7.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

6/3/2024. Cask at The Dove Street Inn, Ipswich. Pours black with a small creamy/frothy light tan coloured head. Good looking beer. Nice roasted malty, chocolate, caramel aroma with a light coffee ashy edge. Moderate sweetness, medium bitterness. Decent body for its modest abv. Quite smooth, soft carbonation. Well done.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

On cask at Ryries. Appearance - black and opaque. Creamy beige head. Nose - toffee, chocolate, molasses, caramel, roast and smoke. Taste - molasses and smoke, toffee and caramel, some faint chocolate lurking . Palate- medium to full bodied, rich texture and roasty finish. Overall - lovely cask Stout.

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Pours black with a small lasting creamy beige head. The aroma is roasted malts and treacle with hints of chocolate and liquorice. A moderately sweet smooth roasted taste, roasted malts, chocolate and fudge with a smooth drying finish.

6.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

# 2840; 4/2022. Aroma of milk chocolate, slightly fruity. Opaque dark brown body, persistant lacing creamy off-white head. Smooth, milk chocolate, roasty. Good stout. Pint, hand-pulled, pub (Ritz), Lincoln (Lincolnshire, England).

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Cask at Bull & Stirrup, Chester. Pours almost black with a msall foamy beige head and good lacing. There’s fudge, toffee and treacle in the aroma here. In the mouth, it initially has bitter coffee ground and roast malts, but after a while dark fruits emerge. The general effect sways from bitter to sweet, then back to bitter again. Molasses and hints of chocolate as well, leading to a dry finish. This is excellent – packs a whole punch of flavour for it’s strength.

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask: Poured a black with a tan colored ring head. Aroma is roasted malts, coffee grounds. Taste is rugged roasted dark malts, light bitterness, coffee grounds, licorice.

6

Half a pint on cask at the Gate House. Medium creamy beige head. Clear almost black pour. Lovely smooth chocolate aftertaste.

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cask at the Castle, Inverness, 10/10/21. Black with a good sized khaki cap, good lacing ensues. Nose is chocolate, roast malts, toffee, dried fruits. Taste comprises cocoa powder, roasted bite, oatmeal biscuit, grains, nutty, light coffee notes. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close. Solid cask stout.

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Cask, Crown Inn, Coldingham. Tasted in 2003. Rating from notes. Creamy at first, than a roasty bitterness comes up that lingers on and on. Apple and a fair deal of fishy saltiness

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Cask from hop and barley. Black colour and a thick tan head. Malty aroma slightly roasted. Taste bittersweet. Slightly light body.