St. Austell Brewery Mena Dhu

Mena Dhu

 

St. Austell Brewery in St. Austell, Cornwall, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Stout - Smoked Regular
Score
6.84
ABV: 4.5% IBU: - Ticks: 81
Brewed using a blend of six different malts traditional and pale malts for richness and depth chocolate and smoked malts for a distinctive flavour malted oats and roasted barley malt to enhance the finish. Based on an original Cornish recipe Mena Dhu means black hill named after the farm that was owned by Walter Hicks, the founder of St Austell Brewery a new generation stout that combines the best of the old with added complexity and refreshment.
 

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6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle from BiervanEijk, Steenwijk. Aroma is roasted malt with tobacco, ash, touch of dark chocolate. Flavour is moderate sweet and mild to medium bitter. Light body. Good basic light Stout, roasty, ashy.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Jan 2025 at 13:30


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle. Pours blacks with small beige head. Aroma of coffee, liquorice and chocolate. Taste of roasted malt, liquorice, hint of blackcurrant and coffee. Decent body. Good.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Jan 2025 at 03:09


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Tried on 31 Dec 2024 at 02:14


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Tap at Taplokaal Gist, black beer, small head. Aroma is roast, coffee, liquorice, malt. Taste is roasted, coffee, liquorice, sweet, bit watery, light bitter aftertaste. Nice

Tried from Draft on 26 Oct 2024 at 13:50


7.6

Absolutely top notch in tbis style and abv. Just wonderfully done balanced low abv beer. Gollem amstelstraat

Tried on 28 Sep 2024 at 20:39


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Flasche 0,5l: Schwarz, deutliche Trübung, kräftiger stabiler beiger mittelporiger Schaum; sehr würzige + kräftig malzige Nase, eher trocken, dezente trockene Hopfennoten, Röstmalz, dunkles Karamell, Vanille, Röstaromen, leicht nussig, Haselnussschalen, kräftig gemahlener Kaffee, kräftige malzig-würzige Bitterkeit; kräftig würziger + trockener Körper, kräftige Röstaromen, Röstmalz, Getreide, dunkles Karamell, Vanille, cremig, moderate Kohlensäure, eher trockene Hopfennoten, Haselnussschalen, Kaffee; trocken-würziger Nachgang

Tried on 08 Jul 2024 at 07:58


7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Tap at Murphy's Law. Black with thick creamy light brown head. Roasted malts, licorice, raisins, lots of coffee, blackberries. Almost medium sweet, light bitter and very light sour. Almost medium bodied. Very tasty stout.

Tried from Draft on 26 May 2024 at 15:30


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

(Draught at In De Wildeman, Amsterdam, 16 Feb 2024) Black colour with frothy, beige head. Malty, roasted nose with notes of coffee, dark chocolate, liquorice and black bread. Malty, roasted taste with coffee, dark chocolate, liquorice, black rye bread and a balanced roasty bitterness. Medium body, quite dry. Well made and highly drinkable stout. Very nice.

Tried on 27 Apr 2024 at 15:28


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

500ml bottle. Pours very dark brown with a medium head. Aroma is coffee and yeasty roast. Taste has yeasty roast and cola. Touch of chocolate.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Feb 2024 at 23:01


7

Tried from Bottle on 02 Jan 2024 at 20:45