Santa's Beard
Brains in Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales 🏴
Stout - Milk / Sweet Winter Out of Production|
Score
6.87
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Santa’s Beard blends five malts - Pale ale, Munich, Crystal, Brown and Chocolate malts - with roasted barley to create a dark beer with a rich depth of malty wonderment. With flavours of caramel, burnt toffee, and roast coffee balanced by a sweetness from lactose sugars, this is a luxuriously sumptuous sweet stout, perfect for Christmas. A great accompaniment to aged cheese or rich chocolate puddings.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
500ml Bottle: poured into an Abbot Ale pint glass tankard @ home on 8th Dec 13. Would Santa drink a Sweet Milk Stout or a Baltic Porter? Well Brain’s obviously think he’d like a Stout rather than a Porter. Pours a deep, deep mahogany with a full head that hung around. Chocolate and more chocolate notes in both the aroma and taste: this is a ’Milk Chocolate Stout’. Impressed with the smoothness of texture and taste, this is a lovely Sweet Stout and a great surprise at that, didn’t think Brain’s could/would brew such a beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Dec 2013
at 12:31
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle from Threshers, Albany Road, Cardiff. Has a potent aroma with strong dark tastes merging black coffee, liquorice, figs whilst remaining fairly sweet with a spicy bitterness. Quite a lot going on, not bad at all.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Dec 2013
at 00:40