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

Half pint from the cask at the Sandford Park Alehouse in Cheltenham. Pours black with a beige head. Aromas & tastes of chocolate, cocoa & roasted malt. Medium body. Soft finish

01/01/2018. QUARTER JACK, 18 Priory Road, WELLS, Somerset, England (WETHERSPOONS)

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

Rochdale Beer Festival 2017. Very dark with a surprisingly easy-drinking light texture, but with stated enough roasted malts in both aroma and taste.

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

Bottle shared with D&C at the 1st Ipswich bottle share (West Country themed). Poured black with a very small beige colour head. Aroma is roasted, chocolate, malty. Light sweetness, quite heavy bitterness. Medium bodied, slick texture, average carbonation. Finish is dry and bitter.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Cask at GBBF 2016. It pours darkest brown with a small beige head. The aroma is rich, soft, bitter- sweet, roasted malt and chocolate powder. The taste is bitter, roasted malt, lots of charred wood, burnt toast, liquorice and some astringency with a very dry finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Too burnt and astringent in my opinion. I had hoped for more.

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

Cask at GBBF ’16, day one, 09/08/16. Dark mahogany brown with a beige head. Nose is roast malt, chocolate dusting, toffee, biscuit, light charr. Taste comprises tangy dark fruits, liquorice, light cocoa rub, pinch of spice. Medium bodied, moderate carbonation, moderately drying close. Adequate stout.

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

Sampled @ GBBF day 1. Very dark brown to black color, average sized beige head. Smell and taste malts, quite some dark roasted malts, malt bitter, lightly iron. Hmm ok beer.

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

Gbbf. Sehr dunkel orange braunes Bier. Geruch schokoladig süß malzig. Geschmack schokoladig röstmalzig, wenig Kaffee.

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

Cask at GBBF 2016 09/08/2016. An opaque black chestnut brown coloured pour with a loose dirty tan head . Aroma is black malts, toasted pine, citrus hop, American c hop,. Flavour is composed of woody charred malts, bitter pine needle toasted earthy malts. Palate is semi sweet, moderate carbonation, slightly thin. Potential black ipa.

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

Bottle generously donated by Jeremy and brought to me by Sabine, cheers! Slow gusher upon opening. Towering high, foamy, moussy and very dense, pale beige, lacing head, slowly receding over an opaque black beer which turns out to be a very dark yellow brown in the end. Initially not very stout-like, yet pleasant nose of blackberry, raw rhubarb, redcurrant, fresh orange or even lemon and other fruity odours mingling with the basic, in this case rather subdued aromas of caramel, candi syrup, old bitter chocolate bars and faint coffee grounds, with further spicy (partially phenolic and partially hoppy) hints of mint, fresh ginger, flowers and liquorish. Crisp, refreshing onset of blackberry and redcurrant sourishness mixed with fig sweetishness and a subtle leathery and meaty umami touch, sparkling carbo but softening after a while. Middle phase has nutty and toasted malts, restrainedly sweetish but most of all bittering and mouth-coating, with a very oily, slick mouthfeel; a drying, sourish and deeply bittering, almost ’ashy’ roastedness takes over and dominates the finish, where, all the way in the end, it is reinforced with a spicy hop bitterness yielding some herbal and floral aromas retronasally and lasting quite long; the initial, soft, dark berry sourishness also lingers for a long time. Has more body than expected from a 4.5% ABV beer even if it is a stout; the yeasty effects in the nose distract a bit from the malts but somehow make this stout more interesting and individual than it would have been if a cleaner yeast strain would have been used. The effect is almost that of a Belgian stout... Still recognizably Anglo-Saxon though, and definitely a fine, refreshing, aromatic example of a dry stout. Very enjoyable.