Gravedigger's Biscuits
Turning Point Brew Co. in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England 🏴
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.49
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Can. Nose is filter coffee, malt. Taste is coffee, ash, hint of sweet milk, lightly fruity, in a soy and ash finish with a hint of vanilla.
Nice
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
440ml can at 8.4%. Poured almost black in colour with a short-lived, frothy tan head. The aroma is roasty, big coffee. The flavour is strong sweet, with a smooth, rich, roasty, liquorice, spicy coffee, warm boozy alcohol bitter palate. Over medium bodied with average to soft carbonation and an oily mouthfeel.
Olut (21769) reviewed Gravedigger's Biscuits from Turning Point Brew Co. 6 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
I remember it was an exceptionally hot day, like today, during Live Aid back in 1985, so re-watching it tonight it feels apt. This strong tasting black stout, watched against the backdrop of Queen's set 40 years ago has a booziness that also provides a sweetness to its notable coffee notes, vanilla is evident but not quite as strong. It has a sticky-sweet syrup-like texture.
gave a cheers!
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can at home picked up from ASDA. 8.4 % An opaque jet black brown coloured pour with a fading fine khaki head. Aroma is semi sweet, earthy coffee beans, alcohol, green coffee, brown sugars, Flavour is composed of oily cakey malts, earthy bitter coffee, light tang, medium swet, sticky, brown sugars, oily. Palate is oily, sticky sweet, mellow carbonation, Good robust coffee stout.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
440ml can at 8.4%. Pours jet black with a medium head. Aroma is bitter coffee and milk chocolate with a slight metallic edge. Taste has espresso martini to start with a bitter coffee and chocolate cake finish.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Keg draught at the Rutland CAMRA Beer Festival, June 2023, Rutland County Museum, Oakham. Very near black with a smattering of khaki head. Big aroma of molasses, a touch of liquorice. Taste is resplendent with salted caramel, more molasses. And then the espresso, big and bold. Light body for the ABV, medium carbonation. I can't even. I want to marry this beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Pastry stout from this English craft brewery, supposed to be served in a Martini glass… I had mine from a wine glass, hopefully that qualifies too. Small-bubbled, cobweb-lacing, pale yellowish beige head, medium sized right after pouring but opening and thinning; black robe with hazy mahogany glow about a few millimeters off the edge. Strong nose of fresh espresso (coffee actually having been used here), actual cocoa nibs and vanilla beans, chocolate sauce, walnut oil, dried blueberries, old liquorice, molasses, blood, Chocotoff candy, ‘Haagse hopjes’, hints of vermouth, red wine, milk and blackberry. Sweet onset but luckily not too much so for a present-day flavoured stout, fruity aspects of blue plum, ripe blackberry and dried blueberry but all restrained, medium carb, rounded and oily mouthfeel, yet quite supple and not as thick as expected from this kind of stout. A milk sugar aspect is noticeable and provides some thin creaminess, but otherwise interferes relatively little with layers of toffeeish, chocolatey and walnutty malts; a blood-like iron effect appears around the edges, but very subtly so, as does a blackberry-like sourish touch. Clean, sleek, flavourful finish, clear vanilla and cocoa but even more charming in its coffee addition, with a fine, spicy, ‘warming’ espresso aroma piercing through retronasally – while actual roasted bitterness remains limited. Blueberry, coffee, blood and chocolate effects remain behind, aided by a dash of peppery hops and warming rum-like alcohol, none of which truly comes to the foreground at any point. Compared with so many flavoured stouts nowadays, this one is rather graceful, slender and refined, with less of the pompousness these beers usually have (maybe it is because I did not have it from that Martini glass); for that reason alone, I really enjoyed it. Classy stout.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can from Eltham Wines. Black pour with a tan head. Nose is chocolate digestive, nuts,creamy coffee, raisin. Taste is chocolate digestive, creamy coffee, raisin, light dark fruit action. Sweet malty finish.