Black Diamond
Gower Brewery in Crofty, Swansea, Wales 🏴
Porter Regular|
Score
6.60
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A stunning full bodied Welsh porter, smokey, chocolate and liquorice flavours, with subtle spicy bittering hops. Black Diamond is a seasonal cask ale but available all year round in bottle.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
A 500ml bottle brought back from my trip to South Wales earlier this year. A decent porter with coffee & chocolate, earthy & smokey. Not too sweet but you can pick out the liquorice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 May 2025
at 20:12
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Nose is roast, licorice, hint of chocolate. Taste is earthy smokey, light fruit, leading to a bitter medicinal and licorice finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 May 2024
at 20:51
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask @ Bishops Arms Gustav, Malmö. Pours a black color with a small tan head. Has a roasted fruity chocolate aroma. Roasted malty chocolate and caramel bitter flavor. Slightly thin mouthfeel. Has a roasted malty caramel chocolate finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Jun 2023
at 17:49
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at Captain Cooks, Östersund. A middling Porter that did what it intended with reasonable Malt girth and dark black colour.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 May 2023
at 21:14
21/02/2018. PIG & FIDDLE, 2 Saracen Street, BATH, Bath & North East Somerset, England (BUTCOMBE)
Tried
on 06 Mar 2023
at 19:28
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Fra gravicask på The 24th Carmarthon Beer Festival. Delt med Rune. Svart. Lavt luftig skum. Lett sjokoladearoma. Smaken sjokolade. Forsiktig. Tørr avslutning. Kakao.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Oct 2018
at 18:20
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml bottle from Brewer’s Stand at NEC Good Food Show - Deep ruby black body, off-white head. Nose and taste are standard roast and toast, coffee, chocolate and liquorice. Not too bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Mar 2017
at 05:59
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from the brewer’s own stand at the Good Food Show at Birmingham NEC. Brown-black with a beige head and a light fizz. Roasty malt and chocolate in a rather light body. Pretty average.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2016
at 16:33
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask @ Calans, Hebden Bridge. Dark clouded brown with a small head. Has some very palatable dark and roasted malts in both aroma and taste.
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Jul 2016
at 07:44
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask gravity at Duke of Wellington, Norwich. It pours hazy near black with a bubbly beige head. The aroma is earthy roasted malts, liquorice allsorts, umami and malt loaf. The taste is smooth, toast, liquorice, light ash, mild astringency, dry wood with a drying finish. Medium body and soft carbonation. A fairly ho hum porter. Drinks easy anyhow.
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Jul 2016
at 12:05