Double Stout (Cask & Bottle Conditioned)
(Batch of Double Stout)
Hook Norton Brewery in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England 🏴
Stout Regular|
Score
7.10
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
500ml bottle. Pours jet black with a white head. Aromas & tastes of coffee, chocolate, dark bread & burnt malt. Medium body. Dry bitter finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask at Coach and Horses, Banbury. Pours pretty much jet black with a small beige head. There’s a lovely aroma of roasted malts here, which carry through into the mouth. Initially there is some coffee and vanilla, but after a while dark fruits and plumskins start to come through. Finish is fruity but with coffee bitterness. A pretty decent stout all round. UPDATE JUNE 2021 thanks to @Imdownthepub for pointing out I had posted the wrong rewview for this one - I'm glad Somebody actually reads this !
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Dunkler, trocken röstiger Start. Milder Hintergrund, wenig Kakao, mild herb. Langer Abgang. Okay. 9/8/8/9/9/8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask @ Calans, Hebden Bridge. Extremely dark with a frothy off-white head. Has mild floral roasted malts and a hint of chocolate.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
550ml bottle from Ocado. Almost black with a long lasting tan head. Aroma of roasted malts, sweet chocolate, toffee. Taste is bittersweet from the chocolatey and roasted coffee-like malt, caramel, toffee, hints of dark fruit. Smooth. Pretty nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Cask at the Eldon Arms, Reading. Black with a thin beige head. Chocolate, malt, toffee, roastiness. Roastiness and bitterness grows in the finish, with a bit of plum coming through. Decent stout.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
500ml bottle kindly shared by Finn. Creamy. Light brown coloured head. Deep ruby coloured body. Dotted spots to the glassware. Dark malt drive nose. Flavoured with chocolate, coffee, and earthy malts. Roasted ending. Medium bodied. Fair enough (session at Finns, Tromsø 05.08.2014).
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Flaske 500ml fra Vinmonopolet, Bestillingsutvalget. Fellesinnkjøp med Rune. Delt med ham og djoeye på Nerstranda 5 Aug 14. Svart. Svakt amber. Litt farge på skummet. Forsiktig aroma av sjokolade. Smaken er syrlig metallisk. Uvariert.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask@Beer Hunters
Dark, almost black color, good creamy beige head. Chocolaty, a bit coffeish aroma. Medium-bodied. Slightly ashy, licorice, coffee. Quite dry and even hoppy dry stout. More substance than in pasteurized bottle.