Hawse Buckler
Oakham Ales in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England 🏴
Stout - Foreign / Extra Special|
Score
7.19
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This spicy, rich and unique beer is bursting with chocolate and coffee malt flavours.
We’re famous for our pale and gold coloured beers at Oakham Ales, but we brew some great black beers as well and Hawse Buckler showcases just what our brewers can do in that area. Hawse Buckler (first brewed in 2006) was an excellent Black IPA a long time before the Black IPA category was even invented! Our brewers have been perfecting the recipe ever since.
Colour: Black
Hops: Amarillo, Chinook, Simcoe (all USA)
Malts: Maris Otter, Wheat Malt, Crystal Malt, Chocolate Malt, Roasted Barley
Allergens: Contains Gluten
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
26/1/2024. Cask at The Dove Street Inn, Ipswich. Pours very dark brown with a bubbly/frothy beige head. Aroma is chocolate, roasted malt, dark fruits, toffee, liquorice, ash. Moderate sweetness, quite heavy bitterness, touch of fruity tartness. Moderate body, average carbonation. Bitter drying finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Jan 2024
at 18:47
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pours a dark brown almost black colour with a small creamy tan head. Aroma is roasted, malts and light chocolate with orange and a little spice. A smooth and moderately sweet roasted taste, malts, chocolate and dark fruit with a drying slightly acrid bitterness in the finish when it warms up a bit.
Tried
on 15 Dec 2021
at 18:23
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Black with creamy head. Aroma and flavour have an intense floral spice. Like cloves but more perfumed. Roasted malts, a little coffee too. It's a good beer but not my taste.
Tried
on 22 Sep 2021
at 22:28
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Cask 1/3 pint at the 46th Cambridge Beer Festival, 2019. Black colour, tan head. Nice aroma and flavour of roast malts, chocolate and coffee, also fruity hops. (I sampled only a small number of the beers available at the festival, but this one was \"Beer of the Festival\" for me.)
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Jun 2019
at 18:57
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at Oakham Brewery Tap, Peterborough. Black brown colour, beige foam head leaving lacing and aroma of dark malt, fruity hop. Taste is roasty malt, earthy, dark chocolate, coffee with alittle hop and ashy bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, dry roasty finish. Nicely drinkable.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Nov 2018
at 19:24
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Gravicask at the 23rd St Albans Beer & Cider Festival. Filmy layer, spotty lacing, almost black in the glass. Promising smell of roasted malts, hints of cocoa. Blended flavours of cocoa, coffee and dark dough. Roasted malty bitterness to the ending. Fine depth. Likable. (Shared with Finn, 27.09.2018).
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Oct 2018
at 11:58
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Fra gravicask på St. Albans beer & cider festival 2018. Delt med Rune. Svart. Skum langs glasset. Forsiktig aroma av røstet malt. Smaken sjokolade. Tørr. Litt lakris i avslutninga.
Tried
from Cask
on 27 Sep 2018
at 14:44
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Backlog rating from RBESG 2008, grand tasting: Big pine aroma. Dark brown, creamy brown head. Pine, light roast flavor. Medium body. Grassy, pine finish.
Tried
on 04 Oct 2017
at 05:28
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle shared during Scopey’s 5K tasting - Croydon, London. Sourced from Kris Wines, I think. Pours clear brown with a frothy tan head. Mild toasted bread aroma with touches of chocolate. Light sweet flavor with dry bread, dirt, bittersweet cocoa, earth. Light to medium bodied with fine carbonation. Light dry earth and bitter cocoa on the finish. Just so so overall.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Nov 2015
at 17:01
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Gravity cask at the Birmingham CAMRA Beer Festival 2015. Poured a clear dark brown with a whispy off white head. The aroma is Citra yeast, light toast. The flavour is moderate bitter with a fresh grass hop, citrus fruit palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Oct 2015
at 07:24