Gadds' The Ramsgate Brewery Spread of Democracy

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Gadds' The Ramsgate Brewery in Broadstairs, Kent, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Collab with: Põhjala
  Porter - Baltic Regular
Score
7.56
ABV: 5.3% IBU: - Ticks: 13
Collaboration with Põhjala for the Citizens of Everywhere project. Brewed with spruce tips and juniper berries.

Full bodied dark ale with tones of coffee, chocolate, juniper, spruce and smoke.
 

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7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Older tick from a Beer52 delivery - looked nice in the glass with a stable head. Malts, hops, cocoa/choclate, toffee and a hint of pines. Enjoyed it.

Tried from Can on 07 Aug 2025 at 11:23


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

330ml can - Pours black with a small tan head that settled. Aroma is rich and roasted, dark chocolate, roasted malts and big piney notes. A moderately sweet to light sweet taste, roasted malts, black coffee, bitter chocolate, burnt caramel and pine flavours with a smooth bitter roasted finish. Very nice.

Tried from Can on 30 Sep 2020 at 19:27


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

Can from Left Field Beer. Black with a light brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, coffee, licorice and herbal. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and roasted moderate bitter finish. Oily. 260320

Tried from Can on 26 Mar 2020 at 19:45


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

Can: Poured a black brown with a finger high light brown head. Aroma is berries, chocolate and roasted malts. Taste is soft berries, chocolate, rich and roasty malts, dry on the palate.

Tried from Can on 23 Mar 2020 at 00:05


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

22/3/2020. Can from Beer52. Better than average beer that I've had from them. Very nice looking pour - black with a good sized beige to tan coloured head. Aroma of roasted malt, chocolate, light toffee, hops and pine with a touch of liquorice and citrus. Moderate sweetness and medium bitterness with a tart edge. Body seemed fuller to start. Bit oily. Nicely done.

Tried from Can on 22 Mar 2020 at 22:58


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

Keg at six degrees north Edinburgh... Dark black.. Thin tan lacing.. Soft chocolate roast.. Dark heavy pine roast nose.. Dark roast.. Big pine.. Tiny sospy.. Thin dark roast malts
Earlier Rating: 8/17/2019 Total Score: 3
can at home .. christmas2019 ... deep black .. thoon tan lcing .. soft malts .. dark roast .. pine chocolate .. soft malts roast ... thin chocolate roast ... dark sweet chcolate .. big soft smoke

Tried from Can on 09 Sep 2019 at 17:28


7.8
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

[33cl can from Beer52.] A glossy opaque black pour with a tight chocolate coloured head; some cocoa and wood smoke aromas; rich, smooth and fruity in the mouth with a milk chocolate body and a nicely balanced bitterness from the spruce; the finish is creamy with lasting bitterness, sour fruit, and an earthy base. Excellent.

Tried from Can on 29 Jun 2019 at 22:43


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

On tap at Thomas Tallis Canterbury. Black beer lasting tan head 5.3% smooth dark chocolate roasted flavour. Good I thought. Good depth. Good dark chocolate roast. So smooth and dry. Liked it.

Tried from Draft on 14 Apr 2019 at 06:13


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

330ml can from Beer 52; BBE Mar 2020. Drank at home on 7th April 2019. One of the darkest, black beers I have ever seen, brown/tanned foaming blanket on top. Viscous, oily pour. Malty aroma and taste with coffee and chocolate esters and flavours, some liquorice notes in there too. Nice.

Tried from Can on 08 Apr 2019 at 07:12


7.6
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Opaque beer, big thick head. Light, malty, almost spiced aroma. Flavour is a really interesting mix with the smokey, earthy malt being balanced by the fresh, cooling spruce flavour along with some coffee and dark chocolate. Rich and smooth, this is about as tasty as you can ask a beer at this strength to be.

Tried from Can on 06 Apr 2019 at 21:32