Dark
Exmoor Ales in Wiveliscombe, Somerset, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.55
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A lighter, younger brother to our legendary Beast. This powerful yet balanced and very drinkable dark beer. Spicy aroma, malty biscuit flavour and a fruity long dry after taste.
Hops: Bramling Cross, Fuggles, Goldings and WGV
Hops: Bramling Cross, Fuggles, Goldings and WGV
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7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Deep dark brown, near black, with a ruby tinge, a creamy / frothy tan head and roasted malt and a touch of dark fruit on the nose. Somewhat creamy, roasted malt, dark fruit and coffee bitterness nicely combined, finishes dry and bitter.
Tried
from Cask
at
Montgomery's Tower
on 13 Oct 2025
at 16:00
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at Paramount, Manchester (but have drunk it previously). Pours very dark reddish-brown with minimal foamy tan head. There’s roasted malts and hints of spice in the aroma. In the mouth it is sweet and creamy but also some underlying bitterness and a rather watery texture. Flavour has roasted malts and coffee plus hints of dark fruits and chocolate. Some bitterness in a fruity finish. Reasonable enough but I wouldn’t call it a bitter. My records say Mild but not’s not quite right either. Maybe an Old Ale ?
Tried
from Cask
at
Paramount
on 08 Oct 2025
at 13:45
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 6
Half pint on cask at the Bankers Draft.
Medium creamy beige head. Clear dark amber pour. Light chocolate
Medium creamy beige head. Clear dark amber pour. Light chocolate
Tried
from Cask
at
Banker’s Draft (JDW)
on 07 Oct 2025
at 15:59
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask up the White Lady. Second of the fest is it? Pours black with a thin beige head. Aromas of light toffee and coffee. Taste is more of the same. Thin finish.
Tried
on 04 Oct 2025
at 16:31
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Barrel Vaults, St Pancras, 03/10/2025.
Deep mahogany brown topped with a beige head.
Nose is bitter fruit rinds, toffee, herb, dark malts.
Taste comprises biscuit, grains, brown bread, fruit loaf, toffee.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying close.
Not bad.
Deep mahogany brown topped with a beige head.
Nose is bitter fruit rinds, toffee, herb, dark malts.
Taste comprises biscuit, grains, brown bread, fruit loaf, toffee.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying close.
Not bad.
Tried
on 02 Oct 2025
at 23:00
Historic check-in
Tried
on 29 Nov 2022
at 15:21
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Two cask pints, hand-pulled into brewery badged glass tankards in The Mitre, Witheridge, Devon on 10th Nov 2017. It's dark and it's malty, it's semi-sweet and slightly spicy. It's got some red fruit action going on and I liked it.
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Nov 2017
at 13:27
5/10
Tried
on 21 Nov 2015
at 13:48
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask during a Wetherspoon Beer Festival in 2010. No notes as pre-Ratebeer for me but rating transferred from the Facebook Beerseek app.
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Feb 2015
at 12:46
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
From cask at Standing Order. Pours pitch black with a small tan head. Aroma is dark roasted malt. Breadish and slight liqourice. Dark roasted malty and breadish dry malty. Mild acidic. Bitter and roasted.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Nov 2010
at 04:11