Black Christmas
Weird Beard Brew Co. in London, Greater London, England 🏴
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured Winter|
Score
6.81
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A festive stout with subtle roast character that plays well with fruity and slightly tart notes from the cranberry. Sorachi Ace hops, which there are plenty of in this beer, gives hints of vanilla and coconut.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Black in color with a gigantic head. Taste is dark roasted grains with hints of fruitiness. Aroma has a almost soapy aroma.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2025
at 05:02
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled. Deep brown colour with a small beigeish brown head. Aroma is roasted malts, some slight burnt wood, mild toffee, chocolate, coffee and some slight sweetness as well. Flavour is berries, some roasted malts, toffee, chocolate, coffee and some mild dried fruits as well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 May 2023
at 07:21
05/01/2019. WE BROUGHT BEER, 78 St. John's Hill, LONDON, SW11, England
Tried
on 15 Feb 2023
at 06:11
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Can sample at a tasting at Yoav's place. Cloudy brown, beige head. Roast, malt, some berry, coffee notes, some spiciness, a bit sourish, ashy, bitter, over-carbonated.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Feb 2021
at 17:31
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
330ml can delivered from the Two-Tailed Lion, Leicester and drunk at home on Boxing Day. The colour is strange. Muddy/ruddy brown, opaque with a reddish-tan head. Nice aroma, lots of chocolate the promised cranberry. This is going to taste good... although it really doesn't. There's cranberry and more chocolate in the initial taste, but this fades to a chalky almost acrid bitterness. Thin body with medium to high carbonation. It's passable but I'm not overly keen.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Dec 2020
at 20:23
6/10
Tried
on 25 Dec 2020
at 12:22
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Third by cask, shared with Finn on the third day of GBBF Winter 20, Astbury Bar. Coal black body, patchy surface, dotted spots on the glass. Dark grainy malts on the nose, roasted. Blended taste of berry skins and chocolate malts. Roasted malt-driven end. Satisfying. (Birmingham 06.02.2020).
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Mar 2020
at 08:37
6.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8
Hazy real cask ale, smells great but is a bit oxidized. Otherwise a great beer. Gbbf winter
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Feb 2020
at 17:53
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
På GBBF Winter 2020 i Birmingham. Delt med Rune. Ultramørkebrun / svart. Lavt luftig skum med litt farge. Aroma av røstet malt & eik. Smaken kakao. Tørr. Ekstra tørr avslutning.
Tried
on 06 Feb 2020
at 12:20
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
11.2 oz. bottle. Pours a pitch black color with a small, tight beige head and good retention. Good lacing. Very dark roasted aroma. Flavor of mostly dark roasts and just a hint of black coffee. I don't taste any of the supposed cranberry. Smooth, dark, dry roast finish. Pretty good, but maybe a little too charred.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 May 2019
at 00:11