Temptation
Durham Brewery in Bowburn, Durham, England 🏴
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.54
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Crystal malt, amber malt, black malt and roast barley in generous quantities generate a deep black colour and flavours to match. Roast bitterness, coffee and liquorice notes combine in a velvety rich malt texture. A full and sweetish body is balanced by traditional Goldings hops.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
500ml bottle, aged a year or two. Pours very dark brown with a big tan head, settling and lasting the duration. Dark fruits, berries, and roast malts on the nose. Taste has mainly dark fruits and berries, liquorice, roast malts, bitter finish. Medium-full bodied, soft carbonation. Great impy stout, I'd prefer mine with more roast than fruit/liquorice but this is solid nonetheless.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jul 2018
at 03:04
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle in Austria at a festival. Black pour with practically no foam. Nose: wheat makes this Russian Stout aroma round, nuts brandy, alcohol. Mouth: some dried fruit, feels like a quadrupel in the beginning. Ends frizzy with a decent alcohol warming note.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jun 2018
at 16:37
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
(Draught at Monterey Bar, Berlin, 26 Aug 2017) Black colour with frothy, beige head. Malty, roasted nose with notes of coffee, liquorice, dark chocolate, soy sauce and some ashes. Malty, roasted taste with chocolate, coffee, espresso, liquorice, caramel and a slightly vinous finish with a balanced roasty bitterness. Full body, almost oily mouthfeel, with a certain sweetness. Tasty, warming and quite well balanced for its strength. Very nice.
Tried
on 21 Nov 2017
at 14:48
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Appearance: Basically black, some dark tan head.
Aroma: Dark malt, dark chocolate and coffee.
Taste: Dark malt, coffee, roasted. Some chocolate. Slight alcohol. Smooth.
Bought: Drinks of the World (Online), 500 ml, CHF 8.50
Info: 8/4-2017, BB: 30/6-2020
Aroma: Dark malt, dark chocolate and coffee.
Taste: Dark malt, coffee, roasted. Some chocolate. Slight alcohol. Smooth.
Bought: Drinks of the World (Online), 500 ml, CHF 8.50
Info: 8/4-2017, BB: 30/6-2020
Tried
on 11 Apr 2017
at 02:46
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle shared at the CBC Islington for the jk tasting. Many thanks to Daniel . A dark black, dark brown coloured pour with a halo of dark tan head. Aroma is mineral, tangy green apple, sour, nutty. Palate is tangy, frothy, carbonation, semi sweet, . Flavour is composed of nutty, brown sugars, liquorice, blackened malts. Ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2016
at 06:04
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Old rating transferred to Ratebeer. Very dark colour, with chocolate and coffee in the aroma. Bitter taste.
Tried
on 05 Jul 2016
at 06:32
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
A black beer, a head is very big and beige. Aroma has liquirice, salt liquirice and some chocolate. Taste is powerful, great salt liquirice, some dark fruitness and roastiness. Full bodied, not sticky, balanced carbonation. Not typical IS, whick have also other nuancees than the nomal coffee and roastiness. Strong salt liquirice and lots of flavours. Very tasteful.
Tried
on 27 Dec 2015
at 07:33
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Flaske (thanks, Steve!), hjemme etter utskriving fra SUS des-15: brunsvart med fint beige skum som varer. Aroma og smak av lakris, mørke bær (bjørnebær, solbær og moreller) og røstet malt. Saftig, kompleks, fyldig og passe tørr, slik at det er lett å strekke hånden ut etter en ny slurk. Lett bitter avslutning med litt kvalitetskaffe og et snev av aske. En elegant, smaksrik, balansert og nydelig imp.stout, understated ville kanskje en engelskmann sagt.
Tried
on 19 Dec 2015
at 14:35
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 9
Black colour. Smell of raisins, red wine. Aroma of coffee, cocoa, oak, cognac, faint of tar. Bitter and sweet. Flat carbon. Velvety palate. Very surprising in a positive way.
Tried
on 17 Oct 2015
at 15:08
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
At a tasting, thanks Roei, small creamy head, opaque vert dark brown color, lots of aromatic coffee, with wood, shrubs, cinamon and dark bread in the back, roasted coffee flavor, some roasted malt and dark fruits, mellow sourness. Very nice to sip slowly, should continue to improve.
Tried
on 01 Sep 2015
at 04:11