Great Oakley Brewery Abbey Stout

Abbey Stout

 

Great Oakley Brewery in Tiffield, Northamptonshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Stout Regular
Score
6.97
ABV: 5.0% IBU: - Ticks: 17
An exemplary dark rich stout with a lasting loose tan head. Brewed with generous amounts of roast barley and German hops, expect an aroma of woodland, coffee and ash. The flavour is sweet and spicy, over herbal hops with a hint of coffee and a gorgeous blackberry sweetness which creeps in around the start of the sip, but finishing bitter and dry.
 

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7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

11/2/2019. Bottle from Bottle Mix, Kettering. Pours almost black with a tan coloured head. Aroma of chocolate, roasted malt, coffee, slight liquorice and dark fruit/berries. Medium sweetness and moderate roasted bitterness. Medium body, slight oily texture, average carbonation. Pretty good.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Feb 2019 at 21:54


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle from Bottle Mix, Kettering. Nice creamy head with good duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are rich roast malt, coffee, chocolate and hops. A bit too carbonated. Sweet and bitter finish.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Feb 2019 at 21:52


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Bottle Mix, Kettering. Almost black with a light brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt and light hoppy - grass. Flavor is medium sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish. 100219

Tried from Bottle on 10 Feb 2019 at 21:52


7.2
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Black beer, beige head. Woody, coffee aroma. Flavour follows suit, with a whack of earthy malt and liquorice. Dry, malty aftertaste.

Tried on 03 Aug 2018 at 17:53


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cask-conditioned at the Seven Stars, Bristol 13/1/2018. Black in colour, with a slight, off-white, head. Toasty malts, blackcurrant fruit, touch of liquorice and moderately dry finish. Good.

Tried from Cask on 14 Jan 2018 at 07:10


7
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

Handpull cask at the Queen Edith, Cambridge. Brown or black? Hard to tell. Certainly dark as you like. The malt dominates the aroma, with freshly roast coffee and charcoal not quite successful in completely drowning out the grassy hop. I expected it to be really dry, and it is, but there’s a gorgeous blackberry sweetness which creeps in around the start of the sip. It finishes bitter and dry, though, and the malt feels over-roasted on the charred finish. The flat, oily body doesn’t help either. Am I just being picky? A bit, because all in all this is a pretty exemplary recipe.

Tried from Cask on 06 Feb 2017 at 14:12


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask at the chesham brewery shop. Opaque dark brown / black coloured pour with a lasting loose tan head. Aroma is woodland berry, tart fruits, raisin, bit of coffee, ash. Flavour is big rough coffee, woody, spicy yeast, charred wood. Bit of booze. Palate is full, sweet, moderate cask condition. Long lingering woody roast and berry.

Tried from Cask on 11 Apr 2015 at 10:17


7

Tried on 10 May 2014 at 17:10


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Cask at GBBF 2011, Day 3. Pours rich black with a bubbly, tan head. Cocoa and roasted malt aroma. Medium sweet flavor, notes of milk chocolate, good roasted malts. Slight lactic sugars. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Great, balanced finish, mild burnt sugar, roasty malts. Suberb stuff. Very well done.

Tried from Cask on 19 Sep 2011 at 14:53


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2011, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.Clear dark black colour with vitually none head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, burnt, chocolate, tar, licorice. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily to creamy, carbonation is flat. [20110803]

Tried from Cask on 11 Sep 2011 at 02:53