Midnight Kew
Kew Brewery in Kew, Greater London, England 🏴
Stout - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.79
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Reaching our 100th full-scale brew felt like cause for celebration, and having never before made a strong stout, this seemed like the perfect time. Packed with rich, dark malts, creamy oats, and a little treacle and local honey, Midnight Kew is a dark boozy delight that's full of liquorice, treacle toffee and chocolate flavours.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask gravity at the Pig's ear beer festival 05/12/2017. An opaque black oily pour with lasting loose tan head. Aroma is nutty twiggy malts, earthy roast, some dried fruit. Flavour is composed of under attenuated sweet wort, earthy roastm cakey malts, bread and liquorice. Palate is oily, flabby, medium sweet, lowish carboantion.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Jan 2019
at 22:12
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask handpull at Cask Craft Pimlico. Black beer lasting tan head. Chocolate coffee aroma. Some juiciness in the mouth. Some blackcurrant fruit. Some oat fullness in the body. Light finish. Ok.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Feb 2018
at 14:33
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at Pig's Ear 2017. It pours near black with a bubbly beige head. The aroma is earthy, rich roasted malt, coffee grounds, cocoa, wood, dull smoke and some booze. The taste is dry, charred wood, umami, peppery spice, toasty, tar, chewy malt, cocoa, warming alcohol and burnt cake. Medium+ body, fine carbonation and oily mouth - feel. Decent aspects to it for sure, but it comes across a bit charred and chewy.
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Jan 2018
at 12:24
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at The 34th Pig’s Ear & Cider Festival, Hackney, London. A black coloured pour with a medium beige head on top. Roasty, malty, dark fruit aroma. Tastes pretty much the same, roasty, malty, dark fruit, slight chocolate, Decent Imperial stout, probably the best that I've had from Kew Brewery.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Dec 2017
at 05:26
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask at Pig's Ear '17,day one, 05/12/17. Black with a decent tan covering. Nose is roast malts, charr, treacle toffee, dark fruit rinds, chocolate. Taste comprises mellow roast, chocolate cake, Hobnob biscuit, toffee, fruit slice, raisins. Medium plus body, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Adequate sipper but lacks depth and complexity.
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Dec 2017
at 02:27
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask (gravity) @ 34th Pig's Ear Beer and Cider Festival 2017, at The Round Chapel in Hackney, London, England.
[ As Kew Midnight Kew ].
ABV: 7.5%. Clear dark brown colour with a small to average, frothy - fizzy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, dark malt, light oat. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and light moderate bitter with a long duration, roasted, dark malt, sweet malt, wood - woody. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20171206]
7-3-7-3-15
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Dec 2017
at 07:56
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at Pigs Ear 2017 - Hackney. Pours black-brown with a foamy, off-white head. The nose holds roasted malts, brown bread, mellow chocolate. Light to medium sweet flavour with some oily chocolate, earth, light alcohol. Medium bodied, oily, with fine carbonation. Lightly warming finish, with drying ashy roast, bittersweet cocoa. Nice beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Dec 2017
at 06:44
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
5th December 2017
Pigs Ear. Cask. Almost clear deep brown beer, small bubbly pale tan head. Smooth palate, semi dry, good fine carbonation. Thin but well flavoured dark malts. Spicy dark chocolate. Spicy dark fruits, almost whisky barrel like. Spicy dry finish. Robust and flavoursome.
Pigs Ear. Cask. Almost clear deep brown beer, small bubbly pale tan head. Smooth palate, semi dry, good fine carbonation. Thin but well flavoured dark malts. Spicy dark chocolate. Spicy dark fruits, almost whisky barrel like. Spicy dry finish. Robust and flavoursome.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Dec 2017
at 01:57