Caribbean Chocolate Cake - Nitro (2020-)
Siren Craft Brew in Finchampstead, Berkshire, England 🏴
Collab with: Cigar City BrewingStout - Milk / Sweet Regular
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Score
7.67
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The beer that started it all. Caribbean Chocolate Cake is a dense, rich and luxurious stout – even more so this year with the smooth, thick drinking nitro edition. The body of this beer is full and decadent, encapsulating the ‘Cake’ element in the name more than ever before! Hand-roasted cacao nibs give hints of tamarind and soft lemon, along with a beautiful chocolate baseline. The malts provide coffee and roast notes in abundance, while the hop profile adds orange and coconut flavours. Spinning on Cypress wood is the icing on the cake - offering lightly toasted vanilla wafers and delicate tannins, balancing the inherent sweetness of the beer. Pure canned indulgence.
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7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Pours black, creamy tanned , slow rising (nitro!) head. Scent is green coffee, roasty, mild chocolate. Taste is full, creamy, coffee, roast (mild green coffee notes) . Easy drinker, not as great as previous editions. --- Beer merged from original tick of Caribbean Chocolate Cake ( Nitro 2021 ) on 29 Nov 2021 at 12:15 - Score: Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7. Original review text: Pours black, full, creamy medium sized darkly tanned head. Scent is full, roasty, bit coffee. Taste is medium full, very roasty. Coffee. Crisp bean character. Milder chocolate, that intensifies towards the end. Medium low 'carbo' due to the nitro.
Tried
on 14 Sep 2021
at 09:07
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can from The Gull, North Vancouver
Black colour; it doesn't have the full nitro cascade, but it has a medium sized creamy brownish head. Nice aroma of dark chocolate and chocolate cake; the mouthfeel is smooth, the sweetness is mild, the chocolate and cacao flavour is strong, some roasted nuts.
Good.
Black colour; it doesn't have the full nitro cascade, but it has a medium sized creamy brownish head. Nice aroma of dark chocolate and chocolate cake; the mouthfeel is smooth, the sweetness is mild, the chocolate and cacao flavour is strong, some roasted nuts.
Good.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Jul 2021
at 17:18
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
12oz on Alex's porch. Appearance: dark brown with a nice beige nitro head. Aroma: some roasted malts and chocolate. Taste: along the same lines, on the thin side (cause of nitro probably), moderately sweet, roasty aftertaste. Overall: pretty good.
Tried
on 11 Jul 2021
at 05:11
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
330mL can, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma reveals gentle cocoa nibs and some metallic notes from the nitrogenation. Flavour reveals gentle cocoa nibs and English bready malt. Somewhat chocolatey, fairly thin and not overly complex, but the English malt is nice. Not sure how this is rated so highly. It's decent at best.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Jul 2021
at 06:13
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
As usual, I don’t need the nitro aspect. Nice stuff though. All you’d expect. Smooth and not boozy, rich fruitiness. Touch of spice.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Jun 2021
at 13:47
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
330 ml can. Pours black with full nitro head. Aromas of dark powdery chocolate, a little wood and dark roasted malts. Flavors of sweet dark chocolate and dry bitter roasted malts. A really nice combo without a huge ABV
Tried
from Can
on 27 Jun 2021
at 00:40
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Jet black with a medium head. Aroma of warm booze chocolate. Flavour is bitter chocolate, warm fruit, chocolate cake finish.
Tried
on 24 Apr 2021
at 20:21
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Panda thanks to Cloin: Poured a deep black with a brown head. Aroma is rich chocolate, malty, cacao, vanilla, doughy. Taste is rich chocolate and cacao, roasted malts, hint of bitterness, just so smooth in the finish but that chocolate remained.
Tried
on 20 Feb 2021
at 00:17
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can at home picked up from siren online. An opaque black coloured pour with a dense lasting dark tan head. Aroma is bitter black roast, liquorice, light spice, meaty roast, salt. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, rich dark chocolate , dark liquorice, cakey malts, milky chocolate, light spice, Jamaica spice. Palate is creamy milky, oily, lowest carbonation. Good stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Feb 2021
at 00:54
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can sample at a tasting at Yana's place. Lots of chocolate, fudge, wood, sweet, medium-bodied, nitro mouthfeel.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Feb 2021
at 19:24