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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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
330 oz can T Mother Kelly’s Vauxhall. Pours a reddish black with moderate tan head. Aromas of creamy chocolate, sweet vanilla and soft roasted malts. Flavors of rich chocolate cake including the icing. Oily roasted malts as a nod to beer. A great sweet desert beer.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Mar 2020
at 20:44
7/10
Ale smiesznie, kakao z tymi drewnianymi nalecialosciami dalo cos w stylu tonki... a wiec: kakao, tonka, troche wanilii, troche kawy, slodkie, dosc cieliste, kapke popiolowosci zwlaszcza w posmakach. Sumarycznie bdb+
Tried
from Can
at
Powiśle
on 28 Jan 2020
at 09:41
8/10
Die geur is werkelijk weergaloos. Smaakt ook best niet vies.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Jan 2020
at 21:38
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can at home picked up from Brewdog Shoreditch. An oily dark black coloured pour with a lasting loose medium tan head. Aroma is spicy fruit cake, jamaica cake, some tangy fruit, oily, cakey malts, cocoa. Some boozey cake on the nose as well. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, bitter cakey malts, burnt cake, mellow spices, Jamaica cake. Lingering bitter roast. Palate is medium full, oily, rich, moderate carbonation
Tried
from Can
on 31 Dec 2019
at 20:37
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Keg @ Beer Heroes, Chester. Pours dark, pretty much black, small tan head. Aroma has good cakey chocolate, hefty dark malt. Taste continues with sumptuously rich chocolate character, soft roast, light coffee hints, but really this is all about the chocolate. Excellent winters day sipper.
Tried
on 17 Dec 2019
at 16:46
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Keg at salthorse. Pours black, nose is cacao, liquorice, wood, creosote, chocolate, taste is similar, a little solvent.
Tried
on 06 Dec 2019
at 10:42
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. A- Oak, cocoa. A- Black color, black liquid, brown head. T- Medium sweetness, chocolate, woodsy. P- Full body, slightly thin texture, average carbonation, balanced finish. O- A tad underwhelming. Lots of oak. The cypress wood adds a unique touch but it's too strong. Sweet chocolate and woodsy covers it all. I think the BA version would be better. Good beer but not as refined as I wanted it to be.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2019
at 03:17
8/10
Keg at salty... Dark black... Thin tan lacing....dark dry bitter cherry chocolates roast malts nose.. Dark rich chocolate cherry roast.. Light coconut.. Soft spice
Tried
on 02 Dec 2019
at 19:53
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Keg at MK VHX, 28/11/19. Pitch black with a well moderate tan cap that dissipates to a swirl. Nose is sweet malts, brown sugar melt, cacao, faint coffee, dark fruit shreds. Taste comprises chocolate, candied fruit peel, sweet malts, dried fruit, light spruce, booze tunes, figs, molasses, cinnamon. Medium plus bodied, fine carbonation, drying close with a rising boost. Solid.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Nov 2019
at 08:37