4.2 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask at Chelmsford Winter BF, and easily my favorite of the festival. Even though i didn’t want to be that guy who liked the strongest beer available. Oh well. Huge, sweet dark-chocolate nose. Bittersweet flavor with lots of chocolate and toffee, caramel and coffee. Well-rounded flavor and soft, somewhat thick mouthfeel. Roasty, toffee aftertaste. Just delicious and dangerous.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle at a tasting. Pours dar, red-brown with a small, beige head. Some dark chocolate in the aroma, bit of varnish. Sweet, slightly tangy, some tires, nice roast and burnt malts. Full bodied with fine carbonation. Mild warm finish, some dark sugar, toffee, some dark fruits. Surprisingly good.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottled. Very black colour, small brown head. Aroma is ccaramel malts, some roasted notes as well as toffee. Flavour is quite much the samel, it’s very sweet still very wellbalanced. A bit vintage feeling over it.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
27.5 cL bottle, courtesy of fiulijn. Pours dark brown to black with a small off-white to tan head. Roasted dark malt, mild ashtrayish. tarish, roasted malt and dark breadish. Ends mild acidic and lingering dark chocolate malty. Thick and roasted finish.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle at Chris-Os Pre GBBF 09 tasting ... Deep black ... licorice roast malts ... sweet roast toffee ... good roast ... nice
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled 275ml
Bottle from Chris O, thanks.
Opaque black color, small steady brown head. Burnt malts, licorice, paper, Mikkeller Black kind of liquid rubber in the nose. Lots of licorice, roasted malts, some sweeter notes. Very good althoug simple flavor, but background is a bit empty.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle 275ml. @ Chriso’s pre GBBF Shindig ’09.
Clear dark red brown color with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is light heavy malty, roasted, caramel, licorice, light chocolate. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090801]
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
26th April 2009
Opaque black stout. Fresh semi dry palate. Lively tangy malt with a lactose sweetness and a distinct apples and pears fruity finish. Very drinkable with an unusual finish. Nice one Felstar!
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from Pig’s Ear festival in London, 2008
Black color; small head. Aroma of cardboard, glue, paint, vanilla oak, liquorish; it may sound weird, but it’s interesting. Breadish beer, with strong liquorish flavor, chocolate malt, oxidised. A bit strange but interesting.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled. A brown beer with an off-white head. The aroma has notes of roasted and sweet malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt, chocolate, and bread, leading to a dry finish. Thanks fiiulijn for sharing.
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