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Brewed by Orkney (Sinclair Breweries)
Style: Stout
Stromness, Scotland

bottled
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available

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RATINGS: 454   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.32   EST. CALORIES: 120   ABV: 4%
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Pasteurised bottle.
NOTE: Please do NOT enter ratings for the cask version here - it has a separate listing.
A black stout which is brimming over with roast malt flavours, balanced with a complex hop blend. Really smooth with roasted aftertaste.


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3.3
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 13/20
argo0 (10365) - Washington DC, USA - SEP 22, 2003
Rocky tan head atop a black body. Aroma is rich chococoffee. Taste is more coffee than chocolate, some burnt roastiness. Finish is strong coffee. Fairly rich for such a low alcohol beer. That being said, the coffee bitterness is too strong for me to enjoy.

2.9
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 11/20
skortila (4166) - Baarn, NETHERLANDS - SEP 19, 2003
Aroma of bread and meat, some notes of something like rauchbier. Overall malty. Very black coloured beer. Brown, remaining head. Taste consists of burned malts, bread, bit metallic, bitter. Malty Palate.

2.7
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 10/20
caesar (3942) - Bunnik/Utrecht, NETHERLANDS - SEP 18, 2003
Black color, large brown head. Aroma is bready, rye, salami. Bit watery bready taste. Bitter metallic chewy palate. I like to drink a beer, not eat one.

3.7
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 14/20
harlequinn (2744) - Tacoma, Washington, USA - SEP 16, 2003
Thick and oily in the pour, like changing oil. We are talking black here, with a huge tan head with little hints of black dipping through in places. Like drinking a cup of coffee with a shot of espresso dropped in for that roasted taste. Full of body and flavor, but kind of one sided. Lots of chocolate and a bit of nutty goodness in the aftertaste. This one does not last very long at all.

3.6
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 15/20
pivo (2540) - GERMANY - SEP 7, 2003
Fairly full chocolate and toast nose, black color with a huge tan head. Thin at first in the body, but full of flavor. Ends with a bitter chocolate bitterness. Predominantly roasted malt tastes. Quick and not complex, but very enjoyable.

3.4
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 5/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
YogiBeera (2435) - Hamburg, GERMANY - AUG 19, 2003
Chocolate, candy sugar, toffee nose - very intense. Medium big rocky hazelnutbrown head on the black liquid. Bitter espresso taste, goes by fast, slightly bitter finsish, suprisingly thin body.

4.6
   AROMA 9/10   APPEARANCE 5/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 5/5   OVERALL 19/20
roomtempbeer (185) - Franklin, Pennsylvania, USA - AUG 8, 2003
Beer pours (in Chimay glass) a dark, rich black liquid light can not penetrate with copper caramel head that lingers. Aroma is of dark, rich coffee and molasses with some chocolate, plum, raisin. Flavor is a slight hop covered by a dark, menacing, lightly-burned coffee that slowly eases away leaving a faint chocolate. Excellent beer. No alcohol detected. Sampled at 72 degrees Fahrenheit.

3.1
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 11/20
brewblackhole (1588) - Muskego, Wisconsin, USA - AUG 8, 2003
Very dark color, lovely choclate head,nice initial coffee chocolate whiff but then a very thin wash in the mouth, youcan taste the cocoa, but you have to chase it.Probaly ok on a hot day.

3.7
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 15/20
johndoughty (3283) - cheslyn hay, West Midlands, ENGLAND - AUG 5, 2003
Dark and dry with a lot more body than I expected from a 4 per center.The dryness shocked me but once I got use to it this became a pleasant drink. Eventually I decided it was like supping a strong dark coffee.Well worth a try.

3.6
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
Cobra (1096) - In a van, down by the river, Maryland, USA - JUL 19, 2003
500 ml. brown bottle. Poured out a deep, chocolate brown color with a rocky, fluffy dark tan head. Aromas right away of roasted malts, expresso, musty old barn. Strong tasting, coffee up front, with an expresso backbone, and an astringent, charcoal finish to it. This is one roasty tasting brute of a beer, even though it has low alcohol content. Actually made me cough, because it was so roasty. Dry mouthfeel, with an aftertaste of burnt wood.


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