Hornbeam Black Coral Stout

Brewed by Hornbeam
Style: Stout
Denton, England

Serve in English pint

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Bottle. Dark brown with a beige foam. Aromas are lightly roast malts with earthy peat. Caramel with hints of berry and chocolate. Flavours are sweet chocolate and berry fruit with earthy apple. Dry and yeasty with light roast bitterness on the finish.

500ml bottle. Dark brown with good creamy off-white to beige head. Dark malt, roasty aroma, some sweetness, toffee. Bit monotonous taste, but a harmonical integration of roast, bitter and sweet notes, dryer finish. Very smooth.

Tasted this in The Three Judges, Glasgow in February 2009. Cask, handpump dispense. Black ruby in colour with a open bubbled white head. Sweet treacle toffee in the short aroma. Oily texture in the mouthfeel and poor lacing. Dark malts give a rich maltloaf base and strong overtones of coffee beans, bitter chocolate and sweet treacle. Dusty hop resins give a metallic tang to the short aftertaste. Finish is malty and dry with oak cask notes mixing it with roasted walnuts. A moreish stout this and well recommended.

(Cask at Market Porter, London Bridge, London, 18 May 2011) Dark brown colour, almost black, with frothy beige head. Malty, roasted nose with dark bread, raisins and coffee. Malty, roasted taste with notes of dark bread, raisins, prunes, roasted nuts, hints of coffee and chocolate. Some coffee bitterness coming through in the finish. Slightly more than medium body, with a touch of sweetness in the finish. Nice one

Cask (gravity) @ Paisley Beer Festival 2011. Dakr brown colour, tan head. Aroma is light roasted malts, bit of coffee. Flavour is roasted malts, bit of coffee. Fruity finish.

Cask at NWAF, 2011. Black pour no head. Coffee, raisins, roasted malts and dark fruit aromas. Flavours of raisins, chocolate and vanilla. Quite a dry mouthfeel. Dry, malty finish.

7th December 2007
Pigs Ear Festival, Hackney. Lots of dark malt but mild and fruity. Dry palate. Very slight bitterness in the finish.

[cask at Cloisters, Edinburgh] Pours very dark, opaque. Some flecks of redness running through it. Thick off-white head at first, but reduces pretty quickly to a lacing. Aromas of chocolate malt, dark roastiness, fruit. On the palate after the dark, fruity malt flavours it becomes more of a coffee finish. Very drinkable stout [13102010]

On cask at the Bow bar. Pours a mostly black color with a medium beige head. The aroma is sweet toffee, light caramel and berries. The flavor is similar; a sweet mix of caramel and toffee, some light bitterness, raisins and berries. Nice.

Cask Handpump at the Magnet Inn, Stockport 27/03/2010 Some roast aroma. Dark red coloured and a little rich on the palate with a hint of bitterness in a dry roast finish.