Carlota
Thornbridge Brewery in Bakewell, Derbyshire, England 🏴
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured Special|
Score
7.08
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Carlota is a smooth, spicy stout inspired by the magical cuisine of Mexico and created by Cervecera Macaria. This is a complex beer which uses 7 different malts, 4 different chilli types, cocoa husks, cacao nibs, cinnamon sticks, and vanilla! Fermented using a Mexican lager strain of yeast, during the maturation phase we add a prodigious amount of ancho, pasilla and mulato chillies as well as smoky chipotles. The resulting beer is a rich celebration of warming spice, raisiny sweetness and chocolate goodness.
Hops - Cascade, Goldings
Malts - Low Colour Maris Otter, Wheat, Crystal, Munich, Brown, Chocolate
Hops - Cascade, Goldings
Malts - Low Colour Maris Otter, Wheat, Crystal, Munich, Brown, Chocolate
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6/10
Tried
on 15 Jul 2022
at 16:59
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the Guildford Arms. Pours clear dark brown with a thin bubbly beige head. Aromas of roasted nuts and dusty cocoa. Taste has a tickle of heat, some liquorice, more cocoa and light spice. It's a little thin, but not bad.
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Jun 2022
at 16:26
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
# 2974; 5/2022. Very good and complex chilli stout. Pint, draught, multitap pub, Lincoln (Lincolnshire, England).
Tried
from Draft
on 31 May 2022
at 09:07
6.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at the Colmore, Birmingham. Poured almost black in colour with an everlasting frothy tan head. The aroma is roasty malt. The flavour is moderate to light liqourice bitter, with a light, slightly watery, earthy, mineral, big chilli spice palate. Medium to light bodied with soft carbonation. Looks great but a real mess of a beer. A light watery stout with tons of added chillis. Thornbridge can do better than this.
Tried
from Cask
at
The Colmore
on 24 May 2022
at 21:53
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Rocky light brown head left a froth on a near black body. Caramel, malt & nutty aroma. Medium bodied, smooth & soft with a thinner clean back. Chocolate, nutty, malts & cocoa tastes with a bitter hoppy chilli hit on the finish. Only canned 2 weeks ago so quite ripe. Deep Heat.
Tried
from Can
on 14 May 2022
at 21:33
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask. Black with thin creamy head. Creamy, silky texture. Full on roasted malts with a gentle warmth of chilli.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 May 2022
at 20:43
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Brewers Cooperative. Pours black with a tan head. Smoke, chocolate, capsicum bitterness, vanilla, chipotle, some chilli heat to finish. This is how a chilli beer should be done. Touch of chilli peppering the tongue but all those other notes allowed to dominate the flavour. Delightful.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 May 2017
at 00:24
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
On tap at Coach and Horses, Dronfield - Dark brown near black body, small tan head. Nose is dark chocolate, spicy chili masking everything. Taste not as spicy as hoped, smoky malts and coffee rinds to the fore. Bit flat. Not a massive fan, and I’d looked forward to this one.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 May 2017
at 11:35
7/10
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Apr 2017
at 14:20
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draught @ Christian Firtal, Odense. Thornbridge tap takeover. Pours Black with a creamy beige head. Roast, good coffee and a whiff og ash. Smooth and full bodied with a bit of warmth - perhaps a snap of chili. Well brewed!
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Mar 2017
at 08:09