9 Lives Brewing Dark

Dark

 

9 Lives Brewing in Ystradgynlais, Powys, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

  Mild - Dark Regular
Score
6.20
ABV: 4.0% IBU: - Ticks: 6
A dark ruby ale with an inviting aroma of roast malt and fruit. A gentle bitterness giving a complex, satisfying and lasting finish.
 

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

[September 2023] Clear dark brown with a bubbly off-white head. Soft, sweet caramel malt on the nose, light bodied, quite thin really, with sweet malt predominating

Tried on 14 Feb 2024 at 15:34


4.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Cask @ Shrewsbury Real Ale Festival 2023. Pours a dark ruby, off-white, nay, beige head. Light caramel malt aroma, continues to taste, very mild malt, gentle roast.. expected a little more malt layers.

Tried from Cask on 30 Sep 2023 at 18:23


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

Shared third of a pint at the 31st Shrewsbury Beer Festival in St Mary's Church on 28th September 2023. Deep red body, beige topping. Malty little number with a fruity edge, leaning towards caramel sweet.

Tried on 29 Sep 2023 at 08:30


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Tried at the Nottingham Beer Festival 2017. Dark brown colour with an light tan head. Aroma dried fruit and caramel. Taste light fruity sweet. Medium body.

Tried from Cask on 13 Oct 2017 at 23:00


5.4
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Cask (gravity) @ NBF 2017 [ The 42th. Nottingham Beer Festival (The 10th Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival) ], Nottingham Castle, Friar Lane, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 6EB. [ As 9 Lives Dark ]. Clear dark red brown colour with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, dark malt, toffee, butterscotch. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average to long duration, butterscotch, toffee, dark malt, sweet malt, roasted. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20171011] 5-3-6-3-11

Tried from Cask on 11 Oct 2017 at 11:55


6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask-conditioned, on gravity, at the Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival, Cardiff 21/9/2017. Dark brown, with a thin, off-white, head. A sweetish beer, with some dark fruit, toasty malts and brown sugar, before a gentle finish. Ok.

Tried from Cask on 25 Sep 2017 at 03:45