2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20After-hours promotion party at The Penguin,13/05/12. Bottle in dimpled half pint glass, dancing. Black with ruby glints and a fine tan collar. Weak grilled veg aroma. Cardboard and grilled veg scattered with iron filings taste. Beautiful, sweet refuse. WE ARE GOING UP, WE ARE GOING UP!!!!!
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours brown with a beige head. Aroma is roasted malt, coffee and liquorish. Flavour is roasted malt, coffee, liquorish and light chocolate.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottled ; Devon ; UK ; Malt,roasted,chocolate and nutty aroma ; Black color with smaller head ; Sweeter taste with lighter bitter finish ; Medium body ; Pretty good.
3.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
500ml bottle in Dublin. Black colour with a small head. Aroma of coffee. Strong taste of coffee. Medium body. Nice stout but maybe a bit strong for some people.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
A dark, black-brown coloured beer with a frothy but thick beige head. A light, roasted malt aroma, with a background of fruity hops. Fizzy, medium mouthfeel. The taste follows on from the aroma, a mildly sweet, roasted malt flavour, with hints of chocolate and dark caramel, is soon taken over by a bitter, pithy citrus fruit, hop flavour, that lasts through to a thin, weak finish.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle. Almost black beer with small beige head. Aroma of chocolate. Taste is bitter and dry roasted hops and chocolate. Light bodied for a stout. Not bad for 99p.
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
50 cl bottle.
Originally rated on 20110416.
Pours dark red color with a small head. Aroma of dark fruits, some caramel malts and mild chocolate. Flavor of dry chocolate, mild roasted malts and dark fruits. Lots of off-flavors and very unbalanced, probably contaminated.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle @ Odense Smagning, 1st Gathering Janaur 2013. 4%. Pours dark brown nearly black with a small beige foam.Chocolate, vague roast and caramel. Medium bodied. A bit thin . .
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
RB Odense January tasting. Near black with a lasting tan head. Malty aroma with roasted notes of licorice and chocolate. Sweetish roasted and mild fruity flavour
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
4th August 2012
ChrisOs Marvellous Pre GBBF Mega Tasting. Clear darm amber - red beer. Light pale tan head. Light dry palate. Mild lacto and tangy malt. Light dry finish. A bit too light (double stout??) but okay.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle at Chriso’s Pre-GBBF Shindig, 2012, London. Pours clear, red-brown with a creamy, white foam head. Moderate lactic chocolate nose, cocoa. Light sweet flavor with dark toast, faint rubber, dusty cocoa. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Dry finish with more dusty cocoa, some minerals, coal, some dry soil. Not bad.
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