3.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Aroma of chocolate, toffee, butter nips and waffle cone. Appearance is black with tan head. Flavor is messy; chocolate waffle cone with bitter, dark chocolate finish. Palate is bubbly with tight carbonation. Good.
4.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
On bottle with good friend
Black color, a little foam
Medium/full body & high complexity
Some coffee aromas
Very good
---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Aroma and taste of roasted malt, chocolate, alcohol and coffee. The tone is a bit vineous. A perfectly good Stout!
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
625 ml Bottle reviewed on it’s best before date (Sep 2011).
I was really impressed, this looked, smelled and tasted like a good quality Stout. Lovely velvety looks, those rich, smooth malty aromas of roasted and toasted barley just carried on into the mouth. Chocolate and mild Coffee flavours linger in the mouthfeel as the brew level slips slowly down the glass.
One of the simpleist and best tasting Stouts I’ve had, ever.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Medium, beige head over jet-black beer. Tobacco, green herbs, a tad soapy, sunflower seeds or sunflower oil. Liquorice, smoked meat, estery, bit ashy. Again a (very) oily impression, strange meaty esters. Quite well-bodied, warming, slick. Less impressive than when tasted for the first time (+/_ 20 yrs. ago...); bit stomm a pretty pleasing, if oily stout.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Smell is sweet and rich, like a stout should be, in my opinion. Taste follows through on my expectations from the aroma. I was surprised at how good this is considering it came from a can, and from Sri Lanka.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle from Appellation. Pours a black colour with a fair tan head. Aroma of rum liqueur chocolates, alcohol, roasty malt and Weetabix. A Weetabix flavour again upfront with sweet milky hot chocolate also. Alcohol is well balanced and warming with rum and dark chocolate characters lingering nicely. Mild carbonation and CO2 prickle with an oily mouth-feel. Nice but a little sweet for me.
3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours almost black with brownish red head. Nice aromas of molasses and brown sugar. Sweet stout, but very balanced and never cloying. A nice strong dark chocolate and whiskey finish. Delicious stout.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Finally had a chance to try this one. Nice dark black colour with brown head (large bubbles). Aroma of chocolate milk and smoke. Taste is sweet, a touch of roastedness, but this is kind of like a sweet stout or a milk stout. Creamy texture. Quite nice.
4.7 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
12 oz bottle from Baruni’s Hotel and Grill in Baden, PA. Gotta agree with the master Michael Jackson in saying this is one of the ten best beers in the world. Some may say it’s too sugary, but I find no problem with the sweet side, nor can I find anything that would detract from the perfection of this amazing stout. Hoping to visit Sri Lanka some day to see if it tastes even better fresh from the source.
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