3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle 275ml.
Clear light dark brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige to light brown head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, bread, burnt, caramel. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and light to moderate bitter with a long duration, bread, caramel, roasted, raisin, sweet malt, chocoalte malt. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120330]
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Medium brown head. Opaque black body. Sugary metallic caramel pudding aroma with chocolate notes. Sweet-dryish milky chocolatey taste with earthy notes. Mid-bodied. Very mild and smooth mouthfeel. Dryish roasty chocolatey aftertaste with coffee and caramel notes. Some funky character to it, too. Nice and drinkable, and very smooth. Interesting. (0.275l bottle, Wellcome, Lohas Park, Hong Kong.)
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
A nice stout. After it sat in the fridge for about a week the flavor was greatly improved
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
11.16oz bottle - pours so much foam that I’m typing this with a bunch of beige foam in my mouth. Black in color with nice lacing already. Flavor is chocolate, caramel, roasted malts and metal. Clearly sweet, especially to the lips. Toffee aftertaste. Really nice and smooth.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle @ FOneFan. very dark brown with small beige head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate and a little caramel. Flavour is roasted malts, sweet, chocolate, coffee, little caramel and a little bitter.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Almost black with a dark brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, heavy chocolate and cocoa. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Sweet and roasted moderate bitter finish. 300312
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle at home in Barbados. Pours to form a nice looking drink, yellow tan head. Good smokey aroma. Nice balance of sweet and bitter, some coffee and mocha. Good beer, better than I had hoped. Getting a stock in the fridge
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
It is a beer dark and complex as the label would imply but ’triple stout’ does not mean darker and bolder. There are more spices and roasted malts mixed together than other stouts.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Mildly sweet and malty throughout. Not bad, drinkable but not exceptional.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
THE CARIBBEAN VERSION BREWED BY CARIB. ’Triple Stout’, no less. Bottles and cans walking to Berts, along Accra beach Xmas night, at Oistins fish fry in physical pain from the level of bass, at The Fisherman’s Pub, Speightstown, happy hour at The Reggae Lounge, St Lawrence, on the balcony, at The Jenners New Year’s Even, even. My tipple of choice in Barbados, when I saw it. Glossy, onyx beer with a cratered yellow-tan head. A beer that utterly eclipses the pale shadow of those (Guinness, Mackeson) it was presumably brewed to imitate. Aroma of fudge smeared on rusty girders; smoked kippers, almonds. Slippery, full and utterly convincing with a tropical-suited, sugared slickness brilliantly counterpoised by bitter, espresso roast and a distinctly irony tang completely absent from most British/US stouts...stouts full stop come to think of it except some of those amped up to 11 with ABV and sugar. Thick, soupy, meal-like, almost bloody..and shockingly bitter/sweet in the finish like black coffee with 3 brown sugars..or Guinness Original when I first tried it as a 15 year old. Fantastic, evocative, surprising beer thick with sugar, coffee-accented roast and history.
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