Lymestone Brewery Stone The Crows

Stone The Crows

 

Lymestone Brewery in Stone, Staffordshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular
Score
6.39
ABV: 5.4% IBU: - Ticks: 40
A rich red to black beer carefully crafted from the finest crystal and chocolate malts. Chewy juicy fruit flavours give way to a deep lingering bitterness provided by an abundance of Styrian Goldings, Millenium and Nugget hops.
 

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7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Handpull cask at the Queens Road Tap, Leicester. Mid- to dark mahogany, opaque with a small beige head. Liquorice, earth, smoke in the aroma. Sweet taste with notes of Marmite, salt liquorice, molasses. Finish is far more bitter with intense English Hop nestling on the back of the tongue. Medium body with soft carbonation. Lymestone is one of the most inconsistent breweries out there, butvthey occasionally cone out with a gem like this.

Tried from Cask at Queens Road Tap on 24 Apr 2025 at 18:05


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

Cask at The London & North Western (JDW), Birmingham. Pours deep mahogany brown with beige foam. Chocolate malts, dark berries, dry taste, nice bitterness, slightly astringent finish. Medium body with soft carbonation.

Tried from Cask on 25 Feb 2024 at 22:17


4.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 3.5

From tap at the Willeymoor Lock Tavern by the Llangollen canal while on cansø boat with my parents 18.06.22. Dark brown. Beige head. Aroma and taste sawdust and tar. Same in aftertaste. Nor great.

Tried from Draft on 18 Jun 2022 at 21:23


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask at Picture House, Stafford – served too cold so may require a rerate Nose has dark fruits – probably blueberries. Pours a very dark ruby red. In the mouth fruityness predominates with plums noticeable. But there is also bready malts and hints of coffee and caramel. Finish is blackberries with a bit of malt. Watery and not as nice as I remember it being.

Tried from Cask on 18 Sep 2019 at 22:16


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

Fra cask på The Waterhouse JDW, Manchester. Veldig mørkebrun. Lavt tett skum med litt farge. Tynn teppelacing. Aroma av nøtter & sjokolade. Silkemyk munnfølelse. Smaken tørket frukt & kjeks. Tørr bitter avslutning. Godt øl!

Tried from Cask on 06 May 2018 at 09:27


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

Cask at The Castle Hotel, Manchester. Pours brown with small off-white head. Malty, toasted, some fruit, caramel, some coffee. Sweet, bitterness in finish. Soft carbonation. Bit watery. Medium bodied.

Tried from Cask at Castle Hotel (Robinson’s) on 05 Nov 2017 at 06:55


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

Cask at Three Judges. It pours clear darkest brown with a thick tan head. The aroma is toasted brown bread, coffee grounds, cacao nibs, malt loaf, wood and light charry/ashy note. The taste is dry, bitter, wood, varnish, leather, mild astringency, earthy, dirt, coffee grounds, burnt cake, charred wood and some dried fruits. Medium + body and soft carbonation. A bit chewy and earthy, but decent for style.

Tried from Cask on 16 Oct 2016 at 09:10


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Tried at the Nottingham beer festival 2015. Dark ruby colour with an off white head. Aroma has stewed fruit taste fruity.

Tried on 10 Oct 2015 at 08:02


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Tried on 18 Jan 2015 at 08:44


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

Bottle from Carringtons, Chorlton [131114]
Very dark brown, frothy tan head, good lacing
Aroma of very fruity dark malts, jammy tart dark fruits, no roast, plummy
Taste of jammy dark fruits, sweet sticky fruity dark malts, some bitter dark chocolate, getting some bitter spicy hop in there, quite complex
Palate - Soft carb, medium body, sticky quite sweet, some tart jammy fruits, liquorice. Finish of roasted malts, some bitter roast, soft dark chocolate
Overall - Very fruity malts in this, sort of a cross between an old ale and stout. Unusually over fruity malts, maybe a tad too much.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Nov 2014 at 14:06