Dark Velvet
Spitting Feathers in Chester, Cheshire, England 🏴
Mild - Dark Regular|
Score
6.58
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A tasty, dark, mild ale. An easy drinking beer full of smooth, roasted and nutty flavours.
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6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Hand-pulled half-pint at the Crown Inn, Oakengates on 26th May 2024. Dark brown body, beige topping. Slightly nutty in nature with a solid malty base, thought it might be a bit smoother with 'velvet' in the name.
Tried
on 26 May 2024
at 23:21
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at Brewery Tap, Chester. Pours a dark reddish-brown with a medium sized off-white head and good lacing. There’s malts and smoke in the aroma, but it’s all a bit weak. In the mouth it is sweet and fruity with a creamy texture and malts and cherries to the fore. Later on therese are joined by cola and hints of humbugs and toffee. Finish is fruity and slightly dry. Not a world beater, but definitely decent.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 May 2024
at 23:03
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Tried at the Deepings Beer Festival 2018. Dark almost black colour with a tan head. Aroma malty chocolate. Taste light sweet to slight bitter. Medium body.
Tried
on 21 Jul 2018
at 09:17
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Cask at tap house... Dark brown... Thin tan lacing... Soft sweet toffee fruit.. Light caramel toffee fruit.. Soft dusty toffee malts
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Jul 2017
at 12:01
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Handpull cask at the Swan and Rushes, Leicester. Red-brown, translucent. Malt, oats and chocolate in the simple, honest aroma. Sweet/spicy taste, with a slightly sourish caramel biscuit finish. Weak palette. Pretty good but not a game-changer. But then again it was never meant to be.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 May 2015
at 14:47
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at The Blisland Inn. Pours brown with a creamy light tan head. Aroma of dark malt and something roasty which only suggests coffee to me. That’s probably not it, but that’s how my brain interprets it. A bit light in body, and the flavor has that unusual "coffee". There’s dark malt, but the roasty flavor is distinctive.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 May 2011
at 13:02
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Cask@the Spitting Feathers Brewery Tap. Clear dark brown looks with a thin tan head. Rather strange nose that somehow reminded me of pencil sharperner shavings. Lacking in body. Some roasted character in the flavour, but everything seemed just a bit wide of the mark here. Disappointing.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 May 2011
at 12:53