3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at Cask Pub & Kitchen. It pours deep brown with a small off-white head. The nose is roasted malt, earth, caramel, coffee and faint bubblegum. The taste is roasted malt, toast, earth, wood, caramel and coffee with a dry finish. Medium body and soft carbonation. Decent flavour and good balance.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at CPK, London. Meet the brewer event. It pours dark brown with a ssmall beige head. Aroma is roasted malts and ppiney hops. Taste is bitter and hoppy but a tad bland. Medium mouthfeel with soft carbonatin. Overall, decent.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
cask at the ralph. mahogany with a thin off white. spice hops fruit. biyter. nutty finish. quite dry.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask conditioned at The Wenlock Arms, Hoxton, London. Dark brown with off white head. The roasted malt flavours are definitely there, maybe a little thin, but charred husk notes and chocolate, however; I didn’t get the hops very much, there wasn’t the prominence I was expecting. A touch disappointing.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (handpump) @ NWAF 2012, National Winter Ales Festival, The Venue, Sheridan Suite, Manchester, England.
Clear dark brown color with a average, frothy - fizzy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, chocolate. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, fruity, chocolate. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20120119]
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
12th July 2012
Chelmsford Beer Festival. Clear dark brown beer. Residual pale tan head. Smooth palate, very low carbonation. A little bit of dark malt. Mild mild piney hops. Trace of red berry. Finishes neutral. Inoffensive but seems a bit tired.
2.8 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Deep black in colour, looks like a porter or stout, taste is creamy and reminded me of Baileys, slight hop taste in there too
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Aromas of caramel and biscuit. Dark copper with beige head. Tastes of chocolate and a touch of cherry.
3.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at the Brewery Tap, Leeds. Dark red with a coffee crema and not much aroma. Pine and citrus hop palate, plus notes of coffee and old wine. Quite smooth for a black IPA.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Half pint, hand pulled at a London Wetherspoons pub: Oct 2011.
Advertised as a Black IPA, it looks and tasted like a stout to me, but without any body thickness.
The nose was hopped toffee apple (Cascade hops used), with some roasted malts within the smells also.
The taste a strange mix of bittering citrusy hops and dry roasted malty biscuits.
Couldn’t get into it, just didn’t sit right on my palate. Try it by all means, but expect the flavours to be all over the place.
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