Tartarus Beers Saint Nick 2025

Saint Nick 2025

 

Tartarus Beers in Horsforth, West Yorkshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Stout - Pastry / Flavoured Winter
Score
7.14
ABV: 6.0% IBU: - Ticks: 8
A return of our festive session stout, this years version is Praline! We have kept the same base recipe, which uses 8 different malts and lactose and boiled for 3 hours to produce a thick bodied stout with flavours of coffee, chocolate and roasted nuts. Additional flavours of chocolate and praline give additional sweetness.
 

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7.5

Can from Trembling Madness online.deep chocolate to almost black colour with a tan head. Aroma and taste are chocolate, coffee and nutty, some roasted bitterness. Rich boys.

Tried from Can on 19 Feb 2026 at 19:20


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

(Cask at Southampton Arms, Gospel Oak, London, 20 Nov 2025) Black colour with foamy, beige head. Malty, roasted nose with notes of chocolate, vanilla, sweet black coffee and caramel. Malty, roasted, sweetish taste with dark chocolate, sweet espresso, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, caramel and a mild cacao bitterness. Medium body, with a certain sweetness. Rich, tasty and chocolatey. A bit sweet, but quite well balanced. Very nice.

Tried from Cask at Southampton Arms on 17 Feb 2026 at 21:49


7

Tried from Can on 29 Dec 2025 at 14:55


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at The Star & Garter, Bromley. Nose is liquorice toffee, dark chocolate, caramel, raisin, cocoa. Taste is cookie dough, chocolate, caramel, toffee. Quite nutty. Malty sweet with a lightly bitter edge.

Tried from Draft at Star & Garter on 20 Dec 2025 at 14:01


6.9
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cask at Kings Head, Bristol. Pours black with tan foam. Chocolate, coffee, nuts, praline. lactose. Big pastry vibes, plenty sweet. Mildly synthetic but just about OK. Medium+ body with soft carbonation. Not really my thing but nicely done

Tried from Cask at Kings Head on 15 Dec 2025 at 21:13


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Tried from Cask at Boot Micropub on 13 Dec 2025 at 18:14


7
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Tried from Can on 07 Dec 2025 at 21:53


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Cask at the Southampton Arms, London on 20th November 2025. Almost impenetrably black with brown foam and spot lacing. Rich and intense roastiness in aroma with notes of aniseed. Dark chocolate, coffee and aniseed in-mouth, and a resounding finish of roast malts, spices and bitter chocolate. Velvet smooth mouthfeel and plenty of body.

Tried from Cask at Southampton Arms on 20 Nov 2025 at 18:43

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