4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle from Coppers, Newcastle. An inky black beer that pours with a very thin tan head. It has rich blackcurrant and chocolate flavours, liquorice, coffee and roasted notes on the finish. Excellent!
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
330ml bottle
BBE 27.11.13 - Pours pitch black with a large smooth head. Aroma of licorice, ash, roasted malts, hints of chocolate and smoke. Taste is sweetish and salty with notes of licorice, roasty malts, ash and chocolate. Finish is smooth, mildly roasty and salty with licorice and sweet notes. Okay, quite tasty porter.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Very drinkable. Dark colour. Coffee flavour. Relatively light bodied in comparrison with some porters.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Dark brown almost black beer with a small beige head. Chocolate, licorice, ashes and coffee aroma. Coffee, vanilla, licorice, dark chocolate, hoppy flavour.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle 330ml.
ABV: 7.5%. Clear dark red brown colour with a large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, fully lasting, light beige head. Aroma is light heavy malty, roasted, coffee - dusty coffee, light burnt. Flavour is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, dusty coffee, licorice. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20121208]
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Tap at Redchurch Brewery, Bethnal Green, London. A dark brown/black coloured pour with a small tan head on top. Roasty, malty, burnt aroma. Tastes roasty, chocolate, coffee, malty. Decent but not as good as their Old Ford Export Stout.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Keg at the brewery tap room, London. Pours dark brown-black with a tight, tan cream head. Dark chocolate in the nose, rich coffee, espresso. Medium swet flavor with heacy baking cocoa, scorched earth, burnt wood, dried dark berries, robust coffee. Medium to full bodied with lively carbonation. Lightly warming finish, gourmet coffee, some baking cocoa and earthy bitterness. Exceptional stuff.
4.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle at home, 25th January 2013, this is delicious, dark brown, black with a tan head, aroma is smoke and bitter chocolate, taste is complex, lots of flavours, smoke, some leather and lots Of chocolate with a Pleasant citrus hop finish, reasonably fizzy but it works with this beer. Great stuff
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle at ChrisO tasting, thanks to Toby, 30/12/12.
Very dark mahogony brown with a thin tan head that reduces to a film and heads egeward.
Nose carries hops, pine, dark malt, chocolate, caramelised sugars, hint of coffee.
Taste follows, tropical fruits in a hoppy backnote.
Full end of medium bodied with soft carbonation, some hop bitterness in a roasted finish.
Decent.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle from the legendary Kris Wines. This was a devious delayed gusher! I opened it, left it to warm for a few minutes, and returned to find half of it on my table. The pour’s deep brown with a full tan head. The nose is sweet chocolate syrup, some nuts, ash, roasted malts. Hints of smoke. The taste is milk chocolate. Earthy bitterness. More ash. Hints of vanilla, wood. Some espresso. Bitter, dry finish. Thick, rich mouthfeel. Nice and creamy. Overall, a pretty excellent beer (gushing excepted). Redchurch certainly know how to do dark beers!
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