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Six Degrees North (Six°North) in Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 🏴
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured Regular|
Score
6.97
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Honey-flavoured stout by this accomplished craft brewery in Scotland; from tap at the Maxime Hotel in Stonehaven, which had a whole series of Six Degrees North beers on tap - too bad I was too exhausted to taste more of them after the trip to Dunnottar Castle... Thin and open, pale greyish beige, cream-lacing head dissipating over a near-black robe with burgundy glow. Aroma of roasted walnuts, coffee grounds, chicory, charcoal, dried blackcurrants, petrichor, 'natural' iron (blood), cigar tobacco and perhaps a vague flowery aspect of honey tucked away in the background. Clean onset, somewhat neutral at first, stingy carbon dioxide adding consistent minerality; notes of blackcurrants and dried elderberries, low in sweetness but still some, with smooth, perhaps rather thin but nevertheless pleasantly oily mouthfeel. Dry-caramelly maltiness with layers of charred toast and cold black coffee on top, while this minerality keeps running underneath it all; dry dark berry notes linger till the end, but I believe these 'mellowing' accents may come forth from the honey, which is otherwise as good as undetectable. Long roasty bitter finish with prronounced herbal hop bitterness too, a tad ashy in the end but in any case agreeably drying. Flavoured with honey this stout may be, but it is very far removed from the pastry nonsense we see so often today: I think the honey has simply fermented away, leaving nothing but vague flowery and berry-like elements over what is essentially a well-crafted 'northern' style dry stout. Loved it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can from the Six Degrees North Webshop. Black pour with a tan head. Chocolate, cocoa, light smoke & honey aromas. Coffee, chocolate & smoke flavours. Faint honey coming through in the back end. Dry, sweet malty finish. Does the job.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Can from Fountainhall Wines, Stonehaven. It pours jet black with a decent khaki head. The aroma is dark roasted malt, bitter - sweet, dark chocolate covered coffee beans, treacle, molasses, mellow honey, umami, liquorice and distant bonfire smoke. The taste is firmly dry, pretty bitter, dark roasted malt, charred malt, chewy, toothy, umami, liquorice, espresso coffee, dark chocolate, chocolate covered coffee beans, molasses and dull acidity with drying, dark roasted finish. Average body and moderate, fluffy carbonation. Honey is not as big a part of this beer as expected, it's quite subtle. Nice dry stout nonetheless.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
330ml can. Black with a thin tan head. Sweet caramel and chocolate aroma, honey warmth comes through in the flavour
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Black beer, tan head. Smells.malty, a little sweet. Flavour has lots of malt again, sweet and toasty. A little caramel, nice dry finish. Very decent.