Stone Dead
Lymestone Brewery in Stone, Staffordshire, England 🏴
Stout - Foreign / Extra Regular|
Score
7.03
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Rich and dark, this award winning Imperial Stout has enough bite for anyone looking to satisfy their thirst. Roasted malt, coffee, burnt toast, and bitter fruit flavours yield to Millennium, Nugget and Styrian Golding hops.
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7.5/10
Bottle at home while watching England thrash Wales. An excellent stout made all the better by the result of the match.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Mar 2025
at 17:00
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 10
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Cask at Picture House, Stafford. Pours almost black with a medium sized beige head. The aroma is a curious mixture of coffee and shoe polish – with some roast malts thrown in for good measure ! In the mouth coffee grounds are the immediate flavour, along with roast malts and toasty. Gradually liquorice, damsons, and unripe bitter fruits grow to join them. Alcoholic strength only comes out in the finish which is bitter and boozy. This is a top notch beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Oct 2022
at 20:42
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Keg at the Borehole, Stone. Very dark, almost black with a very small tan head. Charcoal, fresh grass, some caraway in the aroma. Sweet, herbal taste, with strong notes of liquorice, thyme, bitter unripe blackberry. Chalky bitterness in the finish. Carbonated to hell and back, which quite suites the heaviness of the beer. A top, top stout.
Tried
on 21 Nov 2019
at 15:32
8/10
Tried
on 27 Oct 2017
at 17:36
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled (backlog). More or less black colour with a small slightly off-white creamy head. Aroma is chocolate, coffee, some rye bread and mild liquorice as well as wooden ntoes. Flavour is liquorice, chocolate, roasted malts, some wood as well as mild floral notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2017
at 23:57
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Keighley & Worth Valley Railway Beer Festival 2016. Extremely dark with a notable strength, although there’s a good, smoothish roasted malt aroma and taste to enjoy, but is a little on the overbearing side after a while.
Tried
on 25 Jan 2017
at 09:24
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at Birmingham Beer Festival 2016; dark brown pour with a thin tan head, aroma has dark fruits, taste has sweet chocolate, bitter coffee, some roast.
Tried
from Cask
on 27 Oct 2016
at 14:12
6/10
Tried
on 16 Oct 2015
at 18:53
6/10
Tried
on 31 Aug 2015
at 12:40
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
500ml bottle from Beer Me Up Scotty, Shrewsbury. Pours dark. Nice thick liquorice malt nose. Taste continues with leather, earth and coffee coming through. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 May 2015
at 16:34