7

Bitter coffee and chocolate with a nice smooth finish. Goes down easy.

6.5

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

Cask at the Derby Tap, Derby bimble, 11/02/22. Black with a good sized lasting tan head. Nose is mellow roast, charr, raisins, cocoa pwder. Taste comprises dark malts, roasted bite, toffee, chocolate, brown bread, dried fruit rinds. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close. Not bad.

8

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

Cask: Poured a black with a tan head. Aroma is chocolate, roasted malts, nutty. Taste is roasted malts, chocolate, caramel, toffee.

6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask at Derby Tap. Pours a solid dark brown with minimal cream head. Roast malts and vanilla in the nose. Starts off sweet and fruity in the mouth, but liquorice then comes through and dominates. Some hints of chocolate, cocoa and malts as well. Finish is mainly liquorice. Quite nice.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

Cask at the Kings Arms Norwich. A dark mahogany brown coloured pour with a lasting loose mid tan head. Aroma is big earrhy roast, charcoal, burnt sugars, black apple. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, rich rounded, chocolate roast, pine licks, burnt grass. Robust. Palate is rounded, light tang, excellent cask condition, hint of vanilla.

6.9

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

Handpull cask at the Rutland & Derby, Leicester. Dark brown, translucent, with a tan creamy head. Lots of liquorice, charcoal, a touch of blackberry in the nose. Sweet taste with a slight medicinal bitterness. Medium to long finish with lots more liquorice in the aftertaste. Heavy body with soft carbonation. Not a bad brew.

6.5

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

Cask (gravity) @ NBF 2015 [ The 40th. Nottingham Beer Festival (The 8th Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival) ], Nottingham Castle, Friar Lane, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 6EB. [ As Derby Dashingly Dark ].Clear medium amber - orange brown color with a average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, sweet malt, sweet coffee. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration, dark malt, sweet malt, sweet coffee - dark chocolate. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20151007] 6-3-7-3-13

6.4

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

Half pint, keg at Derby Tap. A small beige head to a deep black-ruby coloured body. Dark malty aroma, nicely roasted. taste of dark dough, liquorice and bitter coffee grounds to the finish. Smooth on the palate. Pleasant (Derby 18.02.2016).

5.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Fra fat på Derby Tap 18 Feb 16. Ultramørk rubinrød. Skum langs glasset. Karamellaroma. Smaken lett syrlig karamell. Søt syrlig avslutning.

6.8

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

Gravity cask at Nottingham festival with fonefan, Charlotte, Boudicca & chriso. Clear deep maroon color. Coffee grounds aroma. Taste has espresso and cocoa. Nice.