London Brewers Alliance Collaborative Stout 2012

Brewed by The Kernel
Style: Stout
London, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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Bottle from Coppers, Newcastle. Inky black with a rapidly disappearing thin brown head. It has very rich roasted coffee, chocolate and liquorice flavours with slight sour fruitiness and more chocolate and coffee on the finish. Fantastic!

Bottle at home from ales by mail
Dark tan corona on a dark brown beer with grey Brown head. Rich vient toast dark chocolate, blackcurrant, rich tobacco. Thick chocolate and roast barley, low carbonation quite sweet with dry finish.

Inky and oily, black as a tar pit. Burnt coffee goodness. Got that unmistakable 1925 taste. Another winner in a brown paper bag label.

bottle at home ..., deep black ... small tan head ... soft sweet chocolate roast ... light dark roast ... hints of coffee ... bitter roast ... deep rich roast malts ... soft milky tones ... heavy roast malts ... nice

UPDATED: MAR 6, 2013 On gravity at the winter beer festival, the Three Tuns, Bristol 23/2/2013. Near black with a tight, off-white head. Big, bitter chocolate, smooth roasted grains, a touch of dark fruit and pleasantly dry finish. Ridiculously easy drinking, a half pint easily went down and was immediately followed by a full one. My beer of the festival. Excellent all round.

Bottle from Beermerchants. Pours thick and oily dark brown with a huge creamy tanned head. Aroma of dark malts, coffee and dark bitter chocolate. Taste is rich dark malts, traces of coffee, light roasted, bitter chocolate, English liquorice, smooth mouthfeel. Lingering moderate dry liquorice and coffee, very good.

33cl bottle from the brewery. It pours a dark brown, almost black colour with a medium beown head. Foam is sticky and quite lasting. Aroma is intense and complex with chocolate and wood above all. Coffee and roasted malts as well. Taste is sweet-ish with nice bitterness form the woody roasty quality to cut trough it. Chocolate and coffe again, with hints of vanilla and peat. Body is quite full with good carbonation. Overall, very good.

CBC. Black with abrown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, coffee, chocolate and liquorice. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and roasted rather bitter finish. 030513

330ml bottle- my 50th Kernel. Kind of. Thick, glossy black skimmed with dirty beige. Drinking chocolate, grilled veg, chocolate eclair left in the toaster too long aroma. Deep, soft, burnt chocolate character imbued with balance and bittersweetness. Hop/roasted malt-bitter; fine, quintessentially stouty. Hints of raisin, anise, coal smoke, dry roasted seeds and nuts. Serious. Merest tang of sour. Nice.

Bottled. Quite much pitch black colour, small brown head. Aroma is mild roasted notes, caramel, chocolate, coffee, cookies and some quite nice sweetish notes. Hard to fully describe, but really lovely. Flavour is toffee, roasted malts, some old coffee and mild chocolate. A bit empty in the flavour compared to the aroma.