Cairngorm Brewery Black Gold

Black Gold
(has 2 batches)

 

Cairngorm Brewery in Aviemore, Highland, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  Stout - Milk / Sweet Regular
Score
6.90
ABV: 4.4% IBU: 45 Ticks (all batches): 136
A Scottish stout with a wonderful rich dark colour. A smooth full bodied beer with subtle bitterness giving way to late sweetness and underlying roast barley hints.

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6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
50cl bottle from Marks & Spencer, Camberley. An opaque peaty brown pour with a large tan head; caramel aroma; quite lively with a smooth creamy texture that coats the mouth, dry with a taste of well roasted barley and some milky oats; then a nutty caramel finish. A solid and satisfying milky stout.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Jul 2016 at 06:44

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Pours black with a small frothy tan head. Aroma is roasted malt, chocolate, and black coffee. A sweet malty taste, lots of chocolate, some licorice, and a roasted coffee bitter finish. Nice one.
Tried on 27 Apr 2016 at 14:36

7.6/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
500 ml bottle, from Matkroken Stokka. BB date 28. April 2014. ABV is 4.4%. Black colour, moderate but lasting tan head. Sweetish malty and lightly roasty aroma, more malts and caramel than coffee, also notes of chocolate and vanilla. Smooth flavour, delightful lightly roasted quality malts, some sweetness but not too much, notes of chocolate, toast and mild coffee, moderate hops. Definitely a beer I’d buy again.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Feb 2016 at 10:44

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Cask at the Highlander Inn, Craigellachie. Pours black with beige head. Roasted malts, bready, note of coffee. Sweet with bitter finish. Medium bodied.
Tried from Cask at Highlander Inn on 10 Feb 2016 at 14:05

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
500ml bottle. Impenetrable black with a lively off white head that fizzed away. Roasted malt and coffee aroma. Taste is similar with a hint of liquorice. Bit thin, perhaps, and taste/aroma could both be stronger, but still nice
Tried from Bottle on 23 Jan 2016 at 10:37

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 7
Black colour with no head. Aroma has some smokiness and dark malts. Fairly bittersweet
Tried on 21 Jan 2016 at 16:00

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Flasche 0,5l: Schwarzbraun mit kräftiger Trübung und festem feinporigem Schaum; leicht würzige Nase mit dunklem Malz, etwas Rauch und Speck; angenehm süßer und süffiger Körper mit dunklem Malz, Röstaromen, Nüssen und dunkler Schokolade
Tried on 20 Nov 2015 at 01:28

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Black colour, white head. Aroma of caramel, bread, sweet note, roasted malts. Sweet flavour, light smoke, caramel and butter. Finish butter, caramel, fudge and chocolate.
(from draught @ GBBF ’14, London, day 2)
Tried on 09 Nov 2015 at 04:06

7/10
Tried on 18 Sep 2015 at 21:33

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
500ml bottle. Quasi black colour with average, thick, frothy to creamy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, beige to tan head. Roasty dark malty, fruity and herbal aroma, notes of dark berries and corresponding shrubs, hints of salty ashes. Taste is roasty dark malty, salty, very subtle sweetness, notes of coffee, roasted barley. Good.
Tried from Bottle on 04 Jun 2015 at 08:19