Talon Imperial Stout
Elgood's Brewery in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
6.47
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A rich full flavour brewed with roasted with a good hop bitterness. The recipie uses Pale Ale, Amber. Chocolate and Patent malts.
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from a trade with Grumbo, thanks! Aroma is roasted malt, strong liquorice, a little smokiness, burnt caramel, with a touch of dark cocoa and coffee. Flavour is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Body is medium. Bit too heavy on the liquorice and burnt notes for my taste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2025
at 04:48
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Beers of Europe. Pours a dark brown with moderate sized beige head, nice lacing. Aroma of chocolate, liquorice, boozed up fruit cake. Taste of fruit cake soaked in alcohol, chocolate, herbs. It goes slightly beyond a treat into something touching chemical although not so much as to be awful. Medium to full bodied. Its ok but not great for a 6.6% stout.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:05
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Thin beige head on a light brown body - looks thin. Berry, malt & toffee aroma. Medium bodied, smooth with a sharper back. Malt, burnt toffee, roasted, spices & bitter hop tastes. Not really any Imperial Stout but drinkable.
Tried
on 12 May 2023
at 21:50
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Beers of Europe. Appearance - opaque black with a lovely fawn head. Nose - milk chocolate with a slightly farmyard thing going on. Taste - burnt toast and chocolate. Boozy. Burnt again on the finish. Palate - close to medium bodied with a crunchy texture and a long dry crunchy finish. Overall - decent but a bit gnarly.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Nov 2016
at 14:04
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Cask gravity at White Cliffs Beer Festival 2016. Black dark ruby colour lasting beige head. Not much carbonation too much liquorice for me. Yep struggling to drink it. I get these beers at this festival sometimes that are find but make me gag. Just not for me.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Feb 2016
at 12:20
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Keg at Ushers. Pours dark brown with a thin beige head. Aromas of coffee, toffee, dark sugar. Taste is similar. Burnt finish.
Tried
on 27 Jan 2016
at 07:52
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Keg at ushers. Pours black, nose is roasted, chocolate, taste is sweet, creamy chocolate, liquorice. --- Beer merged from original tick of Talon on 28 Jan 2016 at 07:49 - Score: 6. Original review text: Keg at ushers. Pours black, nose is roasted, chocolate, taste is sweet, creamy chocolate, liquorice.
Tried
on 24 Jan 2016
at 08:12
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Keg at ushers... Dark black... Thin tan lacing... Soft dry chocolate roast.. Soft malts.. Soft chocolate roast... Over fizzy.. Dry chocolate roast.. Dry malts
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on 22 Jan 2016
at 11:29
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught @ La Belle Alliance, Milan. Pours black with a rocky tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, coffee, toast, licorice, wet wood. Flavor is malt, coffee, toasted, english licorice, some dried fruit. Medium body, average carboantion. 111215
Tried
on 21 Dec 2015
at 12:38
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Reindeer - Norwich. Pours clear reddish brown with a bubbly tan head. Semi-ripe dark fruits in the nose, some toasty bread. Medium sweet flavor with some boozy accents, scorched earth bitterness, baking cocoa, dried and leathery berries. Medium to full bodied with fine carbonation. Lightly warming in the finish with nips of alcohol, ash, burnt toast, bittersweet chocolate, earth. Given the ABV, thereโs really not a lot to this one.
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from Cask
on 17 Nov 2015
at 09:29