Weird Beard Brew Co. Black Christmas

Black Christmas

 

Weird Beard Brew Co. in London, Greater London, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Stout - Pastry / Flavoured Winter
Score
6.80
ABV: 4.5% IBU: - Ticks: 54
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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6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

500ml bottle. Quasi black colour with average to huge, frothy, fairly lasting, minimally lacing, beige head. Chocolately, dark malty aroma, hints of couverture, a fruity touch of red berries, a minimal touch of leather. Taste is dry, roasty dark malty, slightly chocolately, a touch of red berries, hints of leather.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Jun 2016 at 15:51


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

KRS 121215. Dark brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is burned, coffee, dried fruit. Flavour is burned, toffee, dried fruit, spices, roasted malt, coffee, chocolate, berries. Medium body. OK beer.

Tried on 22 Mar 2016 at 03:11


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at home in London - sourced. Pours clear, deep reddish brown with a tight, creamy khaki head. The aroma holds mild ashy roast, very slightly tangy berries, suggestions of cocoa. Light sweet flavour with subtle bittersweet baking cocoa, some charred malts and earth, leathery berries. Light bodied with average carbonation. Finishes with further earthy bitterness, faint raisin and dried cranberry, old leather, bitter chocolate. Drinks pretty well, although I’d say it’s somewhat one-dimensional.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Mar 2016 at 12:37


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

Pours black small white head. Smell is roasted malts , pure. Taste is Sharp roasted malts, bitter ,some coffee aspects. Thin, but quite ok

Tried on 17 Jan 2016 at 09:56



7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5

Tap at Billie’s Bier Kafétaria. Dense, thick, frothy, lacing, pale yellowish beige head, very dark ruby brown colour, as good as black. Aroma of roasted pine nuts, blackberry, pepper, rancid butter, toasted bread, balsamic vinegar, hazelnuts, buttermilk and cranberries well-integrated into this whole. Meaty umami onset with a very subdued fig-like sweetishness underneath as well as deep, lightly balsamic-like, soft sourishness; softish carbo, smooth but thick, ’oily’ mouthfeel, pleasant nutty, roasted and bitter chocolate-like maltiness, much more bitter than sweet but gently so, slightly metallic, nice peppery and herbal hop bitterness in the end, dry, with that cranberry sourishness peeping through. Pleasant fruit stout, in which the cranberries are nothing more than an extra accent to the whole, bringing a kind of creamy tartness to it.

Tried from Draft on 03 Jan 2016 at 08:29


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

Bouteille 50cl de et partagée avec 77ships. Brune foncée, col léger blanc-cassé. Arôme au bouquet plaisant, fruité de canneberge présent malgré son caractère fruité discret. Palais est malté, finemetn épicé avec un léger rappel de cardamom, et une note de réglisse. Effervescence est plutôt faible avec un caramel t chocolate très anglais au niveau des malts. Le tout est sec sur la fin et le profil de canneberge ajoute une pointe aigrelette qui se prend bien au côté grille malté.

Tried from Can on 30 Dec 2015 at 02:09


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Trembling Madness Drinks Shop, York. Dark, reddy brown. Creamy tan head. Earthy, fruity malts. Get a little savoury smoke. Hint of Sorachi. Taste is earthy, liquorice root bitter. Some stone fruit bitterness. Good body at the ABV. Roasty, earthy bitter finish. Liked this a lot more than I thought I might.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Dec 2015 at 17:35


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Tap @ In De Wildeman. Black color. Dense beige head with reasonable retention. Aroma’s: roast, ground coffee, with light fruity sourness retronasal. Flavor is roasted, light bitter. Light bodied, not thin. Finishes with more roast and quite bitter. Didn’t get much of the cranberries (not sure if that’s a bad thing), pretty classic style stout.

Tried from Draft on 29 Dec 2015 at 05:55


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Black with creamy head. Flavour is a nice combination of the fruity sweetness of cranberry and a roasted bitter finish.

Tried on 29 Dec 2015 at 05:22