Caribbean Chocolate Pancake Stack
Siren Craft Brew in Finchampstead, Berkshire, England 🏴
Stout - Smoked Special|
Score
7.68
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Black with a minimal head. Aroma of dark chocolate malt. Flavour is bitter chocolate, milky dark malts, sweet barrel finished
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can at home picked up from Siren online. A jet black brown coloured pour with a decent creamy dark tan head that fades a bit. Aroma is big spicy fruit cake, woody cinnamon, little sweet maple, tangy dark fruit, light alcohol booze, hint of charcoal. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, rounded nutty malts, with a little smoky roast, fruit and nut, spicy fruit cake. some blueberry fruit. Palate is medium bodies, rounde, slightly creamy, mellow carbonation, light tang.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Panda thanks to Cloin: Poured a deep black with a tan color head. Aroma is coffee, chocolate, roasted malts. Taste is spices, chocolate, run, alcohol, roasted malts. Very tingly!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Spotty tan cover sat on a beautiful near black still body. Marzipan, cocoa & chocolate aroma. Full bodied, smooth, oily & lightly carbonated on the back with a lighter clean back. Rich chocolate, cocoa, marzipan, lactose & roasted tastes with a sweet fruity finish. It's a meal!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can at home, from Siren online, 30/01/21. Pitch black with a good sized dirty tan head. Nose is dark malts, maple syrup, light spice, mellow roast, treacle toffee, light charr. Taste comprises roasted bite, brown sugar sprinkle, light coffee bean, dark malts, burnt toffee, dried fruits, maple syrup, trace of pancake batter, chocolate chips. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close. Decent flavoursome stout.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Can at home, 9th January 2021. Pours black. Aroma is dark malts, sweet chocolate, light spice. Taste is sweet, chocolate, rich, cake, it’s alright, a bit sweet, not as good as the original
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Another one of these new Caribbean chocolate cake variants by Siren, this one intending to evoke pancakes, apparently… Thanks Steve for sharing. Pale greyish beige, mousy, opening head, retaining well around the edge and in flat ‘veils’ in the middle, very dark chocolate brown robe – near black, but still with mahogany glow. Aroma of hot chocolate sauce, a lot of cinnamon, maple syrup, mocha ice cream, toffee, liquorice, latte macchiato, vanilla, espresso, cappuccino, caramel sauce, touch of incense. Sweet onset, dry raisins, very light umami accent, soft carb with full, oily, smooth body; caramelly and hazelnutty malt core with a bitter-chocolatey and eventually roasted coffee bitter edge, heavily sprinkled with cinnamon powder and the bitterness accentuated by a peppery hop dose; coffee and cinnamon linger with a dash of maple syrup, highlighted by very well-positioned, rum-like alcohol. Still carries a lot of ‘old school’ roasted bitterness, like the others in this series, but at the same time it manages to convey the pancake idea, albeit one with a whole lot of cinnamon on top. Delicious and very well made – among the better Siren brews I had to date, now that I come to think of it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Lovely stuff. Nutty, maple, chocolate. Complex, interesting! Bit smoky
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can at home in Hackney - picked up from Clapton Craft. Pours deep black-brown with a sturdy, frothy beige head. Medium sweet with restrained ashy roast, bittersweet chocolate, nips of maple, scorched earth, old wood, raisins. Medium bodied with fine, massaging carbonation. A nip of stickiness in the finish, suggestions of maple, bitter dark chocolate, roast, oak, suggestions of dark fruits. Nice depth and also really drinkable. Solid.