2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
500ml bottle. Pours black with a large head. Aroma is milk chocolate. Taste starts with a little milk chocolate. Coffee and liquorice finish. Bit overly carbonated.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
500ml bottle. Very dark, slightly ruddy brown body with a medium, lasting though relatively loose light tan head. Chocolate, coffee and a bit of pasteurised dark malt on the nose. Burnt and roasty malt flavour profile with coffee, dark fruits and a chocolate bittersweetness. Lingering ashy bitterness, medium body and carbonation. Pretty bloody tasty in all.
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
black with a good brown head, roast malt aroma and taste easier to drink than stout . Made for Sainsbury’s supermarket by Shepard Neame and it is a very good beer.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Clear bottle. Slight chocolate flavour with a medium body. Pleasant but nothing that stands out. Did Porters really taste like this?
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
(pasteruised bottle) big ass fluffy beige above burnt brown,; light skunky nose because they insist on clear glass..some broken roastiness that screams through the skunkiness . Tastes good regardless. A porter with roasted chocolate bitterness ...and ashy rich body .
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from Fosse. Very black beer (in the dark) with a lacing beige head. Good burnt aroma; leaf matter, broccoli florets and Blackjacks rolled in burnt toast scrapings. Bittersweet and burnt like pistachios, coal dust, cabbage on burnt toast. Strangebury’s have got a cheeky beer up their sleeve with this one.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled, 500ml from Sainsburys, Banbury. Black with tan head. Chocolate, fruity, licorice flavours on a slightly sweet body. Some carbonation, thinnish but nicely drinkable.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled. A black beer with a whitish head and lacing. The aroma has coffee and roasted malts. More of the same in the mouth with added chocolate. A touch of paper to spoil. Reasonable but does need a more robust body.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Near black, with a hint of red when held up to the light and billowy, momentary tan head. Aroma of strong black coffee, bitter chocolate and a hint of dark fruit. Flavours of liquorice, more chocolate and charred malts, leading to a very dry, burnt finish. Enjoyable.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
500ml bottle from Sainsbury’s, Kidlington, Oxon, consumed 15.10.10 Pours dark conker brown with some red highlights and a large frothy beige head. Quite a dry stout though there is some underlying sweetness (just) Plenty of big roasty bitterness, in fact this bitterness really sticks around for a while. If I had a criticism it is that it’s a little thin for the strength, in fact its quite challenging as well, though I rather like it. A6 A5 T7 P3 Ov13 3.4
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