4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
650ml bottle from Archive Beer Boutique. I usually save the stouts for winter but given all of the rain we have been having it seems to be a good time to have one. And a good stout it is. Pours thick and hearty looking in the glass with a black colour and big frothy tan head. Chocolate, vanilla and coffee in the aroma with a burnt roasted malt flavour that is slightly bitter.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle @ Aarhus tasting. Almost black with a beige head. Aroma is roasted malt and coffee. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and roasted moderate bitter finish. 050313
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Nice head with good duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are dry roast malt, lactose sugar, coffee, chocolate and hops. Nice and mild.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Very dark brown with small beige head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, little coffee, little dark fruits and a little liquorice. Flavour is roated malts, chocolate, little sweet, little dark fruits, little liquorice and a little bitter.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours dark with a creamy brown head. Aroma of mellow sweet chocolate, some sweet english malts, toffee, notes of some dates and just a tiny bit smoked. Taste has some sweet liquorice, a slight note of metal, toffee, sweet english malts and chocolate. Easy drinkable and very light.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Pours a near black color with a thick bubbly tan head. Nose is definitely dry and slightly bitter. Taste is much the same - a little bitter and ry, but roasty. OK, but not great.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
65cl bottle from Beers Of Europe shared with Steve.Very dark brown to black pour with a medium sized creamy beige head.Chocolate,roast malt and vanilla aroma.Flavour of chocolate and roast malt.OK but a little too light on body and alcohol for our taste.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours a dark black with nice dark tan head that sticks around for the long haul. Slight roasted aroma. Nice hop / malt balance.
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2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
cola-colored stout. thin beige head. aroma and flavor are dominated by roasted malts. thin and pretty one-dimensional. disappointed.
2.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 6/20
650 ml bottle.
Pours dark mahogany almost black with a nice thick tan head that quickly dissipates.
There’s a little sourness to the aroma - other than coffee, roasted malts and charcoal.
Thin and watery palate with soft carbonation and a vague bitterness in the finish.
Flavor is hardly present at first, and then only a little smoke and peat.
I’m not really sure what a good dry stout should be like, but this beer is very thin in my opinion. Maybe it’s infected!?
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