Farmers Ales Christmas Stout

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

Serve in English pint

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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 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 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.