3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
(Bottled) Headless blackness . Dark fruit bathing in burnt chocolate. Not as syrupy or relentless as I’d expect for a ’Chocolate Stout’ , that’s what it claims on the bottle @ least.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at Southampton Arms. Dark brown, almost black colour with small golden head. Aroma is coffee, chocolate, bit roast malt and tiny bit of milkiness. Taste is more creamy, lots of chocolate and roasted malt. More roasty than chocolate, Chocolate increases towards the end. Medium bodied and quite nice.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at the water house in Manchester (spoons). Dark colour with nice pale reddish head. Very malty and quite bitter. Strong chocolate throughout. Tastes a bit burnt.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask conditioned at Fleetwood Beer Fest ’12. Black with tan head. Particularly bitter stout, coffee husk, black chocolate with a light fruitiness for a hint of balance. Very decent.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask @ Euston Tap, 190 Euston Road, London, Greater London, England NW1 2EF.
Clear dark brown colour with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, light beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, dark chocolate, sweet chocolate, moderate coffee. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, chocolate, dark roasted. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20111230]
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at National Winter ales festival 20/1/12
Medium-brown with fluffy tan head. It’s a lovely chocolate stout, dark chocolate on the nose and chocolate, roast barley and a slight sourness work well together.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask Conditioned air pressure Euston Tap London. A black beer with a little tan coloured head. This is coffee dominated as supposed to chocolate, both in the aroma and mouth. Bitter roast and chocolate makes a sneaky appearance late on. It has good length and is tasty but there is a misnomer thing going on.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
On cask at Euston Tap. Very dark brown colour thin collar of bubbles. Choccy aroma. Its finedecent choc
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