Black Boar
The White Hag in Ballymote, Sligo, Ireland 🇮🇪
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.49
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A fierce and powerful creature was the Black Boar. This huge beast played a massive role in shaping ancient Irish history. Famously the Black Boar killed, and was killed by Diarmuid the warrior while he answered the challenge of his archrival Fionn Mac Cumhail in the mountain of Ben Bulben in County Sligo. The Black Boar has come to represent resilience. Fitting then that this black, silky Imperial Stout should carry the name of one of ancient Ireland’s most notorious icons.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
330ml. can. @home, 09/12/2021 [#4.618 Global - #130 Ireland - #10 White Hag] Pitch viscous black pur with a diminishing tan head. Aroma: Roasted malts, dark chocolate and ashes. Taste: raisins, smoked malts and wood. Long chewy finish. Next one please!
Tried
from Can
on 10 Dec 2021
at 10:35
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
This was part of the White Hag BoxTravaganza box sent from Ireland by Steve Matthews cheers mate 👍. Can, consumed at a beer tasting, Thursday 9th September 2021 with Kykao brewery and friends. Pours black with a tan head. Really roasty, a lovely tang, good challenging bitter roastiness, quite good to try this no nonsense Impy after others that are a little more lets say extravagant. This is a great stout.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Sep 2021
at 04:38
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Draught Deep tan-cream-greige head over pitch black beer. Nutty, roast, and rather sweet smelling; impression of sweet booze. Chocolate sweets, Chocotoff. Drier, but even nuttier, again impression of booze (rum, liqueur,...), sweet - with the chocolate even Bailey's-like. Roast, wry, walnut on one hand, and rum-nut-raisinscake on the other; instead of blending pulling in different directions. Very well-bodied, chewy. Alcoholheat. Lots of liquorice/jap in the aftertaste. I'm not impressed.
Tried
from Draft
at
Café Pardaf
on 26 Jun 2021
at 11:38
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
330ml can via Beer52: Poured into a Gordon badged thistle shaped glass at home on 28th Mar 2021. Smooth tanned foam on top of a very dark brew, looked interesting and wholesome! Malty and Beefy (rather than Wild Boar or 'Porky') in both the nose and taste, some coffee and chocolate esters and flavours creep in, but this is meaty and not for any veggie types at all; because of that I liked it!
Tried
from Can
on 28 Mar 2021
at 22:27
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Beer 52 CyberFest 5. Tight tan head on a still black body. Boozy, oat & Christmas cake aroma. Full-bodied, smooth & cloying. Boozy, Christmas cake, raisin, berry & malt tastes.
Tried
on 20 Mar 2021
at 15:46
7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
330ml can from Monster and Beer, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Poured a dark brown colour with a mostly lasting frothy tan head. The aroma is roasty malt, liqourice and boozy alcohol. The flavour is moderate sweet, with a rich, roasty, liqourice, molasses, chocolate, dry spicy, warm alcohol bitter palate. Full bodied with soft carbonation. Surprisingly awesome!
Tried
from Can
at
Monster and Beer
on 15 Feb 2021
at 13:32
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
33cl can from hopt.it. Pours black, with very limited brown foam, very fine. Aroma is rich, with chocolate, molasses, caramel, vanilla. Body is dense, like carbonation. Nice stickiness. Taste is medium-high sweet, with good roasty bitterness. Final is long, sweet and chocolate.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Jan 2021
at 21:03
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Creamy lightbrown good mostly lasting head. Black colour. Heavy malty and moderate hoppy aroma. Heavy bitter flavor. Strong molase notes. Moderate bitter average finish. Creamy palate,
Tried
on 07 Jan 2021
at 15:16
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
330ml can at home. Can’t believe I haven’t rate this yet. Pours inky oily black with a thin brown head. Nose is molasses, roasted coffee, dark chocolate. Smooth flavour of dark chocolate, vanilla, dark fruit. Smooth oily finish.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Dec 2020
at 20:58
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Can, 10.2%. The aroma is dusty, vinous. Black colour. Dark brown colour. The flavour is sweet and spicy, has a good oily mouthfeel. Very sweet, but well balanced by the alcohol.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Sep 2020
at 16:35