Fyne Ales Cobbler Stout

Brewed by Fyne Ales
Style: Stout
Cairndow, Argyll, Scotland

Serve in English pint

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Cask at CP&K Brighton. It pours deep brown, with a thick beige head. The nose is caramel, brown bread, salted caramel, gravy and weirdly enough something that resembles cat-litter. The taste is bitter, leather, roasted malt, touch of chocolate, caramel, burnt tire, meaty, charcoal and toast, with a long dry finish. Medium body and soft carbonation. So-so.

Cask at Euston Tap, London. A dark red/black coloured pour with a healthy beige head on top. Roasty, chocolate, dark fruit aroma. Tastes roasty, malty, caramel, dark fruit, a little dry. Not bad but certainly not Fynes best effort.

Cask at the Prince of Wales, Aberdeen, Scotland.
Reddish brown colour with small light tan head. Dry skunky hops, moderate bitterness and liquorice in aroma. Heavy bitterness, liquorice and dry maltiness in flavour. Linguering bitterness. Extremely balanced.

Cask at The Prince of Wales, Aberdeen. Pours clear, red-brown with a tight, creamy tan cap. Gorgeous aroma, all sweet chocolate, roasted malts, hints of burnt earth. Decent flavor, though not as good as the aroma. Quite a bit of burnt wood, burnt toast, and burnt grass in the flavor. Light to medium sweet. Light to medium in body with fine, smooth carbonation. Dry, gritty bitter finish with charcoal, burnt grass and rubber, subtle bittersweet cocoa. Decent beer overall.

[cask at Cloisters Bar, Edinburgh] Deep reddish-black, with a tight cream-coloured head resembling a pint of Guinness. There’s a fruity aroma, reminiscent of the Vital Spark, and some chocolate on the nose from the malt. Tastewise, light coffee edge before a lot of blackcurrant and blackberry fruit come out, along with some faint vanilla on the end. Like all of their beers, it’s very dry, and very sessionable. At 4.2%, the body is never going to dominate – but the mix of flavours on the aftertaste more than make up for it [08022012]

Cask at The Barrels Ale House. Black with beige head. Coffe and chocolate. Bitter coffee rind finish. Not bad.

On cask at Cloisters. Pours a dark brown colour with a decent, light tan head. Aroma of pine, roasty malt, chocolate and coffee. Similar flavours with mild carbonation. Tasty.

On tap during launch at Cloisters, Edinburgh. Pours opaque black with a fawn cream head. The nose has interesting notes of blackcurrant and blackcurrant leaf against a delicate dark chocolate note. The taste has more of that blackcurrant intermingled with the expected coffee notes. The palate has a lighter than expected body, with a creamy texture and a clean finish. Overall, this is not what I expected - a good beer but is it a stout. They have their own style - I thought the Sublime was closer to a black IPA, but very good, so maybe they just don’t do really creamy beer.

Cask at Cloisters launch event. Reddish black pour, thick tan head. Nose is big red fruits, chocolate roast, hint of coffee. Smooth sweet roast, hint of chocolate, long roast finish. Very nice.

Cask by handpump at The State Bar, Glasgow - pours reddish black with a small tan head and roasted malt aroma, quite sweet for a stout, well balanced and smooth to drink, I like this one