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

4th November 2017
Opaque dark brown beer, good tan head. Palate is smooth and has decent fine carbonation. Very tangy dark malts with a touch of soft dark malt cream. Good tangy dark fruits, flirting with sour here. Trace of dark chocolate.Very tangy finish. I normally dislike tangy stout but this one is so unapologetically tangy it has won me round to a degree.

Our bruin aroma. Chocolate. Leather. Prunes. Blackcurrants. Excellent

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

Bottle thanks to Leighton at his pre-xmas extravaganza. It pours very dark brown, with a thin tan film. The nose is sweet fruit, sour tang, roasted malt and wood. The taste is caramel, big sour tang, dark chocolate, dark dried fruit (currants, raisin etc), roasted malt and wood, with a dry finish. Medium body and low carbonation. Not great.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle at home in London. Aged about a year. Pours dark brown with a thick, foamy beige head. Rich dark malt aroma with some roast and dark chocolate. Medium sweet flavor, light roasted malts, slight tang, some ash. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Fairly thin to finish, mild sweetness, light burnt earth bitterness, tangy dark malts, some ashy wood. Nothing special here.

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

Courtesy of fonefan
Black color; very large head (too much carbonation?). Aroma of roasted malt, caramel, light liquorice, light bitter herbs, and a vein of sourness. Good body strength, good dark caramel and coffee flavor; but the acidity from the dark malts is too high; the roastiness has a major participation in trhe final.

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

Bottle from Memorable Cheeses, Ipswich. Quite enjoyable, though had hoped it would be a little more impressive as an 8% Imperial Stout. Poured out flat and just seemed to lack something overall.

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

Bottle 330ml.Clear dark brown black color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, burnt - coffee, smoke notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, chocolate, dark bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100409]

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

Dark brown with a tiny beige head. Sweet aroma with burned malt and liquerice. Flavour had burned malt, english liquerice and coffee notes. Finished rather dry.

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

33 cL bottle. Pours dark brown to black with a small tan head. Aroma is roasted and liqourice. Mild acidic flavoured, dark roasted malty. Bitter, mild smoked and lingering dark malty finish.

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

Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of madmitch76. Pours black with a vague orange hue and no head. Aroma of hard roasted malt and a little tar and manure. Solid body, very astringent burned malts, metal and blood - tar, tobacco and iodine, really skewed with an underlying tartness. Malt bitter finish. 090410