Red Squirrel West Coast Stout

Brewed by Red Squirrel
Style: Stout
Hemel Hempstead, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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29th November 2012
The Hope, Carlshalton. Opaque black beer, good pale tan head. Palate is light and airy and smooth with very fine carbonation. Smooth dark malts, mildly tangy. A little lactose and smooth coffee. Mild tangy dark fruits. Semi dry finish. Just a nice stout in very good condition.

Cask conditioned handpump Harp London 30/10/12. A black beer with a whitish head. Bitter roasty coffee in the mouth with a veggy note and decent hop levels.. The nose has hops and light roast. Pretty good.

Creamy and very pleasant chocolate accented dark beer. Soft bitterness in the finish. Lovely.

Cask at the Old Fountain. Black coloured with beige head. Aroma is bit of coffee and a bit of chocolate. Bit oaty too. Taste is very creamy, nice milky chocolate. Very smooth. Everything you would expect from a beer like this and nothing that unusual, but still very nice.

Hand pulled at the Wellington, Birmingham. Very smooth, slightly boiled sweet fruity Stout. Not big on crunch or charcoal/coffee flavours. Certainly nice to drink, but not a maniac.

Cask @ Cask Pub & Kitchen, Pimlico SW1. Pours a dark brown almost black color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty chocolate and coffee aroma with some hoppy hints. Roasted malty coffee and chocolate flavor with some citrus hoppy hints. Has a roasted malty chocolate finish.

Cask at the Wenlock Arms, London. Pours cloudy black with a white head. Dark malt aroma, faint roast. Lightly sweet with some tobacco and roast, very little bitterness. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Finishes dry, chalky and lightly roasty, with some cocoa. Decent.

(Cask at Cask Pub & Kitchen, Pimlico, London, 6 Aug 2010) Very dark brown colour, almost black, with frothy beige head. Roasted, malty nose with coffee, liquorice and a hint of citrus. Roasted, malty taste with notes of chocolate, dark bread and a touch of citric hops in the finish. Rather light body, mainly dry. Well balanced and tasty stout. Nice one.

Cask (Cask & Kitchen, Pimlico) - Dark brown with red tinges. Roasted aroma with hints of coffee, chocolate and hops. Roasted and hoppy taste with notes of coffee, chocolate and dried fruit.

@Wenlock. Medium brown. Thin cask head. The aroma has lots of vanilla. Taste is fairly sweet, dominated by vanilla. Doesn’t come together - vanilla is the west coast of what? Madagascar?