Polygraph
Salopian Brewery in Hadnall, Shropshire, England 🏴
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.76
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Polygraph is a full flavoured stout with toast, liquorice, hints of dark fruit, chocolate and mocha that are tempered by crisp tart bitterness and a smooth velvety texture.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
330ml bottle. Pours black with a tan head. Aroma is malty, roasted malts and dark fruits, chocolate, liquorice, some hops. Taste is chocolatey, roasted malts, dark fruits and liquorice, some citrus and earthy piney hops but not too much, quite a bitter finish. Medium body, soft carbonation. Decent stout.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2017
at 16:28
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
330ml bottle. 7.4%. Pours black-brown in colour with a foamy biege head leaving lacing and aroma of powdered chocolate, dark malts, molasses, with citrusy hop. Taste is roasted malty, sweetish, molasses, dried fruits, coffee & dark chocolate, liqourice, woody oak, vanilla with some tangy citrus hop notes and earthy bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, dry roast bitter finish. Nicely drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Sep 2017
at 14:10
7/10
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Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Sep 2017
at 21:32
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
(Cask at Craft Beer Co St Mary Axe, London, 25 Nov 2016) Black colour with frothy, brown head. Malty, roasted nose with black coffee, liquorice, cacao and chocolate cake. Malty, roasted taste with notes of strong black sweet coffee, liquorice, dark chocolate, a touch of pine needles and a generous roasty bitterness. More than medium body, with a certain sweetness. Tasty and well made, with lots of chocolate and coffee. Very nice.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Mar 2017
at 14:57
7/10
Tried
on 01 Feb 2017
at 21:52
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Sampled from bottle at home, kindness of Maakun. Black with tan head. Sweet roasted choco malts, distinct floral notes, dank hops. Moderate sweet and bitter. Medium body, soft carbonation and bittersweet chocolatey finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of Polygraph on 09 Jan 2018 at 10:39 - Score: 7
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Feb 2017
at 15:00
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle shared. Black with good sized brown head. Orange, lychee, coffee, cocoa, light flowers, almonds, soft herbs, cardboard, brown bread. Medium sweet and bitter. Over medium bodied with powdery cocoa feel. Quite nice but something seems a bit off with this bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Feb 2017
at 14:51
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
330ml bottle from the eebria sell-off. Pours black with a thick tan head. Aromas of dark chocolate, liquorice, burnt toast, burnt orange. Taste is bitter, liquorice, pine, more dark chocolate. Oily texture, bitter finish. Falls in the hoppy stout bracket of BIPAs, but a nice drop.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jan 2017
at 01:54
8.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
Bottle at home, 10th November 16. Pours a rich, black, slick. Aroma is liquorice, roasted malts, chocolate, complex. Taste is so complex, bitter, citrus, bitter, dark chocolate, aromatic, floral, delicious, roasty, toasty. Thick mouth feel. Fantastic BIPA or hoppy stout.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Nov 2016
at 14:52
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
On keg at the Hanging Bat. Appearance - opaque black with a lovely fawn head. Nose - pine and a touch of pith. Then the chocolate slowly follows it in. Taste - burnt toast and chocolate. Kiwi and molasses at the back. Palate - medium bodied with a creamy texture and a long elegant finish. Overall - decent black ipa but edging in style towards a stout.
Tried
on 31 Oct 2016
at 09:32