Skey Lift
Ambition Brewing in Wilton, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - White / Blond Regular|
Score
6.55
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Looking like a pale ale but acting all stout. Boasting the bold coffee, chocolate and vanilla flavours you'd expect from a traditional sweet stout.
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6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at St Albans Beer & Cider Festival, St Albans, Herts. A golden/amber coloured pour with a medium white bubbly head on top. Sweetish, coffee, chocolate and vanilla taste/aroma. Not particularly exciting.
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Sep 2025
at 13:52
6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Gravity cask at the 28th St Albans Beer Festival, 26/09/25.
Golden to light amber topped with an off white cap.
Nose is coffee cake icing, airy malts, breads, grains.
Taste comprises coffee grinds, vanilla essence, toasted sugars, soft malts.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close.
Fun for what it is but overly sweet and a small sample is more than enough.
Golden to light amber topped with an off white cap.
Nose is coffee cake icing, airy malts, breads, grains.
Taste comprises coffee grinds, vanilla essence, toasted sugars, soft malts.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close.
Fun for what it is but overly sweet and a small sample is more than enough.
Tried
on 26 Sep 2025
at 11:38
6/10
at GBBF 2025
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Aug 2025
at 14:44
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at GBBF 25. Clear amber-gold. Frothy bubbly translucent white head. Aroma combines light coffee and syrupy sweetness. Flavourwise itnhas a wave of sweet with some coffee surfing on the crest. Sugary sweetness lingers. Chewy malts. Light-medium bodied. Slick and sticky. Soft carbonation. Long dry astringent finish. Nice enough if overly sugary sweet.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Aug 2025
at 09:35
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 7
7/8/2025. Cask at GBBF 2025. Lots of coffee, white chocolate, vanilla pod, slight spiced notes. Quite sweet, mild bitterness. Interesting. But sugary sweet.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Aug 2025
at 15:00