Exam Room Tears
Stu Brew in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, England 🏴
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured Regular|
Score
7.20
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Tyne CAMRA'S "Battle of the Beers" runner up and people's 'Canniest Bevvy' 2019. Exam Room Tears is a thick and sumptuous stout flavoured with maple syrup and pecans.
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the Crystal Palace, Glasgow. Pours clear dark brown with a thin tan head. Aromas of male syrup and cocoa. Taste is sweet chocolate, faint roast on the finish.
Tried
on 24 Mar 2026
at 12:36
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
14/3/2026. Cask at The Windmill, Stansted Airport. Pours very well. Aroma is chocolate cake, maple, caramel, pecan, touch of coffee and liquorice. Mellow sweetness with some roasted bitterness. Nicely balanced. Good body, velvety smooth, soft carbonation. A really good pint and definitely beer of the festival (of the 25 tried).
Tried
from Cask
at
Windmill (JDW)
on 14 Mar 2026
at 09:36
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 8
Third of a pint on cask at the gate house jdw.
Medium creamy beige head. Clear almost black pour. Some chocolate and treacle
Medium creamy beige head. Clear almost black pour. Some chocolate and treacle
Tried
from Cask
at
The Gate House (JDW)
on 10 Mar 2026
at 17:54
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
[Cask at the Hope Tap (JDW), Reading.] A glossy peat brown coloured pour with a thick cream head; maple syrup aroma; maple syrup taste to start then some dry deeply roasted malts and a creamy texture; with some toasted pecans coming through at the finish.
Tried
from Cask
at
Hope Tap
on 09 Mar 2026
at 12:08
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
Wetherspoon Spring Beer Festival 2026, Beer#18. Black brew, with its maple syrup inclusions most evident in aroma and taste, only mildly sweet tasting, with the maple developing again in aftertaste.
Tried
from Cask
at
Waterhouse
on 07 Mar 2026
at 20:38
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at Shrewsbury Hotel, Shrewsbury. Pours a very dark reddish-brown with a small scummy tan head and good lacing. There’s roasted malts and chocolate in the aroma – plus a hint of lactose. In the mouth it starts off sweet with a creamy texture and flavours of chocolate, roasted malts, nuts and maple. Later it becomes slightly bitter and spicy with hints of honey. Finish is slightly dry. This is quite nice – rewards patient sipping.
Tried
from Cask
at
Shrewsbury Hotel
on 05 Mar 2026
at 12:20
Tried
from Cask
at
Imperial (JDW)
on 04 Mar 2026
at 00:00
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Cask at the St Albans beer festival 2025. A clear nut brown coloured pour with a loose light tan head. Aroma is semi sweet, vanilla, Hazel nut, cocoa. Flavour is composed of semi sweet nutty hazelnut, praline, earthy roast, jammy fruits. Palate is semi sweet, oily, light tang, vanilla. Mellow carbonation. Pretty good.
Tried
on 27 Sep 2025
at 14:38
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (gravity) @ #NRHBCF 2019 [ The 44th. Nottingham CAMRA Beer and Cider Festival (The 12th Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival) ], 🇬🇧 Motorpoint Arena Nottingham, Bolero Square, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 1LA.
[ As Stu Brew Exam Room Tears ].
ABV: 5.0%. Clear dark brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, beige head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, maple, sweet mal, peacan touch. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a long duration, sweet malt, dark malt, sugary, maple, dark malt - chocolate, peacan touch. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20191009]
7-3-6-3-14
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Nov 2023
at 16:44
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Jet black and brown with a rich light brown head. Toast and some chocolate. Chocolate and toast. No maple.
Tried
from Can
from
CentrAle Newcastle
on 23 Mar 2022
at 20:33