3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle, 275ml. Poured black, creamy and thick. Pure white head. Aroma of chocolate, malt. Milk chocolate taste (i think they use milk in the brewing), creamy and smooth to drink with a bitter malt finish. This is a heavy, rich beer, so not one for sessions, but altogether enjoyable in moderation.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
A very dark brown beer with a thick brown head. The aroma is sweet roasted with a slight hint of chocolate. The flavor is sweet roasted, but without power both in body and roastiness, and the sweetness has an artificial tinge - cant’t think why. Too weak for me - but for a light stout it is nice.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Can at the Feathers, Chorlton 03/07/2004
Black smooth on the palate and sweet. Slightly dry finish.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
UPDATED: FEB 9, 2006 A little like a Pepis, perhaps, was too soft and was black, endeed, but it needs to get more character.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
I had no hopes for this fellow. Aroma is minimal, woith malt kickin in. Taste is sweetish but malty and better than expected to be honest.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Can bought at Sainsbury’s. Pours an opaque black with a thin head. Coffee and caramel aroma. Medium body with a sweet mal and coffee taste. Not bad but too thin for a stout
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled. A black stout with a tan head. The aroma has some licuorice and sweet caramel whereas the taste has a little roastiness together with some coal, more sweetness and some red licquorice. A nice sweet stout.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: MAR 30, 2005 A classic English stout that is often dismissed by beer drinkers because of its paltry 3% abv and its popularity with women and elderly men. It’s a sweet stout, which means exactly what that implies. Anyone expecting an imperial is destined to be disappointed. This is no session stout - it’s too sweet to drink in any quantity - but it would be great with a bitter chocolate cake. It poured a treacle colour with a frothy coffee-coloured head. The aroma has licorice and espresso notes. The mouthfeel is velvet smooth and the body is firm, with minimal carbonation. There are hints of cappuccino and dried fruit in the middle before the sweet, lightly alcoholic finish. It’s all sweet malt and minimal bitterness. Very more-ish but I imagine more than two of these would be like guzzling several boxes of chocolates. (Bottle)
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Almost 100 years since it’s conception, this one didn’t age well. Tasted from the squat can, it poured a deep dark reddish brown, with a thin dense tan head. Aroma (if any?) of ovaltine, dank liquor and copper pipes. In the mouth it was smoothed out with a cloying maltiness. It reminded me of a cold mocha-latte, with a shot of whisky in it. Low carbonation, no roasted or lactose highlights, and a short, mildly sweet swallow. I think this one is best suited to the history books, rather than the pint glass.
2.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
From a can.Almost black in colour,no head,smells like burnt milk and coffee,quite sweet.
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