Hunter's Brewery Black Jack

Black Jack

 

Hunter's Brewery in Ipplepen, Devon, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Stout Regular
Score
6.23
ABV: 6.0% IBU: - Ticks: 28
A surprisingly light stout with the aroma of coffee and malt it also has rich liquorish flavours. Good match with most meat dishes but almost a meal in itself!
 

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6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Gravicask at Tuckers Malting Beer Festival. Deep dark brown body, spotty lacing from a dissipating beige head. Chocolate nose, smooth and inviting. Sweet flavours of honey, chocolate and earth malts followed by a backdrop of dark fruits. Fine bodied. A nice one. (Newton Abbot 27.04.2017).

Tried from Cask on 15 May 2017 at 13:45


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle from brewer’s own stand at Mapledurham Food Festival. Amber-brown with a thin off-white head. Toffee, roasty malt, a touch of chocolate and a whisper of blackberry. Doesn’t taste its strength and doesn’t taste like a stout either - I’d have guessed it was a 4.7% ESB. Pleasant enough though, but pretty forgettable.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Apr 2017 at 17:18


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle Dan brought back from Devon, shared at his. Poured dark brown with a moderate beige head. Aroma of chocolate, light coffee and roasted malt. Light to medium sweetness, moderate roasted bitterness. Toward being medium bodied, oily texture, below average carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Jan 2017 at 16:28


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Disparate head over hazy light-brown beer (stout???). Bottom solid yeast. Woody nose, chocolate malt, pencil(wood). Chocolate, sweetish, lightly coloured malts. Acidity backthroat (light). Quite well-bodied for its ABV. Feels better carbonated than it looks. I agree - "Brown Jack" doesn’t sound very comestible. But this Jack ain’t black! Txs to Stef!

Tried on 01 Aug 2016 at 03:05


5.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle from Crocombe’s, Lynmouth. Mid-brown with no head. Described as a ’light stout’ it is in colour, and surprisingly so in its taste given its strength, we which is not overly obvious. There’s a sweetness amongst its roasted malts in its nose, and this is more dominant in its taste.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Jul 2016 at 04:27


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle split in hotel room, Ibis Chesterfield, with Rich and John 20/05/16. Murky chestnut brown topped with a tan swirl. Nose is earthy fruit rinds, biscuit, toffee. Taste comprises light roast, faint cocoa, toffee, light hop. Medium bodied, moderate carbonation, semi drying close. Mediocre stout.

Tried from Bottle on 27 May 2016 at 03:56


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle shared in hotel Ibis not sure where from; dark opaque brown pour with a thin bubbly white head, dark roast aroma with a hint of milk chocolate, taste has some dark roast, chocolate, dark fruit, light carbs.

Tried from Bottle on 22 May 2016 at 14:46


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

Bottle conditioned 500ml: BBD 1st May 14, poured into an Abbot Ale glass tankard on 29th Nov 13. Clear ruby red body and thin looking for a regular Stout: it’s name should be Ruby Stout maybe. The head was thin to begin with and became a minute wisp and collar within seconds, that’s bad in my eyes, which is a real shame because the body colour is lovely. Aroma wise it gave off milk chocolate esters: like a Cadbury’s Creamy Egg. The taste wasn’t too far away from that either. It was very Milk Stout, but with semi-skimmed milk, smooth but not uber-smooth: I really took to it. Different and lovely in every way apart from the none-head, what a pity.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Nov 2013 at 12:02


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

Cask at GBBF 2012 - London. Pours clear brown with a fine, white cream head. Light toasty malt nose, some burnt leaves. Light to medium sweet flavor with toasty malt character, dirty-leafy bitterness. Light to medium bodied with fine carbonation. Faint dryness to finish, moderate leafy and earthy bitterness, toasty malts. Basic but nice.

Tried from Cask on 01 Jul 2013 at 03:54


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask gravity at White Cliffs BF 2013. very dark brown thin beige head. A malty beer. Not sure its a stout more a strong dark ale. Yes fine and an unusual style a dark ale

Tried from Cask on 02 Feb 2013 at 03:07