The Garden Brewery Tama

Tama

 

The Garden Brewery in Zagreb, City of Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷

  Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular
Score
7.43
ABV: 8.1% IBU: 40 Ticks: 63
Imperial Salted Caramel & Chocolate Biscuit Stout.

Rich, sweet and indulgent on a milk stout biscuit base.

Hops: Columbus
Malts: Best Ale, Cara, Dark Crystal, DRC, Munich, Chocolate, Black, Rolled Oats, Golden Naked Oats.
Yeast: AY4
Adjuncts: Lactose, Cacao, Biscuit Flavour, Sea Salt
SRM: 60
23.2°

Tasting notes:
Deep layers of rich caramel, chocolate, and biscuit aromas combine with a full bodied salted imperial milk stout.
 

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7.5
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Can from Asda, High Wycombe. Black with a hint of mahogany; there's no head. A little bit viscous on pouring. Odd smell; reminded me of shellfish, oysters, something like that. The harbour theme continues into the taste, with salt to the fore. The advertised caramel and chocolate are definitely there; more in the background than I expected, but enough to prevent a nice balance and contrast to the savoury tones of the brew. Umami flavours come through in the finish; a bit of Bovril maybe? A light roasty bitterness too. After the seafood shock of the aroma, this became very enjoyable. Not the sugar bomb I expected, but complex and yet very drinkable. Impressive for a supermarket brew.

Tried from Can from Asda Supermarket (Various locations) on 25 Feb 2026 at 12:42


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

Can. Black color, coffee foam. Aroma: sweet, caramel and creamy toffee, chocolate. Taste: sweet, caramel, milk chocolate, toffee, well, good for dessert.

Tried from Can on 22 Feb 2026 at 19:19


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

440ml can from Asda - Jet black body with a lacing tan head. Oily texture, great sweet caramel hit, savoury finish afterwards. Notes of roasted nuts, liquorice, but only as a background to the creamy toffee character.

Tried from Can from Asda Supermarket (Various locations) on 09 Jan 2026 at 21:05


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8

Tama od The Garden Brewery je bogat i raskošan imperial stout gotovo crne boje, s aromama tamne čokolade, karamele i prženog slada koje se elegantno spajaju u gust, kremast gutljaj. Okus podsjeća na desert u čaši — slatkast, topao i zaokružen — s dugim, čokoladnim završetkom koji ostavlja dojam pravog „craft“ užitka.

Tried on 27 Nov 2025 at 22:12


8

So smooth. Not overly sweet. Under the radar.

Tried from Can on 29 Oct 2025 at 21:57


7.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

0,5 l can. Pours almost black with a finger of light brown, quickly dissipating head. Aroma of medium roasted coffee, caramel, dark chocolate. Taste is heavy sweet and medium bitter. Flavor generally follows aroma, there's a hint of saltiness. Alcohol is well hidden, although ABV is a bit low for imperial. Just enough bitterness to offset heavy sweetness. Body is full, texture oily, carbonation gentle. Very decent. Hardly imperial though.

Tried from Can on 28 Sep 2025 at 12:20


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

440ml can as part of an ASDA delivery. Drunk at home. Dark brown and opaque with ring of brown head. Vanilla, cheap salted caramel, coffee aroma. Delicious sweet (but not too sweet) taste, more salted caramel, fudge, coffee, some bitterness closing on the long finish. Oily body with little carbonation. Not the most exciting impy but certainly more than competent.

Tried from Can on 09 Sep 2025 at 18:17


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

Dark brown, opaque. Dark brown, dense head, but dissipating rather quickly. Aroma of chocolate cake with a touch of chocolate liqueur. Delicate flavour, dominated by cocoa and coffee. Salt reveals itself later on the palate and in the finish. The biscuit aroma is faint. Pleasant, not too heavy, relaxing.

Tried from Can from Asda Supermarket (Various locations) on 04 Sep 2025 at 18:12


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

440ml can. Pours jet black with a large head. Aroma is salted caramel, roast, coffee and cough syrup. Taste has salted caramel and biscuits to start, with sweet caramel and roast on the finish.

Tried from Can from Asda Supermarket (Various locations) on 31 Jul 2025 at 20:12


8.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9

Dark brown colour, moderate sized dense ecru-ish head; aroma and taste of dark chocolate, coffee, toffee and some ash notes; really good one; thanks so much for sharing, Kapusil!

Tried from Can on 28 Jul 2025 at 21:36

gave a cheers!