3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask at Kingston BF, 28th June 2008, with renffisch. Black with a tiny line of head. Great aroma - dark chocolate, smoke, figs, red fruit and liquorice. Things don’t let up when you start sipping - peaty notes, red wine and plums finish the job that the nose started. A smoky finish wraps things up nicely. A good stout that’s not for wimps.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle conditioned. Dark brown with a thin foam. Aromas are roast malts with decent smokiness. Berries with plummy and vinous notes and some pepper. Flavours are iniatialy smooth plain chocolate, soon replaced by lots of vinous notes. Tangy with dark chocolate bitterness on the finish. Decent.
3.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
gravicask @ kingston bf 08. sweet liquorice nose with dark chocolate and figs. pitch black in colour, fine light tan rim. Flavours of barley, coffee, burnt wood and charcoal. very bitter herbal finish, overly dry. full on dark mild.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask (gravity) Nottingham Beer Festival 2005. Thick brown body, evaporated head. Rough roasty malts, a little liquid liquorice, good bodied and well balanced.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask gravity Notts BF 05. Very dark brown colour, no head. Liquorice and roasted malts. OK in mouth, some oiliness. Liquorice, choc finish with some espresso coffee. Fine beer.
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