Parkin Cake
Cloudwater Brew Co in Manchester, Greater Manchester, England 🏴
Brown Ale - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.16
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To celebrate our 500th gyle, we made cake. And you're all invited to have a piece!
Parkin Cake is an Imperial Brown Ale brewed to replicate the Northern speciality Parkin, a traditional cake made with oatmeal, black treacle and ginger.
This 10% ABV treat has a complex malt base and was brewed with black treacle, dark muscovado sugar, ginger, allspice and nutmeg. It's rich and smooth with layers of sweet treacle and spice leading to a drying finish full of warming ginger.
Parkin Cake is an Imperial Brown Ale brewed to replicate the Northern speciality Parkin, a traditional cake made with oatmeal, black treacle and ginger.
This 10% ABV treat has a complex malt base and was brewed with black treacle, dark muscovado sugar, ginger, allspice and nutmeg. It's rich and smooth with layers of sweet treacle and spice leading to a drying finish full of warming ginger.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can at home. A reddish, brwon coloured pour with a fading loose tan head. Aroma is sweet brown sugars, golden apple, cinnamon, little spicy nutmeg, tangy brown sugars, bruised apple. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, tangy, bruised apple, cinnamon apple pastry, woody spices, decent fruit cake, . Palate is semi sweet sticky, moderate carbonation/
Tried
from Can
on 10 Apr 2020
at 22:56
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can at home in Hackney - sourced from the London taproom IIRC. Pours clear brown with reddish tints and a fast-fading fizzy tan head. Prominent adjuncts and alcohol, lots of lightly spicy ginger, toasted bread, some caramel, vague autumnal spices, toasted sugars, a smattering of tangy berries. Full bodied with fine, massaging carbonation. Sweet and warming in the finish, lightly sticky sweet, with more ripe and lightly tangy berries, festive spicing, booze, toffee. Kind of fun but anyone who enjoys drinking a whole can of this is a special kind of peculiar.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Aug 2019
at 18:38
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
440ml can. Pours a deep amber brown with a small light brown head. Aroma is sweet and spicy, ginger, nutmeg, dark malts, sugar. Taste is the same very spicy plenty of ginger and nutmeg, sweet, sugary, treacle, very cake-y flavours, warming booze (and spice) lingers. Medium bodied, soft carbonation.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Nov 2018
at 22:29
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can from Cotteridge Wines; dark chestnut brown pour with a bubbly light tan head, aroma has dark fruit and treacle, taste has dark treacle, fruit in rich syrup, ginger cake, winter spices, cardamom and cinnamon, hot alcohol.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Nov 2018
at 20:14
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
440ml can @ Pien. Poured cola brown. Spicy with ginger up front. Nutmeg, xmasy aroma. Flavor has ginger, clove, nutmeg. Bready, malty. Borderline sweetness.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Nov 2018
at 15:28
8/10
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Tried
from Can
on 27 Oct 2018
at 15:24
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
(Can, 0.44 l - canned on 13.09.18, at Pien, 20181023) The beer poured clear and dark brown. Its head was medium sized and nearly white. Aroma had malts, allspice, ginger and caramel. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were malts, caramel, allspice, ginger, sweetness and bitterness. Aftertaste was spicy and bitter. A very spicy brew and still surprisingly drinkable.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Oct 2018
at 15:39
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can from Hoptimist. Cloudy deep brown colour with a thin tan head. Aroma ginger spicy and warming. Taste spicy sweet. Full body.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Oct 2018
at 19:40
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can, 10%. Unclear dark brown with small beige head. Aroma is malt, caramel, toasted, spices and candy. Flavour is malt, caramel, toasted, spices, candy, sweet, warming, notes of alchol and a little bitter.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Oct 2018
at 19:11
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
On tap at What's Brewing Beer Festival 2018, Stavanger. Pours hazy dark brown with light brown head. Aroma of dark dried fruits, herbs, mint, plums, licorice, red wine, nuts, chocolate. Tastes slightly sweet with little bitterness. Medium bodied, smooth mouthfeel.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Oct 2018
at 14:50