Can. Nose is coffee, dark malt, dusty. Taste is tobacco, ash, dark malt, hint of coffee, and a fruity note. A lasting ashy finish. A slick light body.

Nice

Collab between a traditional (19th century) and a postmodern ‘craft’ (21st century) English brewery: something interesting must come out of that. Can from a Marks & Spencer supermarket in Aberdeen. Pale yellowish beige, regular, dense and creamy, membrane-lacing head on a black robe with faint burgundy glow. Aroma of burnt blackcurrants, dry caramel, brown bread crust, charred wood, dried dates, cold espresso, background notes of raisins, salmiak, minerals and haemoglobin (iron). Smooth, clean, sleek onset, some very basic medlar- and dried blueberry-ish fruitiness more related to malts than to esters, dry from the beginning, remaining very low in sweetness with very soft, tiny-bubbled ‘nitro’ carbonation effect and therefore creamy, slick mouthfeel. Dry-caramelly, toasted-brown-bready malt core, quickly turning roasty bitter, supported by wormwoody, rooty hop bitterness, combining into a long, dry, roasty, tonic-, leather- and charcoal-tinged finish, in which a thin trace of dark, bitter, unsugared chocolate lingers. Stubbornly old-fashioned dry stout unrelated to all those sweet (let alone pastry) stout evolutions of the past two decades, this beer is utterly solid, polished, focused and technically finetuned to perfection – I love a stout like this.

Draft @ Dynamo.
Noire, col banc-casse crémeux.
Arôme sur un bouquet bien malte - pale caramel, chocolat noisette avec une pointe houblonnée qui part sur des essences fleuries, terreuses nobles.
Palais offre une belle base de stout a l'anglaise - fine amertume vient compléter des malts sur des notes de chocolat amer, léger caramel.
Amertume marquée avec une touche mentholée, finement boisée et terreuse.

440ml can, part of 4 pack from the Co-op. Pours black with a large off-white foamy head. Aromas & tastes of chocolate, lactose & roasted malt. Creamy finish.

keg at the hanging bat ..dark black ..lovely tan head ...dark chocolate roast malts nose ..soft ovaltine chocolate roast malts

Can at home picked up from M&S. A opaque black mahogany brown coloured pour with a lasting creamy beige head. Aroma is nice earthy roast, roasted barley, creamy, charred wood, some dark berries. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, earthy rustic roast, light tang, charred wood, Palate is semi sweet, semi creamy, light tang, nitro , Good rustic stout.

On keg at the Hanging Bat
Appearance - mat black. Beige head.
Nose - coffee, treacle and bitter chocolate.
Taste - more treacle and this time creamy milk chocolate.
Palate - medium bodied , sweet then gently drying finish.
Overall - lovely stuff.