Slow Roast
Stardust Brewery in White Waltham, Berkshire, England 🏴
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Winter|
Score
6.80
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A special bitter using crystal and chocolate malt. The hop aroma is tuned to compliment the chocolate and roast sweetness from the malt. A perfect beer for that warm, winter's feel.
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7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Cask at CBC, Clerkenwell on 4th March 2018. Copper with thin off-white foam and no lacing. Intense malt aroma. Finely sweet, roasty, nutty malt in mouth, with touch of smoke, and a bitter roasty finish. Medium bodied with a zingy mouthfeel.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Apr 2018
at 21:31
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at the CP&K, 15/01/18. Rich mahogany brown with a decent lasting beige head. Nose is dried fruits, brown bread, light spice, pouch tobacco, biscuit. Taste comprises cocoa powder, airy malts, chocolate biscuit, raisins, fruit cake. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying close. Solid flavoursome ESB .... the chocolate is well integrated and not a sweet mess as is sometimes the case.
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Jan 2018
at 10:08
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Handpull cask at CASK Pub & Kitchen, Pimlico. Light brown with a bit of a reddish hue and a small bit of natural carbonation producing a thin sandalwood head. Woody aroma with a touch of yeasty treacle. Taste sweet at first but it's a touch bitter/sour toward the end. Finish is much drier, long and astringent with chocolate and horehound notes. Medium body. I think I like it...
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Jan 2018
at 07:19
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask at the New Leathern Bottle, Warfield. A chestnut colour with a tight cream head; aroma of sour fruit; starts with a sour purple fruit taste, then some rich chocolate emerges; before a smooth bittersweet fruity chocolate finish. Interesting.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Nov 2017
at 11:38
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Ask at END28. Malty gravy aroma. Chestnut. Thin white head. Medium bitter spicy. Gravy, again.Light-thin bodied. Slick. Average carbonation. Abrupt finish. Not bad as bitters go and I like my gravy.
Tried
on 03 Nov 2017
at 14:05
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask-conditioned, on gravity, at Maidenhead Beer Festival 20/10/2017. Deep amber in colour, with a thin, off-white, head. Leafy hops, sharp red berry fruits,a touch of chocolate and some bready malts, leading to a moderately bitter finish. Good.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Oct 2017
at 07:46