Fuller’s Black Cab Stout (Bottle)

Brewed by Fuller’s
Style: Dry Stout
London, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Bottle. Pours black with a thin, tan head with good lacing. Aroma is malt, dark chocolate, vanilla and caramel. Taste is mild bitterness with some sweetness. Thin bodied with slight carbonation.

Bottle: Black colour, thin brown head. Aroma dominates of caramelly, vanilla,dark choclate. Flavor had a smouth maltynes, fruity and caramelly, sweet maltynes is domiated here. Thin body, medium dark choclate finish.

500 mL bottle from Westholme Stores in Goring. Black with a good creamy brown head. Nicely blended chocolate malt aroma. Roasty, with a strong malt taste to it. Pretty nice, but also a little harsh with bitter dryness.

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(Bottle). Scent of sweet syrup, malt, brown sugar and dried fruit. The taste is a bit burnt and has hints of syrup, licorice, brown sugar and sweet malt. The taste also feels a bit watery. I love the stout’s but this one I think is pretty dull!

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Looks fantastic. The beer looks dark brown as it comes out of the bottle and black in the glass. Beige head. Excellent head retention. Khaki bubbles are all over the walls of the glass, marking each pause between sips. The aroma is cocoa, coffee roast, caramel malt and a mildly fruity English yeast tying it all together. It’s not terribly strong and in your face, but it has that rich, full aroma of Fuller’s beers. I’m not sure if it’s from the malt or the yeast. Something about Fuller’s beers just seems to ooze quality. At any rate, the combination of chocolate and coffee on top of caramel sweetness works quite well. The taste brings more coffee and a drier overall profile. The milk chocolate and caramel sweetness still come through, but the dry roastiness and an earthy hop flavor balance it out more than expected. Tons of flavor for a 4.5% abv beer. More American brewers need to figure out how to pack this much flavor into a <5% abv beer. Creamy, smooth mouthfeel. One of the best attempts at a cask feel for a bottled beer that I’ve tried. This is a fantastic beer. I would be thrilled to drink it regularly and in quantity. It might be the best low abv stout that I’ve ever tried. I tend to get a bit excited by well-done English beers, and this is a great example to find at my local store, which is more than 5000 miles from Griffin Brewery. So, that’s nice. Anywho, Black Cab is an excellent beer, and I’d love to see it included in the fantastic Fuller’s regular lineup.

Bottle. Pours opaque black with red highlights and a cinnamon-cream head. Nose is dried fruit and toast with nice port-like overtones. Roasty, but with a dry cleanness that is really refreshing. Finishes long with an echo of the fruit. Fine beer.

Mild nose chocolate. Beige head fast dissappearing. Dark red black color. Dry malty and coffeyish hopped taste. OK stout.

Bottle. 4/5/13. Best before 9/30/13. Pours very dark brown-black with a thick, bubbly light tan head. Aroma is dry, bread, fruit, grass, floral, nutty (hazelnut). Taste is dry, fruit (apples?), dark chocolate, chalky, hints of bitter malts in the finish (more dark chocolate). Lots of lacing. Light-bodied. Medium carbonation. Really great. Very full flavored. Tasty. Drinkable.