Goffs Black Knight

Brewed by Goffs
Style: Porter
Winchcombe, England

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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Bottle , Cardinal, Stavanger. Black colour with a tan head. Aroma is dry, coffee, cocoa, fruit. Flavour is dry, coffee, chocolate, roastiness, fruit, hop. Easy drinkable nice beer.

Close to a brown ale in character, smoth, nuts, vanilla and milk chocoalte. Rather thin on the minus side.

Cask Conditioned handpump Malt Shovel Northampton. A black beer with a little beige head. Lots of coffee in the nose. Roasty too. Bitter and roasty taste. A bit of fruit behind the coffee in the nose. a good beer which is a stout in my book. Very dry.

(bottle conditioned) giant beige clouds above a lake of tar
nose is a cluster of ..roast chocolate malts... winey raisins dancing in the air
tastes like a full bodied Porter should . Good construct.

[cask at the Wellington, Birmingham] Dark black pour with a decent tan head, obviously well kept. Aromas of coffee and bitter malt, flavours of roast coffee and bitter chocolate. Very drinkable indeed, good roasty porter [18112010]

The color is mahogany-red and the headis creamy. The aroma has notes of roasted malt, caramel, licorice and hints of butterscotch and ashes. The flavour has a light sweetness and notes of roasted malt, licorice, caramel and the finish is rather dry with notes of bitter licorice. It’s quite nice.

Bottle 500ml.

Clear dark brown color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, chocolate, light vanilla. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a long to average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100629]

Bottle, 5.3%. Sweet aroma, mildly roasted, lactose. Very dark brown colour, red shine. The flavour is roasted with some barley bitterness. Dark chocolate and chocolate bitterness also.

Cask Stillage at the New Century Hall, Manchester 21/01/2006 Dark coloured slightly rich on the palate and fruity with a hint of malt in the finish.

Bottled@The 1st Vaasa CS/ES beer session (thanks JP). Very deep ruby red colour, close to black, with a small beige head. Aroma is roasted malts, some coffee, mild chocolate as well as some slight nuttyness. Flavour is quite much the same with also some smoked wet wood and mild vanillaish notes. Semi-bitter finish.

A dark brown colored beer, with a thick foamy beige head. The aroma of malts with chocolate and a little bitter. The taste is bitter with some caramel. There is fruit, some sweet and hints of chocolate. A little dry. The aftertaste of chocolate with some bitter and notes of sweet.