3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Gravity at Birmingham Beer Festival 2011. Ruby brown. Thin in mouth and flavour. Some leather and coco pops infused water. Average.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (GBBF2011, Wed)
Dark brown glints. Roasty aroma, a touch of apple. Slightly minerally retronasals. Good roasty malty body, some apple too. Decent malty roast in the finish, quite sweet. Reasonable balance. Pretty OK mild.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
My 500th beer, which is great as this is one of my favourite brewers!
On tap @ Teuchtars. Pours a beautiful opaque chestnut with a red hue around the bottom edges of the glass. The nose has chocolate and hazelnuts. The taste has more dark chocolate which softens into cream and then the hazelnuts follow it in. The palate is medium to large in structure, the texture is thick in creamy and it falls away nicely at the end. Overall, a wonderfully sessionable mild ale.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
On cask at Teuchters. Pours a very dark ruby colour with a thin tan head. Lovely aroma of coffee, roasted malt and caramel. Flavour of coffee again with some caramel, roasty malt and toast. A little chewy with a dry finish. Nice.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at GBBF, 2011. Chestnut brown pour with a beige head. Toffee, caramel and chocolate aroma. Caramel, vanilla and malt flavour. Dry, malty finish.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 14/20
[cask at SRAF’11] Clear dark ruby pour with a thin white head, really inviting colour. On the nose, weak roasted malt with a burnt caramel edge to it. On the tasting, the flavours aren’t quite as powerful, but still there. A good toasty malt backbone runs through the flavour, before the thin finish arrives. Very drinkable [16062011]
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
11 April 2011, on cask. Dark brown/molasses colour, clear. nice burnt barley/bitter coffee aroma. med/thin body and mildly fizzy and kind of watery. watery body carries over to taste. it is like watered down coffee. not a big fan.
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
@ Malt & Hops, Leith. Dark brown. Thin head. A deep roasted molasses character with dark fruit accents - a unique and intriguing aroma. Rich, roasty bitterness and a pleasing sweetness as well. Soft, demerara-like, but the rooty bitterness lends it an Okinawa black sugar feel as well. Nuanced, surprising, in appearance and character like buckwheat honey - a unique mild. Hell yeah.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: JUL 1, 2012 Cask @ The Cask & Barrel, Edinburgh & bottle courtesy of mr_h. Chocolate coffee malt aroma. Reddish black colour. Flavour mild dark chocolate and toffee. Very smooth. Not bad for a mild.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: SEP 26, 2010 Cask @ Malt & Hops, Leith. Opaque ruby-tinted black. Beautiful. Aroma of Grape Nuts, Mumme, pure sweet dark barley juice. Soft, juicy, and loose palate. Really interesting and unique beer. The flavors are long and lingering, with prune and smoke then finishing with a good amount of roast. This is a special brew, served in impeccable condition. Had at another pub and it was slightly thinner, testimony to the changes it undergoes as it develops in the cask.
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