Calm Before The Storm
Five Kingdoms Brewery in Isle of Whithorn, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland 🏴
Stout - Oatmeal Regular|
Score
6.84
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Baby brother to 'Dark Storm' is our latest stout on cask, 'Calm Before The Storm'. Coffee and chocolate flavours, super smooth and full bodied thanks to the addition of oats.
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6.5/10
Cask at the Peterborough BF
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Aug 2025
at 11:53
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Panda thanks to Grumbo: Poured a deep dark brown almost black with a creamy beige head. Aroma is chocolate, roasted malts, biscuit. Taste is smokey, roasted malts, dark fruits.
Tried
on 09 Aug 2025
at 01:04
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Panda at home, thanks to Graham Grumbo, 29/05/2025.
Extremely dark mahogany brown leaning to black and topped with a lasting tan head.
Nose is chocolate biscuit, roast malts, charr, hint of liquorice.
Taste comprises roast malts, charr, ashen nip, dried fruit rinds, raisins, cocoa sprinkle.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, light drying close
Tidy stout.
Extremely dark mahogany brown leaning to black and topped with a lasting tan head.
Nose is chocolate biscuit, roast malts, charr, hint of liquorice.
Taste comprises roast malts, charr, ashen nip, dried fruit rinds, raisins, cocoa sprinkle.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, light drying close
Tidy stout.
Tried
on 29 May 2025
at 17:45
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 3
Overall 7
3/5/2025. Bottle from Beer Without Borders. Pours close to black with a large frothy off-white to beige head. Aroma is malted, chocolate, ashy, liquorice, dark fruits, berries, slight smoked and peated notes. Medium sweetness, moderate roasted bitterness. Medium body, very fizzy. Shame about the carbonation, liked it otherwise.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Beer Without Borders / Riverside Tap
on 03 May 2025
at 17:44
6/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 May 2025
at 17:43
6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 5
Overall 6.5
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 May 2025
at 17:37
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
500ml bottle [courtesy of Grumbo - cheers Graham!]. Jet black colour with average to huge, frothy, slowly osteoporosing, moderately lacing, dirty off-white head. Sweet-ish, oaty-grainy and slightly roasty, dark malty aroma, hints of chocolate pudding, grassy hoppy overtones. Taste is sweet-ish, chocolately, dark malty and oaty malty, hints of chocolate pudding, mildly bitter, grassy hoppy overtones, subtle sweetness with a touch of lactose. Dissolved sugar enriched, watery texture, smooth and soft palate, medium, mildly prickly carbonation. Balanced, homogeneous - very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Nov 2024
at 20:30
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at graf. Pours deep brown, nose is roasted, chocolate, oats, taste is chewy, chocolate, liquorice.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Jun 2024
at 19:10
7/10
cask at indie beer scot.. deep red brown.. soft sweet caramel woody toffee malts .. big sweet toffee chocolate roast malts nose
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Sep 2023
at 08:31