Darkness
Exeter Brewery in Exeter, Devon, England 🏴
Stout Regular|
Score
6.82
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Darkness – The Prince of Ales lives up to its name; black as midnight, this is a well balanced but complex chocolate stout. Deliciously smooth, made with English Goldings hops, Chocolate malt, Roasted Barley and rich dark molasses.
The rich bitter-chocolate taste of Darkness® is created using a complex mash of premium malts including Chocolate Malt, which derives its characteristic coffee/chocolate flavour and aroma from subtle roasting during the malting process.
The rich bitter-chocolate taste of Darkness® is created using a complex mash of premium malts including Chocolate Malt, which derives its characteristic coffee/chocolate flavour and aroma from subtle roasting during the malting process.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at Shrewsbury Hotel, Shrewsbury. Pours a very dark reddish-brown with a small cream head. Malts are the mainstay of the aroma, plus hints of cola and coffee. In the mouth it is slightly sweet with a smoky texture. Roast malts and coffee hit the taste buds first, but liquorice then overpowers them. Hints of dandelion and burdock also. Some bitterness in the dry finish. This is a decent all round stout.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Mar 2024
at 20:06
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Fra cask på The Lyric: brunsvart med ok skum. Meget elegant røstet maltsmak med sjokolade, lys kaffe, et par bjørnebær og hint av barskog. Mild og sjarmerende avslutning. Supersmud og oppløftende.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Aug 2023
at 15:25
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask-conditioned at the Raven, Bath, 14/6/2023. Dark brown in colour, with a slight, off-white, head. Chocolate, toasty malts, a hint of nuttiness, brown sugar and a gentle finish. Good.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Jul 2023
at 14:09
7/10
Cask @Raven, Bath. 18/12/2022. Color negro opaco corona de espuma beige aromas y sabores torrefactos café, cuerpo sedoso.
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Dec 2022
at 17:06
6/10
Tried
on 17 Oct 2022
at 15:45
Tried
on 30 Sep 2022
at 13:49
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask at the imperial Jdw Exeter. A clear dark mahogany brown coloured pour with small loose beige head. Aroma is dry earthy roast, black sugars, liquorice charcoal. Flavour is composed of semi sweet burnt sugars, liquorice, earth, burnt cake. Palate is semi sweet, little sticky, lowish carbonation. Ok
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Jun 2022
at 17:34
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle from Sidmouth Unwrapped. Poured almost black in colour with a mostly lasting frothy off-white head. The aroma is roasty malt, light chocolate. The flavour is moderate liqourice bitter and sweet, with a smooth, rich, liqourice, coffee, light chocolate, liqourice bitter palate. Medium bodied with average to soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Sidmouth Unwrapped
on 01 Jun 2022
at 21:58
6/10
--- Beer merged from original tick of Darkness - The Prince of Ales on 03 Feb 2019 at 21:25 - Score: 6
Tried
on 20 Jan 2022
at 05:33
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Deep brown, near black, with a red hue and a roasted malt aroma, with a hint of port and berry fruit. Medium bodied, dry and bitter with fruity roasted malt in abundance, and a touch of chocolate in the finish
Tried
on 17 Aug 2021
at 13:51