Minos
Alpha Delta Brewing in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, England 🏴
Stout - Foreign / Extra Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.35
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Tommann (7675) reviewed Minos from Alpha Delta Brewing 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
440ml can. Pours jet black with a large head. Aroma is sweet liquorice and tar. Taste has sweet tar, roast and liquorice throughout.
WingmanWillis (38720) ticked Minos from Alpha Delta Brewing 2 years ago
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Minos from Alpha Delta Brewing 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Greige, thick head over jet-black beer; pouring like used motor oil. Speculoos and roast, some bitterhops and liquorice, cigarette ashes and meat. Cigarette ashes, sweet malts, sweet meat, again wood ashes, woodfire. FInish is indeed dry, whilst so far it was rather sweet. Amazingly complex beer, flavours constantly changing, but never clashing. Impressed! Txs to Stef!
rhoihessegold (9408) ticked Minos from Alpha Delta Brewing 3 years ago
RuneBlix (26478) reviewed Minos from Alpha Delta Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
150ml draught at Agenturet Øl og Vinbar. A tan-coloured ring to the rim of the glass, spotty lacing, coal black body. Roasted treacle aromas, scent of caramel-chocolate. Rich, rounded flavours of black chocolate malts, dark caramel, liquorice and a backdrop of dried fruits. Roasted ending, chocolate malts, long-lived. Full bodied. Nice. (Tromsø 01.03.2022).
mjs (12070) reviewed Minos from Alpha Delta Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
(Can, 0.44 l - canned on 25.05.2021 - BB 25.05.2022, at CoolHead Taproom, 20220120) The beer poured black. Its head was medium sized and lightly brown. Aroma had burnt malts, dark chocolate, coffee and sweetness. Palate was full bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were dark chocolate, burnt malts, coffee with milk, ash and bitterness. Aftertaste had burnt malts, coffee with milk and bitterness. A pleasant burnt brew with coffee notes.
jimgreen (21728) reviewed Minos from Alpha Delta Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Tap at Sommar, Solihull. Poured a clear dark brown colour with a thin broken, light tan head. The aroma is roasty malt, light alcohol. The flavour is moderate sweet and liqourice bitter, with a rich, roasty, liqourice, light dry ashtray, light warm boozy alcohol bitter palate. Over medium bodied with soft carbonation.
CraftBeerNick (11220) reviewed Minos from Alpha Delta Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Tap at Mother Kelly’s, 3rd December 2021. Pours black almost. Aroma is charcoal, liquorice, cocoa and coffee. Taste is smooth, cocoa, dark chocolate and coffee. Reminiscent of a Kernel dark, good
jjsint (8701) reviewed Minos from Alpha Delta Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draught keg at the Real Ale Classroom, Stoneygate, Leicester. Black/brown and barely translucent with a thick khaki head which quickly dissipates. Scent of salted popcorn, treacle, maybe a bit of yeast extract. Similar taste with loads of gooey salted caramel, burnt marshmallow, Marmite sprinkled with Demerara sugar. Thick body, soft carbonation. Love these beers.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Minos from Alpha Delta Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Export style stout (like dry stout but much stronger yet not as strong as imperial stout, simply put), by this brewery in Newcastle, home of the northern brown ale, sampled at Billie’s Craft Beer Fest. Thickly moussy, yellowish beige, stable head on a pitch black beer. Aroma of coffee grounds, unsugared chocolate, dry leather, burnt walnuts, charcoal even, blackened toast, dried figs, pipe tobacco. Dryish onset, dried dark fruits again, actively tingling carbonation, light umami accent (biltong), rounded mouthfeel; smooth bitter-chocolatey, burnt-walnutty and eventually roasted coffee bitter maltiness, peppery hop bitter note in the end, mild but adequate, with dark-fruity, blood-like and minerally aspects lingering. No frills here, just an accessible, technically well-made, dangerously drinkable old school export stout – I love that.