Dry Stout - Summit
The Kernel Brewery in Bermondsey, Greater London, England 🏴
Stout - Dry Regular|
Score
7.59
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4.3-4.8% abv.
A light-bodied stout with bright hop character
Our Dry Stout is the equivalent of Table Beer within our family of darker beers — modest in strength, full in flavour, and endlessly drinkable. It’s not a traditional “dry stout” by style, but rather a stout that happens to be dry: lean, roasty, and bright, without heaviness.
Brewed with a layered malt bill of Maris Otter, Brown, Black, Chocolate, Dark, Crystal, Carafa, and Oats, it carries notes of toasted grain, dark chocolate, and coffee. Prominent kettle-hopping and a touch of dry-hop lift the finish, adding vibrancy and subtle fruit notes that contrast beautifully with the savoury malt base.
A light-bodied stout with bright hop character
Our Dry Stout is the equivalent of Table Beer within our family of darker beers — modest in strength, full in flavour, and endlessly drinkable. It’s not a traditional “dry stout” by style, but rather a stout that happens to be dry: lean, roasty, and bright, without heaviness.
Brewed with a layered malt bill of Maris Otter, Brown, Black, Chocolate, Dark, Crystal, Carafa, and Oats, it carries notes of toasted grain, dark chocolate, and coffee. Prominent kettle-hopping and a touch of dry-hop lift the finish, adding vibrancy and subtle fruit notes that contrast beautifully with the savoury malt base.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bouteille 33cl, bottled 01/07/2025, BB 01/07/2026, lot# 2795.3018.
Brune foncée, col épais crémeux blanc-cassé tenace.
Arôme est sur un excellent malté caramel/pâle, grillé à souhaite tout en ayant pas mal de notes houblonnées en support - frais : herbacé, terreux et touche fine de résine.
Palais sur un excellent caractère toasté - le tout ponctué par un super apport houblonné du single hop Summut. Tout cela verse bcp plus sur une Black IPA que stout. Je note pas mal de résine, terreux, herbacé léger, oetite note boisée avec un appel fruité sur les fruits rouges/noirs: figue/mûres, fruits secs.
Brune foncée, col épais crémeux blanc-cassé tenace.
Arôme est sur un excellent malté caramel/pâle, grillé à souhaite tout en ayant pas mal de notes houblonnées en support - frais : herbacé, terreux et touche fine de résine.
Palais sur un excellent caractère toasté - le tout ponctué par un super apport houblonné du single hop Summut. Tout cela verse bcp plus sur une Black IPA que stout. Je note pas mal de résine, terreux, herbacé léger, oetite note boisée avec un appel fruité sur les fruits rouges/noirs: figue/mûres, fruits secs.
Tried
from Bottle
at
The Kernel Taproom (Spa Road)
on 22 Apr 2026
at 10:22
8.1/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Advent box. Almost black. God tier swede. Good earthy leafy spicy hoppage and dark roast malt with a whiff of ashy coffee. Turkish kind of thing. Dry and bitter with a bare flicker of malt sweetness. Clean and almost puckering on the palate. Dry bitter finish. Delivers the goods.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jan 2026
at 18:24
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at home 16th November 2025. Pours black. Aroma is ash, chocolate and malts. Taste is bitter, ash, cocoa and malts
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Nov 2025
at 21:09
7.5/10
Tried
on 08 Nov 2025
at 16:34
9.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9
Gorgeous pour - couldn’t look any better. Superb balance, nice ashy roast, citrus accents, a little coffee and cocoa, soft earthy bitterness. Smooth, creamy, bittersweet. Outstanding.
Tried
from Bottle
at
The Kernel Taproom (Spa Road)
on 21 Oct 2025
at 19:43
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
Bottle at home picked up from the Kernel tap room. 4.5% . A opaque black brown coloured pour with a lasting magnolia creamy head. Aroma is dry woody roast, nice warming char, singed pine, sap, bark. Nice. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, woody bark, woody pine, tar, Palate is semi sweet, little thin, moderate mellow carbonation. Nice rich hoppy stout.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Oct 2025
at 21:08
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Svart med lys brunt skum. Lukter kaffe og havre. Middels fylde. Smaker kaffe, havre og mørk sjokolade. Kort.
Tried
from Draft
at
Moeder Lambic Fontainas
on 05 Sep 2025
at 13:49
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
330ml bottle. Black, with a big beige head. Aroma of dark chocolate and roast malts. Taste is very chocolatey, roast malts, a touch of citrus with piney finish. Medium bodied. Once again a fantastic low ABV stout from The Kernel. Great stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
from The Fuss Club
on 02 Aug 2025
at 00:02