Candlewick
Torrside Brewing in New Mills, Derbyshire, England 🏴
Stout Regular|
Score
7.06
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Deep Dark Stout from Derbyshire.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Xmas gift from the missus. Nearly black. Good tan head is glossy dense and lasting. Nose has char. Liquorice. Bit of Turkish coffee. Taste has some sweetness up front but is mostly dry and ashy bitter. Plenty of depth and flavour. Drinks well overall. Dry light bitter finish. Impressive for the 4%.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jan 2026
at 18:02
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Third of a pint on cask at Doncaster Brewery Tap 5:17 PM 6 Sep 23
Tried
from Cask
at
Doncaster Brewery Tap
on 19 Dec 2025
at 08:56
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Keg at Overdraft Bedford Place. Opaque cola brown. Thin foamy beige head. Aroma is lowest key. Some berries and coffee... I guess. Flavourwise we have tangy berries and coldbrew coffee. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Soft-average carbonation. Long dry somewhat astringent finish. Dece.
Tried
from Draft
at
Overdraft - Bedford Place
on 20 Sep 2025
at 21:39
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Tried
from Draft
at
Overdraft - Bedford Place
on 20 Sep 2025
at 17:18
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Keg at Overdraft Southampton, South Coast Jolly Boys Day Out 20/09/2025.
Black topped with a lasting khaki cap.
Nose is cocoa powder, dark malts, herb, mellow roast.
Taste comprises toffee, dried fruit rinds, faint liquorice, chocolate biscuit, ashen nip.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close.
Tidy stout for the relatively meagre ABV.
Black topped with a lasting khaki cap.
Nose is cocoa powder, dark malts, herb, mellow roast.
Taste comprises toffee, dried fruit rinds, faint liquorice, chocolate biscuit, ashen nip.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close.
Tidy stout for the relatively meagre ABV.
Tried
on 20 Sep 2025
at 11:29
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 4
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Nose is very roasty and smokey, ash, tobacco dominate, with soy and faint chocolate. Taste is roast, smoke, lots of ash, a little coffee, medicinal, light soy. Thinner body than you would imagine and very bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Apr 2022
at 21:27
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
# 2830; 4/2022. Roasty to smoky aroma. Opaque dar brown body; persistant pale brown head. Milk chocolate, roasty, smoky. Very good stout. 0,5 l, bottle, beershop, Buxton (Midland, England).
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Apr 2022
at 18:42
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at Crewe Dog, Crewe. Pours a very dark reddish brown with a small beige head and good lacing. Some roast malts in the nose, but not particularly pronounced. In the mouth it has a creamy texture but is a ibt thin. Initial flavour is vanilla, but later on liquorice and cough mixture come to the fore. Chocolate is there too adding to an underlying sweetness. Finish is bitter and spicy with aniseed. This is a nice and complex beer, that isn’t too overwhelming – just right !
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Sep 2021
at 20:06
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Nov 2020
at 17:01
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
500ml bottle from Chesterfield Craft. Nice dark appearance, modest tan head. Woody roast on the nose. Taste brings proper woody charred, big coffee, bitter dark chocolate.. relatively light bodied. Good stuff this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Feb 2020
at 20:59