Farmers Ales Christmas Stout

Brewed by Farmers Ales (Maldon Brewing)
Style: Stout
Maldon, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask gravity, Pig’s Ear. Very deep brown/ruby with no head. Good aroma of choc, bit of plastic, smoke on the flavour. Like smoked mackeral. Dark fruits. Roasted malt on end. OK.

Cask (gravity dispense) at the Pigs Ear Beer Festival, London on 6 December 2006. Reddish brown colour. Not particularly dark for a stout. Caramel and roast malt aroma. More toasty malt, with a light powdering of cocoa on the palate. Mouthfeel is fairly dry and quite light. Palatable but not a lot happening. Could use a bit more oomph.

Bottle 500ml.

Clear medium to dark red brown color with a small to average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, dark malt, smoke - tobacco, light coffee. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration, dark malt, hard roasted. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20100917]

Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of madmitch76. Pours a cloudy dark reddish brown with a beige head. Quite some hard roast in the nose. Medium body, hard roast, raisins and ashes with a very dry and malt bitter finish. 170910

Bottle. Small head with short duration. Color is dark brown. Aroma and taste are roast malt, caramel hops and fruits.

Cask@Pigs Ear BF 06. Quite a light stout. Lightly roasty, with some fruity characters. Some light crystal malt notes. Malty and too light.

Pigs Ear. A bland, slightly wishy-washy, soapy, dull stout of no genuine character. Drinkable, and better than a pale lager. But not much.

Cask conditioned - gravity dispense - Pigs Ear BF. A very dark brown beer with off-white bubbles for a head. The aroma is dry and slightly roasty with some good fruitiness. The taste is roasty and dry. Clean and acceptable, but not really enough stout like qualities.