A dark, bitter stout. Roast and nut aromas with a fruity balance of hops and dark malt provide an excellent lingering finish.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask (Queens Arms, Basingstoke) - Black with a tan head. Coffee, roasted malt and plain chocolate in the aroma. Roasted taste with plain chocolate, coffee and hints of blackcurrant.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Jul 2016
at 09:54
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at praf 2016. Pours black, nose is toffee, chocolate, berries, taste is sweet, chewy toffee, chocolate.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Apr 2016
at 12:29
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at the Paisley Beer Festival 2016. Pours clear dark brown with a short-lived thin beige head. Aromas of cola, panda cola in fact. Taste is sweet, more cola. Dull.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Apr 2016
at 09:02
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle, 0.50l, shared with colleagues. Pitch black color with thin creamy light brown head and nice lacing. Aroma of heavily roasted malt, smoke, charcoal and leather. Taste starts with light sweet but rich roasted malt with nutty note, following is smoky and mild fruity, mouthfeel is dry, while finish is mild bitter. Medium body, creamy texture and soft carbonation in palate. This one was incredibly hard to drink, smoke and leather notes were too strong...
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Feb 2015
at 10:44
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle at home from waitrose, thanks to Sarah for picking this one up. Opaque black coloured pour with a nice compact light tan head that hades to a halo. Aroma is sweet caramel, nutty malts with a little dirty ashy edge. Considerable berry fruits on the nose as well. Later there is some soapy notes. Flavour is rounded milky lactose sweetness, caramel and chocolatey roast. English yeast with fruity berry esers. Palate is nice and rounded pretty full bodied, pretty milky sweet. Nice rounded stout.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Sep 2014
at 13:49
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at the Kidbrooke Beer Festival, 2014. Dark brown pour with beige head. Licorice and chocolate aroma. Licorice, sweet spice and chocolate flavour.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 May 2014
at 07:51
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 Apr 2012: hand-pulled pint in my local Wetherspoons. Black as the ace of spades with very little head showing, this looked a mean brew. The aroma given off was of roasted, slightly burnt malts with a nutty feel (like an over cooked nut roast, that veggie’s eat). Sweeter in the mouth than the nose: some caramel hints in with the malty nut roast. Deep and thick bodied, couldn’t call it ‘rich’ or ‘creamy’, but certainly had a depth of flavour. An OK Stout.
Tried
on 19 Jul 2012
at 05:43
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask @ JDW Inverness...Only brief notes here.....
Very dark brown black, tan head....Aroma of roasted malts...Taste of deep roasted malt, touch of burnt wood, dark malts, bit of dark toffee, rich soft burnt flavour. Palate - soft carb, medium body. Finish - quite a complex rich roast malt finish.
Very dark brown black, tan head....Aroma of roasted malts...Taste of deep roasted malt, touch of burnt wood, dark malts, bit of dark toffee, rich soft burnt flavour. Palate - soft carb, medium body. Finish - quite a complex rich roast malt finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Apr 2012
at 13:06
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at Blackfriars, Aberdeen. It pours black, with a ruby tinge and a foamy beige head. The nose is chocolate, dark fruit, charcoal and soap. The taste is chocolate, liquorice, varnish, cherry, dark fruit, roasted malt, charcoal and some alcohol warmth, with a dry finish. Medium to full body, fine carbonation, velvety mouth-feel and good balance. Nice.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Nov 2011
at 03:47
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
From cask. Pours dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is roasted dark malty and breadish to roasted. Bitter, dark malty and roasted. Breadish and slight herbal. Bitter and dry finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Aug 2011
at 22:52