6.6

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

Cask at the Queens Head, Stourbridge. Pours very dark brown with a small head. Aroma is fruity roast. Taste has dark fruity roast with a touch of liquorice on the finish.

7

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Cask at Greyfriar, Reading. Aroma has charcoal and coffee, alongside toffee. Opaque cola brown. Foamy beige head soon retreats to the rim.finish. Initial coffee and sour berries, followed by porridge and malts. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Soft-fizzy carbonation. Long dry somewhat astringent.

7.4

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

Cask at Briar Rose, Birmingham. Pours a dark brown-mahogany with small tanned head. It was very roasty in flavour with coffee and liquorice coming through as well as chocolate, smoke and a touch of berry sour. Just about enough sweetness amongst the bitter roast to balance. Rich, medium bodied. This one doesn't hold back in terms of the style- a bit underrated I think.

7

On cask at Heaven and Ale, Barnsley - black, beige head. Chocolate hit up front, that reyt good chocolate that is like 70%. Bit of vanilla, smooth creamy, liquorice.

6.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Cask at The Justice Mill, Aberdeen. It pours darkest brown to black with a medium fluffy white head. The aroma is dark roasted malt , charred action, bitter - sweet, vanilla, chocolate cake, vanilla, caramel and toffee. The taste is dry, bitter - sweet, charred, burnt toast, umami, cacao nibs, dark chocolate, treacle, malt loaf, dull vanilla and toasted fruit cake with dry, toasty finish. Average body and fine, fluffy carbonation. Decent stuff.

7

What am I doing in a fucking Spoons, on a random Wednesday and getting a pint that is actually good. Truly, it is the end of times.

8.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Cask at the Duke of St Albans, Highgate on 23rd April 2024. Deep sepia black with tan foam and scant lacing. Rich and intense coffee roast malt aroma. Lush roasty malts in-mouth with woodsmoke and coffee. Lasting roasty finish. Full bodied with a smooth mouthfeel. --- Beer merged from original tick of Black Beauty Vanilla Porter on 04 Feb 2025 at 19:36 - Score: Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7. Original review text: Cask at the Duke of St Albans, Highgate on 4th February 2025. Intensely dark sepia brown with shallow, tan foam and spot lacing. Rich and intense roastiness in aroma. Roasty in-mouth with bitter chocolate, and sour hints. A finish of dark, bitter chocolate and an apple touch. Full bodied with a smooth mouthfeel.

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Cask at JDW, Cambuslang. Dark brown with a creamy off white head. Vanilla and coffee aroma, flavour is coffee and chocolate, with a fruity aftertaste

3.8

Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 16

Cask at St Albans Camra Beer Festival 2023. Pours deep brown with a beige to tan cap. Light coffee, roasty aroma. Taste is chocolate, liquorice, little sour note. Thin body with light carbonation. Lovely stuff. Always enjoy trying the old recipes