 6.6% beer, which I found to my cost! Very good.