7.1

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

Cask at the Tiny Tavern, Lincoln. Black colour with a tan head. Aroma and taste are roasted malty, slight coffee and bitter. Medium body.

7.4

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

Cask gravity at the Watford beer festival 2024. A dark black mahogany brown coloured pour with a lasting loose speckled khaki head. Aroma is earrhy pine mellow woody roast, Bark, farmyard roast. Flavour is composed of semi sweet nutty, woody roast, dry Douglas fur, pine tips, Light char. Palate is semi sweet, rounded, good cask condition. Solid hoppy stout.

6.9

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

Cask at CBC, Covent Garden on 23rd June 2024. Deep sepia with shallow, pale tan foam and scant lacing. Roasty aroma. Rich coffee and bitter chocolate in-mouth, and a lasting roasty malt finish. Medium bodied with a smooth mouthfeel.

7.6

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

[Cask at the Back of Beyond (JDW), Reading] Phoenix and Apollo hops according to the pump clip - not sure if they rotate the hops in this. A glossy peaty brown coloured pour with a thin caramel coloured head; aroma of roasted grains and coffee; lactic body with an immediate bitterness from both the dark roast and the hops; then some berry fruit and chocolate in the tail, and a lasting bitterness to finish. A nice stout.

07/03/2015. BOOT INN, 4 Market Place, ST. ALBANS, Hertfordshire, England

6.4

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

Cask @ Gallows Bird Real Ale Festival XX, Espoo. Pours pitch black with a smooth head. Aroma of roasty malts, ash and cold coffee. Taste is ashy, slightly watery and slightly roasty with some cold coffee and earthiness. Finish is burnt, ashy and watery with hints of cold coffee and roastiness. A bit too ashy.

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask @ Gallows real ale festival. Pours dark mahogany color with a thin white head. Caramel, toast, fudge, toffee like aroma. Inviting. Roasted malty flavor, caramel, sweetness, some chocolate. Tasty. High drinkability.

6.5

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

(Cask at Gallows Bird Real Ale Festival 2017) The beer poured nearly black. Its head was small and lightly brown. Aroma had coffee, sweetness and burnt malts. Palate was medium bodied with low carbonation. Flavours were burnt malts, sweetness, coffee and bitterness. Aftertaste was sweet, burnt and  bitter. A rather nice stout with some weird notes.

6.9

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

Cask (Alehouse, Reading) - Black in colour. Coffee, roasted malt and a hint of vanilla in the aroma. Smooth and roasted taste with chocolate and coffee detected.

7

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

Cask gravity at the St Albans BEER festival 2016. An oily dark mahogany brown coloured, reddy brown coloured pour with doing tan head. Aroma is big woody scotch whisky, oak and vanilla, peat, oak. Flavour is composed of woody vanilla, oak and red berries, peaty whisky. Palate is semi sweet, sugary, rounded, medium cask condition. Little oily. Lingering oak and vanilla and chocolate.