20/04/2012. TUCKERS MALTINGS BEER FESTIVAL, Teign Road, NEWTON ABBOT, Devon, England

6.9

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

Cask at the Hanging Bat. Pours deep brown, nose is pine, taste is roasted, fruity.

7.9

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

Bottle from Jug and Bottle, Bubwith. Dark ruby red. Beige, tight, creamy head. Looks good. Aroma is licorice with some coffee. The hops lend a decidedly minty element. Dark red fruit on top. Juicy, mouthwatering palate. Bitter, not overly dry finish. Liked it.

6.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Keg at the Euston Tap, London on 15 June. Dark beer with an off-white head. Hop aroma, which isn’t overpoweringly strong. Nice bitter taste with coffee and dark chocolate bitterness along. Palate loses some of the intensity, but is quite rounded.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Keg at the euston tap. Hazy caramel black very little cream head little lace. Aroma is sweet citrus hop very soft roast and a touch of mineral. Flavour is some sweet caramel lemon and peach. Very soft roast in the tail. Chalky palete. Assertive bitterness, but pretty low. Decent beer. Happily drink a few of these.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Cask at Hanging Bat, Edinburgh. It pours darkest ruby with a medium light tan head. The nose is roasted malt, earth, liquorice, peppery and a touch of farmyard. The taste is roasted malt, coffee, pine, liquorice, varnish, bitter cocoa and scortched earth with a dry finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Pretty tasty.

6.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Cask at the York Tap.Good blackness, thin white head, good lacing. Nose is hops, taste is more hops, but well balanced. Slightly sweet finish.

5.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

28th April 2012: half pint, cask. Dark body, black as black can be in fact: good full cream coloured head which produced some strong, thick lacing. The nose was a mix of coffee and semi-citrusy hops: neither really strong, but just about findable. The taste was a similar mix with the coffee coming out the strongest of the flavours with hints of smoke pushing the hop content out somewhat, although there is always a hop bitterness within the black coffee feel of the beer.

7.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8

Bottle at Jens ... deep brown ... big foam tan head ... big soapy pine hop nose ... over fizzy :-( ... deep chcolate roast ... big soapy pine ... big juicy hop ... zezty ... light long bitter linger ... nice