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

Bottle from Beerdome. Aroma is roasted malt with bitter dark chocolate, burnt malt, caramel, touch of vanilla, hint of nuts. Flavour is rather sweet but fairly bitter as well. Body is medium to full. A bit heavy-handed, burnt malt dominates, not easy to drink. I'd hoped for more nuts as well.

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

Bottle.pitch black colour with small beige head.Aroma of almond and roasted malt mild sweet with chocolate and vanilla nots mild and light finish.

Taster. Something's wrong... Down the drain.

Ой хорошо! Спасибо этому месту! Как дома!

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

Bottle 330ml. @ home.

[ As Beer Bastards / Solo New Garash Cake ].
ABV: 9.0%. Clear dark black brown colour with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, roasted, dark malt, walnut, light to moderate cake, light chocolate, light wood. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light bitter with a long duration, chocolate, walnut - wood, cake, dark malt. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20200720]
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Attempt at pastry stout with chocolate, walnut and (quite originally) pistachio nuts by a Bulgarian craft brewery collaborating with Solo from Heraklion on Crete, Greece. Medium thick, immediately opening, pale yellowish beige, quickly thinning ring for a head, black robe with very thin burgundy edge. Aroma of bitter chocolate, spiced barbeque sausages (weirdly), walnut oil and green walnuts, beef stock cubes, charcoal, brown rum, ground pistachio nuts indeed, toffee, cigar ashes, coffee grounds. Sweetish onset with notes of candied fig and blackberry jam but also some beef stock cube-like umami, medium carbonation, full and thickly oily body. Bitter-chocolatey and toasted-walnutty middle, layers of malt bitterness with a sweet layer in the middle, so to speak, but ending with very pronounced roasted bitterness (roasted chicory) even turning a bit 'ashy' in the end, while heated by considerable whisky-like alcohol that could (and should) be better hidden. Meanwhile the pistachio nuts - much more than the other ingredients, which 'naturally' fit in better in this type of beers, of course - make their presence clear in producing a very specific kind of spiciness that seems a bit out of place here; ends rather astringent due to alcohol and roastedness, with a solid punch of hop bitterness underneath. Interesting concept, but not too well executed I'm afraid; lacks balance and depth, and the pistachios especially should be used differently, I think. Not my cup of tea - and, in complete lack of 'dessert' aromas and sheer sweetness, clearly not a true pastry stout in the literal sense of the word.