 cgarvieuk (2540), Edinburgh, Scotland
Oct 3, 2008 Bottle at home ... Deep red brown ... smokey chocolate malt nose ... very fruity very smokey ... quite a lot of berry fruit ...
leaparsons (4001), Leicester, Leicestershire, England
Jun 13, 2008 Bottle. Black with a beige head. Aromas are bitter roast malts with plenty of nuttiness. Some chocolate with yeast. Flavours are bitter coffee with hints of berry fruit. Yeasty and dry with gritty notes and a short finish. Decent, despite its faults.
Fin (2357), Merton, Oxfordshire, England
May 21, 2008 Bottle, Dodgi’ Deli’ Cowley Road 21-05-08 Pours v.dark brown with tan head, some sourness on the nose, fruity and a bit sour in the mouth I don’t get creamy, hoppy, smokey, or chocolate as per description, in short this is a pretty poor stout I’m afraid to say.
Mes_and_Sim (4477), Highgate, Greater London, England
Mar 9, 2008 A Sim rate (cask at Hove BF): Choco-caramel aroma. It’s more like a mocha really. Oaty, sweet, like a sweet Belgian waffle. Dark but not opaque with a red tinge and good lacing. The flavour’s not quite as sweet and chocolately as the aroma. It’s a bit bitter in the finish... like real cocoa.
maeib (4012), Wootton, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England
Sep 8, 2007 Cask conditioned - handpump - Criterion Leicester. A black coloured stout with a losse white coloured head. The aroma when it can be ascertained is very burnt and roasty. The taste is heavy on the coffee. Like the aroma there seems to be a thinness of character. That is the palate feels really thin and the finish short. Drinkable all the same.
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