Yorkshire Stingo
(has 1 batch)
Samuel Smith in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England 🏴
Strong Ale - English Winter|
Score
7.24
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Some of the oak casks at Samuel Smith’s date back more than a century with the individual oak staves being replaced by the Old Brewery coopers over the years. Gradually the casks soak in more & more of the character of the ale fermented in stone Yorkshire squares. Yorkshire Stingo is aged for at least a year, matured in these well-used oak casks in the brewery’s underground cellars deriving fruit, raisin, treacle toffee, Christmas pudding and slight oaky flavours, before being further naturally conditioned in bottle.
Releases: 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016. Please note: Stingo has the year brewed on the back label. Due to barrel aging & bottle-conditioning, the release year is one year after the year brewed.
Releases: 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016. Please note: Stingo has the year brewed on the back label. Due to barrel aging & bottle-conditioning, the release year is one year after the year brewed.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle best before see neck, but the ink is smudged/run and indiscernible. I suspect it is the most recent (2025) batch.
Nice and yeasty, in a good way, with tons of fruit and mineral. Light woody, though no oak tannin, with tasteful caramel and light toffee. Well-aged and rounded stuff with no excess sugar or any other issues.
Stronger in flavor than expected from the nose. There's a strong bitterness with a big, balancing maltiness that has some chewy and almost syrupy toffee-like character, with a huge fruitiness from the yeast keeping things a bit more bright and lively. Woody tannin lingering alongside dried out malt and cherry and orange rind fruitiness. Was worried this would be thin and under flavored but that's not the case at all.
Nice and yeasty, in a good way, with tons of fruit and mineral. Light woody, though no oak tannin, with tasteful caramel and light toffee. Well-aged and rounded stuff with no excess sugar or any other issues.
Stronger in flavor than expected from the nose. There's a strong bitterness with a big, balancing maltiness that has some chewy and almost syrupy toffee-like character, with a huge fruitiness from the yeast keeping things a bit more bright and lively. Woody tannin lingering alongside dried out malt and cherry and orange rind fruitiness. Was worried this would be thin and under flavored but that's not the case at all.
Tried
from Bottle
from
The Wine Garden
on 14 Jun 2026
at 20:11
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Coming from the Wittisch Getränk shop at Olten. Sharing this great and so English ale with my wife. A great and subtle ale or old ale, not common in Switzerland and amazing with smooth notes of malt, toffee, impression of rum, oak, a bit woody, 04.10.21, at Epalinges, purchased at Olten, Wittisch
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 May 2026
at 14:49
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Aromas are malt, toffee, oak and a hint of raisins. Flavors are similar to nose, bittersweet with soft carbonation. Not bad but I think it would be better hand-poled from a firkin.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Bodega Brew Pub, Inc.
on 19 Jan 2026
at 05:04
8.5/10
El Stingo, starring Newman and Redford. Amazing that I've never had this! Classic British strong ale. Complex, strong, full of bittersweet flavor. The oak is there but not too strong. Yeah!
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Nov 2025
at 12:00
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours clear dark amber, with a creamy mocha head. Aroma is roasted malts with bread, caramel, muscovado, dried fruits and heather, as well as leafy minerals, tannins and wine barrels. Full body, with soft to average carbonation. Flavour is roasted malts with syrupy bread, dried fruits and heather, as well as tannins and wooden barrels.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Nov 2025
at 12:28
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Poured from 550mL bottle (bb 31 Jul 28). Lightly hazed amber orange with small light beige head. Soft woody fig and toffee apple with feint honey, seems like there's some feint dry brett character in there, comes together really nicely.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Markus Community Market (Markus Foods)
on 29 Oct 2025
at 06:23
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 7.5
Bottle 0,5 ltr: Clear dark amber colored brew with an sweet bitter taste with notabel sourness by wood. Hints of caramel, dried fruit, nuts, roasted malts and oak.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Oct 2025
at 21:34
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Sample courtesy of Grumbo, cheers Graham! Amber brown colpur, off-white foam head and aroma of malt, toffee, fruit cake, wood, oak. Taste is sweet, malty, toffee, caramel, fruit loaf, raisins, with woody, oaky notes and nutty bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, malty nutty bitter finish. Nicely drinkable.
Tried
on 27 Jul 2025
at 20:05
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2025
at 17:24
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2025
at 17:20