8

cask at the bow bar ..dark black ..thin floral ..soft sweet floral nose ..lot less roast than expected ..soft woody chocolate roast malts ..juicy chocolate roast ..Light pine ..soft woody malts

7.4

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

Cask at the Cardinals Hat, Lincoln. Off black colour with a tan head. Aroma and taste are chocolate and some fruity pine. light bitter to slight sweet. Medium body

7

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

Cask at The Ealing Beer Festival 2024, Ealing, London. A dark brown coloured pour with a medium beige head on top. Roasty, malty, bitter chocolate, pine taste and aroma. Pretty good but rather bitter.

7.9

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

Cask @ Salopian, the pub. Pours dark, beige head. Aroma of dark treacle, pine. Flavour profile brings nice dark malt shades with amn appealing dark toffee sweetness and pleasant sappy hoppy bite. Good stuff.

6.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9.5

Cask and finished the solo beer festival as I have to work tomorrow. Which is a bit of a shame.... Anyway, good pour and very well balanced with burnt malt and bitter hops. I do like a black IPA and I'm always sad that fad disappeared a number of years back. Maybe it's coming back? I can only hope. But is this a black IPA? I keep getting flashbacks to Old Peculiar..... I've got to go and find some food. Probably end up at the local Spoons. There may be updates.....

7.8

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

Cask at two trees watford. An opaque black brown coloured pour with a lasting khaki head. Aroma is semi sweet, cocoa, piney grassy hop,. Palate is semi sweet, good cask condition. Flavour is composed of big chocolate malts, cocoa, piney sap, toasted malts, assertive hop bitterness. Big and bold and punchy. Oily finish.

7

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

Deep dark brown with a frothy tan head and a fruity nose. Sweet up front with some roasted notes but mostly it’s the hoppy bitterness that hits you

7.5

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

Cask at Alexandra, Derby – and suitably celebrated as my 100th Thornbridge beer. Pours a very dark reddish-brown with minimal off-white head. There’s a fruity aroma with roasted malts to the fore. In the mouth it is quite sweet but with some underlying bitterness with roasted malts and hints of lactose. Later a good helping of coffee comes through as well plus traces of chocolate and vanilla. A little smokiness in the finish. This is rather nice – but not really anything like Jaipur.