DDF Caterpillar Cake
Vault City in Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.82
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The latest in our series takes inspiration from chocolate caterpillar cake, and begs the question; is anything safe from Scottish chippies …or breweries? We’ve pushed chocolate levels to the limit, combining chocolate malts and wheat with cacao husks, nibs, cholaca and cocoa powder for the ultimate indulgent imperial stout. Expect a rich, velvety mouthfeel and layers of vanilla so smooth it could squash supermarket squabbles with a single sip.
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8/10
Tried
on 08 Aug 2024
at 11:38
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft at the strait and narrow Lincoln. Black colour with no head. Rich sweet chocolate. More chocolate fudge and a chocolate finish. Hints of vanilla. Smooth rich and full body.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Aug 2024
at 13:03
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
330ml can. Pours jet black with a small head. Aroma is sweet, nutty milk chocolate, vanilla and alcohol. Taste has milk chocolate and vanilla throughout, with caramel on the finish.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Jul 2024
at 21:31
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can shared with Martin on the train back to Shrewsbury after a boozy afternoon catch-up in Wrexham. Pours a deep dark appearance, menacing dark brown head. Aroma is extremely cakey, very chocolatey, acting as an appropriate precursor to the first initial sip, which reveals an accurate representatino of the caterpillar cake, very cakey, full bodied, rich.. even seems to get the caterpillar icing spot on too. Bonkers.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Jul 2024
at 20:16
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Rated at Haze Wave Festival 2024. Sugary sweet and syrupy with some roastiness and intense chocolate sauce notes. Heavy.
Tried
on 26 Jul 2024
at 19:47
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can thanks bro my filthy brother. It pours darkest brown to black with a small khaki head. The aroma is liquidized chocolate cake, vanilla, gooey marshmallow, flumps, jammy wagon wheels, tunnocks teacakes, mocha, neopolitan ice cream and hot fudge sundae. The taste is slick, oily, dark roasted malt, super turbo chocolate, chocolate cake, vanilla cake frosting, toasted marshmallow, wagon wheels, tunnocks teacakes, fudgey, mocha, chocolate bourbon biscuits, chocolate french fancy, jammy, toffee and warming booze with a slick, sweet chocolate cake finish. Full body, fine carbonation and oily mouth feel. Like liquidized Colin the caterpillar right in my month. Filth. Too sweet for the likes of me, but I can't help but admire the audacity of this.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Jul 2024
at 16:54
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Keg at porty vault. Pours black, nose is chocolate, caramel, vanilla, toffee, taste is similar, sweet.
Tried
on 22 Jul 2024
at 09:16
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Black beer, lively dark brown head which fizzes away swiftly. Flsvour is a little boozy and a LOT chocolatey. Flsvour follows suit, being predominantly just a massive, rich chocolate blend across the range of bitterness and sweetness, with some vanilla through this andoads of malt and the balance coming in the form of some boozy warmth just taking the edge off that sweetness. A massive chocolate impy, a wonderful thing.
Tried
on 20 Jul 2024
at 23:26
8/10
keg at the wee vault ..dark black mmm thinest tan lacing ..massive vanilla chocolate roast malts nose ..dark chocolate ..vig biscuity vanilla chocolate roast malts
Tried
on 20 Jul 2024
at 19:59
8/10
Tried
on 20 Jul 2024
at 19:55