6.6

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Deep dark brown with a ruby tinge, a frothy tan head and a chocolate and coffee malt aroma. Fresh and bright with coffee notes, roasted malt and a dry bitter finish.

Shrewsbury CAMRA Beer Festival 2025

6.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask at the Queens Head, Stourbridge. Pours very dark reddy brown with a small head. Aroma is dry roast with a little coffee. Taste has dry and fruity roast with a little liquroice on the finish.

01/01/2008. ROYAL OAK, Lower Bristol Road, BATH, Bath & North East Somerset, England (FOUR COUNTY INNS)

7

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

Cask at The Wellington, Birmingham. A dark brown/black coloured pour with a decent off white head on top. Roasty, malty, liquorice, dark chocolate/fruit. A pleasant tasting porter.

8.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Cask at Bird in Hand, Stafford – though I have drunk it before some time ago. Pours a very dark reddish – brown with a small beige head. The aroma is a heady concoction of smoke, liquorice and chocolate. In the mouth it has a sweet and creamy texture, with piles of liquorice in the flavour. There’s roasted malts and hitns of ash and herbs too. Finish is smoky and slightly bitter. This is awesome !

6.5

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

Half-pint, cask at Blue Boar in Leicester. A Finn beer shared with Finn! Black in the glass, low fawn coloured head, clingy lacing. Black malty nose, dry. Taste of oak, liquorice and a backdrop of smoked malts. Quite alright, easy to drink. (10.02.2019).

7

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

Delt med Rune i hyggelig selskap av jjsint. Svart. 0 skum. God sjokoladearoma. Smaken lakris. Tørr avslutning.

7.1

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6.5

Handpull cask from the Blue Boar, Leicester. Purplish black and opaque with a khaki head. Liquorice dominates the aroma, although there's a touch of burnt oak and heavy malt. The taste is more balanced than I'd feared, with some medicinal acidity in the finish. Herbal bitterness in the aftertaste with a suggestion of molasses. Complex and moreish. Too much liquorice for me but otherwise it's a fine, fine porter.

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask at the Wellington; dark brown pour with a thin tan head, aroma has a hint of liquorice, dark fruits, taste has liquorice, some chocolate, fruit.

7.1

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

Lukt: Malt, svak sjokolade og frukter.
Utseende: Sort.
Skum/kullsyre: Dekkende skum.
Smak: Frukter, røsta malt og vanilje.
Hvor: 27 th Ealing Beer Festival.
Medium: Tapp@150ml, ABV@4,7%, Når@06.07.2016