Donzoko Brewing Dark Skies

Dark Skies

 

Donzoko Brewing in Ouseburn, Tyne & Wear, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Collab with: Cloudwater Brew Co
  Porter - Baltic Special
Score
7.25
ABV: 6.8% IBU: - Ticks: 10
A dark ale, with cacao vanilla. A combination of complex flavours, and cold lagering, making it almost a dark porter/lager combination. A great collaboration between Cloudwater and Donzoko brewery.
 

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7.4
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Can shard at Ganz, courtesy of Zozo. Pours black with a lacing brown head. Nose is dark chocolate, coffee, light dried fruits, earthy notes and some vanilla. Taste is moderately sweet malty, a tad boozy with a hint of vanilla and chocolate and moderately bitter notes of dark chocolate and coffee. Closes with a chocolate and vanilla finish, has a thin body and average carbonation. With a bigger body it could've been even better.

Tried from Can on 17 Mar 2025 at 11:58


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

Can from the Low Cost Beer online shop. Pours black with a short-lived thin beige head. Aromas of prune, liquorice, chocolate and faint vanilla. Taste is chocolate and raisin, faint vanilla again. Sweet finish.

Tried from Can on 10 Sep 2022 at 16:35


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

500ml can, online from Trembling Madness. Pours black with a tan head. Aroma: dark malts, chocolate, dried fruits. Taste: light to moderate sweet & bitter, cacao, chocolate, light vanilla, raisins, dried fruits, hint of coffee on the finish. Medium body with fine carbonation. Nice

Tried from Can on 01 Sep 2021 at 20:53


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

500ml can. Black with a small brown head. Aroma of dark chocolate, mild coffee and dark fruits. Taste of sweet chocolate, mild vanilla, light coffee, some dark fruits, liquorice, bitter finish. Medium bodied, creamy smooth.

Tried from Can on 15 Jun 2021 at 21:22


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Panda thanks to Cloin: Poured a deep black with a light brown head. Aroma is maple syrup, molasses, rich malts, fruity. Taste is fruity, rich malts, chocolate, molasses.

Tried on 05 Jun 2021 at 18:56


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can muled across London for me from Ghost Whale, Putney. Aroma is rich - dark chocolate and liqourice, with vanilla hints. Dark and glossy. Creamy beige head. Medium bitter. Tangy sour edge. Develops creamy chocolate and vanilla sweetness. Dark chocolate and liqourice. Medium bodied. Oily. Flat carbonation. Long astringent finish. Warming tangy stuff.

Tried from Can on 18 Apr 2021 at 20:12


7

Tried on 16 Apr 2021 at 20:03


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can at home picked up from HOTM. A dark mahogany brown coloured pour with a lasting mid tan head. Aroma is dried berries, chestnut, some spices, raisin loaf, semi sweet nutty malts. red grape. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, nutty malts, dried raisin, grape, hazelnut, brown sugars. Palate is semi sweet, rounded, highish carbonation. Decent. maybe a little sweet.

Tried from Can on 09 Apr 2021 at 21:51


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Black beer, brown fizzy head which soon things out to a film. Rich smell of toasted malt and chocolate. Taste has vanilla, chocolate, malt, a little coffee. Fairly straightforward flavours but it's rich and smooth and really very tasty and the balance is really.good.

Tried on 03 Apr 2021 at 21:45


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can at home, from HOTM online, 03/04/21. Black with a good sized tan covering that retains well. Nose is dark malts, chocolate, dried fruits, raisins, light spice, fruit cake. Taste comprises chocolate, mellow roasted malts, vanilla, raisins, dried fruits, molasses, light spice, hint of liquorice. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Decent porter.

Tried from Can on 03 Apr 2021 at 16:57