Leeds Midnight Bell

Cask Handpump at the Crown Inn, Stockport 13/06/2009 Fruit and slight roast aromas. Dark coloured strong in alcohol and fruity with a little bitterness and roast flavour in a dry lasting finish.

Cask, Peterborough Fest 09. Dark brown with a beige foam. Aromas are roast, earthy malts with toffee and hints of berry. Flavours are chocolate and light roast malts with peaty notes.

Cask@Peterborough Beer Festival, 2009. Black beer with a reddish tinge. The aroma is lightly smokey, and the flavour is lightly malty. Overall a nice malty and lightly bitter beer.

[RBESG, Sheffield] Cask @ Riverside, Sheffield. Dark brown with a tiny but firm beige head. Roasted malty, coffee, ripe plums. Sweet malty taste with some chocolate, vanilla and a little licorice. Nice one.

Pint pulled at The Midnight Bell in Leeds, pours black. A rich malty aroma, nearly vinuous. But a light and sessionable palate, smokey with hints of coffee. Yum!

Dark brown with no head. Roasted malty aroma. Fruit, berries and roasted malt flavour

[RBESG, Sheffield]
Cask @ Riverside, Sheffield.
Pours deep chestnut with practically no head. Aroma has liqourice, soft roasted malts, blackberries and subdued dark chocolate. Prickly, low carbonation, fine mouthfeel. Flavour has liqourice, soft roasted malts, blackberries and black currants. Fine, softly roasted, dry finish.

[cask @ RBESG 2009] Coffee, vanilla and roasted malt aroma with some plums. Garnet-black and clear. Roasty and toasty black malt with subtle liquorice and a touch of vanilla. Light body, low carbonation, nutty bitter finish.