Pitstop Bitumen

Formerly brewed at Pitstop
Style: Imperial Stout
Wantage, England

Serve in Snifter

Cask (gravity) @ The 16th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2010, Reading, Berkshire England.

Dark brown black color with a small, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, vinegar, tart, plastic - rubber. Flavor is light heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat flat flaaat. [20100430]

Cask (gravity dispense) at Reading Beer Festival, day 2, on 1 May 2009. Black. No head. No condition. Big fat imperial stout. Full, rich and sweet. Lots of licorice and a fair degree of hop smack too. I found it quite well balanced if a touch too sweet for my taste. Bags of flavour.

On gravity at Bristol beer festival, 19/03/10. Near black in colour. Aroma of sweet dried fruit, roasted malts and chocolate. Heavy mouth feel with plenty of warming alcohol. Flavour was very sweet, with candied fruit, caramel and prunes, before a dry finish. A challenging beer, and not particularly pleasant.

Cask, Gravity at Banbury Beer Festival, Oxon, 08-05-09 Pours shark eye black nice bubbly and filmy light beige head. Some soft orange pulpy fruit, bitterness is kept in tow by a dark molasses sweetness. Some coffee grains on the roof of the mouth, Its a little sticky at times but its a fine beer. A7 A3 F7 P4 Ov14 3.5

Cask conditioned at Banbury Beer Fest ’09. Almost black with tan head. Big heavy Impy Stout with sweet, tongue coating, fruity flavours and yes perhaps a little tarry, bitumen flavour thrown in. I never really take to these massive beers, but I can understand the attraction of the dark roast and heavy mouthfeel in certain conditions. It was the 2nd beer of the Festival to go, so there has to be something there for everyone.

UPDATED: MAY 10, 2009 cask @ Reading beer fest. Chriso mentioned this beer, adding it had been brewed in some guys garage and little was known about. That got me intrigued . I digged this from the of.This was drank and sandwitched between a small stream of IMP Stouts and it was maybe my fave. The aroma dancing with roast malt and silky chocolate. Drinking this was just as aroma, with creamy ,hearty roast malt ,chocolate and coffee .Very very rich. Maybe a bit cloying and relentless-but damn flavoursome.

Cask gravity at Reading BF 09. Black, lasting thin tan head. Some roasted malt, quite rich in mouth. Some dark fruits on aroma. Bit sweet on finish. Fairly tough drinking I thought. Interesting but way too sweet.