2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle. Black with reddish brown edges, coat of beige head. Aroma has light roasted grain, hazelnuts, herbs, licorice. Taste is very salty and slightly metallic with some roasted malt, cocoa and nut flavours. Sweeter as it warms and the shock of the salt wears off. Quite complex and interesting underneath, but far too salty.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Black with a beige foam. Aromas are rich roast malts with liquorice and blackberry. Floral with burnt notes and dark chocolate. Flavours are gritty roast coffee with dark chocolate bitterness. Grapefruit with lemon. Yeasty and dry on the finish. Good.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle:
Big off white to light brown foamy head on top of a dirty black beer.
Smell honey, toasted malts, sweets, brown sugar, dark fruit, raisin and a hint of wood.
Taste is a strange watery mix of coal, roasted malts, bitter, liquorice
Light bitter and coal a like aftertaste.
Low carbo, low body and soft mouthfeel.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
Light-sweetish stout. Middling creamy head. Chocolate malty flavours predominant. Bready, powdery texture.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
This stout is a bit strange. The intial taste is very herbal and surprisingly different. The aftertaste is more normal. Saw Llanalli win in rugby when I had it.
2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Bottled. Near black, rich firm head. Salty nose with some raw licorice. Dry and clean with watery mouthfeel. Diluted aniseed flavour. Some aluminium in a salty finish. Not great.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
bottle from Bacchus Crickhowell. Deep black colour, nice creamy beige head. Malty nose. Malty, flavours if roasted malt, caramel and smoked ham.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
(bottle) Pours a black coloured hue with a big and dense beige foamy head. Sweet and moderately roasted malty aroma with notes of cacao powder, subtle berry-fruity accents and dusty, slightly plastic-like phenols. Moderately sweet flavoured, well-bodied with a soft carbonation. Slightly roasted malty base with berry-fruity notes and hints of chocolate/cacao; slightly roasty bitter and sourish fruity finish and chocolate in the aftertaste (11.VIII.09).
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