3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask, GBBF 10. Dark brown with a thin head. Aromas are chocolate and caramel with molasses and liquorice. Roast coffee with some vinous notes. Flavours are sweet and sour fruitiness with dry coffee. A bit "flabby" on the palate. Average.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at GBBF 2010. A dark brown beer with a red shine under a thin brown head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt and caramel. The flavor is sweet malty with lighter notes of wood and roasted malt. The body is light.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask gravity @ GBBF 2010. Pours a dark brown almost black color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty chocolate aroma. Roasted malty chocolate flavor. Has a roasted malty chocolate finish.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 10, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.
Clear dark black brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, burnt, cold coffee, dark coffee. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, coffee bitter, vanilla notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100803]
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask gravity at GBBF 2010. Ashtray roasty stout. Too ashy for me. Not great. Touch of liquorice
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask Stillage at the GBBF, Earl’s Court 03/08/2010
Chocolate aroma. Black smooth on the palate hoppy and fruity with a hint of dryness in a burnt roast finish.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask@GBBF2010. Quite much pitch black colour with small off-white head. Aroma is liquorice, vanilla, roasted malts, some slight smoked wood and mild chocolate. Flavour is chocolate, liquorice, some mild cocoa, roasted malts and mild hoppyness in the finish.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
3rd August 2010. GBBF
Opaque black beer. Light dry palate. Low carbonation. A little lactose sweetness. Tangy dark malt. Finishes dry - not bad!
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
CASK at BSF GBBF 2010 ... dark brown ... thin bubbly head ... light coffee roast nose ... good solid roast ... liught toffee ... light bitter.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
UPDATED: AUG 10, 2010 (cask GBBF) Resiny hops dance in the nose....with roast coffee and choco roast. miky chocolate ashy malts dance on the palate. they all end up doing the conga.........
3.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask conditioned Gravity Dispense GBBF 2010. A black beer with a small off-white head. A good roasty smoky aroma with a bit of fruit. A bit of roast and a touch of smoke in the mouth but it’s thinner than you’d want and lacks oomph. Not bad though.
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