Death By Caribbean Chocolate Cake
Siren Craft Brew in Finchampstead, Berkshire, England 🏴
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.91
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Death by Chocolate Cake. What would happen if we took one of the nation’s best loved, super-indulgent desserts for inspiration, and applied it to our most indulgent beer? Even more cacao nibs, even more Cypress wood, even more depth. It’s doubled down and ramped up to imperial strength. The Amburana is still critical. Its spicy, fragrant spirals impart all kinds of different flavours, not dissimilar to the complexity of tonka beans. It's remarkable how we all seem to pick up something different from them.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Aroma: cinnamon and sweet malt with chocolate. Flavour: Sweet roasted malt with caramel, cinnamon and notes of coffee. Aftertaste is cinnamon and sweet. Colour: Black with a fading head. From: Can @ Væskebalancen Århus.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Feb 2022
at 16:04
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can sample at a tasting at Yoav's place. 2021 version. Opaque black, tan foam. Wood, dark chocolate, spice, sweet and spicy.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Feb 2022
at 21:12
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
330ml can - Pours black with an average sized mostly lasting tan head. The aroma is chocolatey, dark chocolate, cacao nibs, sweet roasted malts and woody spice notes. A smooth, chocolate and sweet roasted taste. Sweet roasted malts, dark chocolate, cacao nibs, vanilla and woody spice flavours with a warming bitter chocolate finish.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Feb 2022
at 21:33
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 8
10.2 abv. Black. Aroma is dark chocolate cinnamon syrup cocoa and a heavy tree like mediterannean thing (probably the cypress) some quinoa as well. Taste is intense chocolate with wood and quinoa, quite sweet syrupy with a little cocoa at the back. Finish of much cinnamon and chocolate syrup. Incredibly dense and amazing. Although the aroma is a bit weird
Tried
on 06 Jan 2022
at 00:21
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can from Gedeelde Vreugde. Cloudy black, small, foamy, beige head. Aroma of brownie, fondant sauce, dark fudge, dried fig, ripe plum, wood, sweet espresso, vanilla, vague pineapple. Taste has sweet fig & plum in a thick chocolatey malt body with caramel and soft bitter coffee, some creamy vanilla. Peppery hoppy finish, lingering fondant, woody vanilla and burnt wood, cream, warming brandy-like alcohol. Full body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Cacao and lactose are very much present but the wood lends delicate balance to this 'Pastry'.
Tried
on 31 Dec 2021
at 13:50
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Keg at cloisters. Pours black, nose is chocolate cake, roasted, some vanilla, taste is sweet toffee, caramel, liquorice, chocolate, nutty, some cinnamon, reminiscent of tonka --- Beer merged from original tick of Death By Caribbean Chocolate Cake 2021 on 02 Dec 2021 at 12:00 - Score: 8
Tried
on 02 Dec 2021
at 12:01
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Keg at The Star & Garter, Bromley. Black pour with a tan head. Nose is without doubt chocolate cake with a touch of toffee, caramel, ligh coffee notes. Taste is chocolate cake, sweet tobacco, cocoa, caramel. Long sweet alcohol warming finish. Darned tasty!
Tried
on 30 Nov 2021
at 20:00
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Pours black, red shine, see trough. No real head. Scent is roasty, some cinnamon. hidden chocolate. Taste is medium intense, cinnamon, sharp expression by the cinnamon-like features of the Amburana. Not that coffee forward. OK.
Tried
on 29 Nov 2021
at 12:12
8/10
Tried
on 20 Nov 2021
at 14:57
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle share at Hopdog München, Tuesday 9th November 2021 with Ratebeer group and Will from work. Pours black with a filmy beige head. Lots of tonka bean, coffee, vanilla, chocolate, in fact lots of chocolate, super smooth, this is literally puréed caribbean chocolate cake with a black forest gateaux twist and coconut, it's wonderful stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Nov 2021
at 18:33