4.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle from Coppers, Newcastle. A black beer that pours with a thick brown head. It has very rich chocolate and liquorice flavours with spicy American red fruity and citrus hops and coffee on the finish. Superb!
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
As far as I can tell, this only comes bottled. Tried with Paul at a restaurant off Brick Lane on Guy Fawkes day, 2011. Roasted malts, chocolate predominating, leads the assault on your senses. There is a counter attack at the edge spearheaded by hops, a subtle pine needley afterburn.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Aroma: Light coffee, chocolate, dark fruits and licquorice.
Appearance: Jet black body with a huge tan head that retains well. Excellent lacing.
Taste: Nice roasted malt flavours. Some coffee and chocolate. The flavours are quite subtle and not as powerful as other stouts and porters I’ve tried. Even still, this is delicious and very moreish.
Palate: Thin to medium body with a silky texture. Soft carbonation.
Overall: Beautifully balanced - a luscious, tasty beer. Perhaps just a tad on the thin side.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
330ml bottle. Darkest brown colour with huge, creamy, fully lasting, moderately lacing, tan head. Roasty dark malty aroma, even a touch of smoke, herbal hoppy overtones. Taste is bitter hoppy with roasty dark malty and chocolately basis; prickling carbonation, lasting dry, bitter, roasty finish.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Oct 2012 - mild, sweet, smokey, slightly chocolatey stout. Tastes good. Slight carbonation.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
In bottle. Pours a very dark brown colour with a decent tan head. A nice roasty chocolate and Weetabix malt nose with a little pine hop coming through. Similar flavours with moderate carbonation and a foamy mouth-feel. Nice.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Tap at southern. Black with a tan head. Nice big roasty aroma, ashy, almost smokey, coffee and burnt toast. Flavour follows suit, heavily roasted and ashy. Decent body with a clean finish. My kind of stout
3.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle at home, 15th November 2012. Aroma is sweet some smoke and ash, nice looking drink, perfect head. Taste is ash and cocoa some hops also, reminds me of kernel style stout. Good beer, love it
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle at home in London. Pours dark brown with a foamy, beige head. Dry, roasted cocoa aroma, with notes of dirt, moss and burnt wood. Medium sweet flavor, baking cocoa, light grassy bitterness, nice roasted malts. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Some chalky, roasted malts in the finish, earth and grass, dirt, mild peat, baking cocoa, dark chocolate. Nicely balanced, easy-drinking stout. Good work.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Keg at the Hanging Bat yesterday ie 20123-04-03 Edinburgh
AR: heavy roasted malt, chocolate etc you know
AP: black, stouthy cream brown head
F: heavy roasted malt, chocolate, coffey, heavy bitterness, cacao nibbles
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