5.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Bottle from Cotteridge Wines; dark coca cola brown pour with a big frothy tan head, aroma has dark fruits, taste has roast, hint of liquorice, coffee.

5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

330ml bottle @ Coracle, Ironbridge. Pours dark, thin cream-coloured topping. Aroma is a little odd, grainy, biscuity ovaltine. Taste runs with the ovaltine notes, soft chocolate, papery cardboard. Not awful, but well.. it is a low-alcohol stout.

6.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

27th Dec 2018. Large portion of the wife's 330ml bottle (she was driving) in The Coracle, Ironbridge, Shropshire. Black bodied, the fast fading head was beige and thin from the start. Malty little number, Ovaltine came to mind in the aroma, chocolate notes within the taste.

4.3

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

Bottle 500ml. @ [ chriso & Boudicca's pre- GBBF Shindig 2017 ] - Chris and Ruth's House, London. [ As Nirvana Kosmic Stout ].Clear dark brown colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, bread - dark bread, malt extract, brown sugar. Flavor is light to moderate sweet with a average duration, brown malt, bread, thin, maybe a bit like a thin kvas. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20170806] 4-2-4-3-7

4.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Bottle shared at Chriso's Pre-GBBF Shindig. 06/08/2017. Many thanks! Aclear pale nut brown coloured pour with a scummy off white head. Aroma is spicy rye bread, nutty malts, rye, kvas. Flavour is composed of thin nutty malts, praline, mineral, chalk, cola. Palate is thin sugary, moderate carbonation. Meh.

5.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle at home in Hackney - picked up at the Drinkers' Paradise. Pours deep brown with a foamy, light khaki head. The aroma holds blackberries, raisins, burnt toast, burnt fruitcake, soft roast. Light-medium sweet flavour with more dried, old berries, more blackberry, burnt crackers, bitter ash, baking cocoa, raisins. Light in body with average carbonation. Fairly dry in the finish, with more raisins, burnt toast, dry cocoa and bitter ash. A little weird, but in its way interesting in a good way.

4.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5

Bottle at Seven Seasons, Hoxton, London. Poured almost black with a decent sized off-white to beige head. Looks the part. Aroma of malt, liquorice, light chocolate, bread, toasting and yeast extract. Medium sweetness, light roasted bitterness. Light body, slight oily texture, average carbonation. Kind of ok, bit better than average for a low alcohol beer, but wouldn't make me give up the alcohol.

4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Bottle at home. It pours darkest brown with a small beige head. The aroma is very malty, malt loaf, malt extract, supermalt, cocoa and earthy roast. The taste is earthy roast, quite watery, wood bark, liquorice, umami, malt extract, coffee grounds, cardboard and charred wood with an earthy and spicy finish. Light body and moderate, fizzy carbonation. Tastes like a malt beverage like supermalt or something. The lack of alcohol is glaringly obvious.

Really lightly roasted but a bit confused on the spices. Remove the spices and it wld be better.

4.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Bottle shared at Chris & Ruth’s pre-GBBF Shindig 2017 - Part 2. A dark brown beer with a small off-white head. Aroma of sweet bread, dark malt, some coffee. Taste of sweet chocolate, sugar, sweet bread, corn.