Exmoor Ales Beast (Cask)

Beast (Cask)
(Batch of Beast)

 

Exmoor Ales in Wiveliscombe, Somerset, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Porter Regular
Score
6.88
ABV: 6.6% IBU: - Ticks: 75
Beast is a full-bodied dark porter. It’s dark mahogany-brown in colour, with a hint of crimson. Rich aromas of toffee, treacle, Mocha coffee, vinous fruit, and chocolate. There’s more complexity on the palate with fruitcake, a hint of rum, more Mocha coffee, herbal hoppiness, vinous fruit, and a bittersweet finish that’s smooth yet complex, rich but not cloying.

Hops: Goldings, Challenger and First Gold. Brewed with a mix of pale ale, chocolate and crystal malts.
 

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8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Tried from Cask at GBBF Winter Beer Festival (Camra) on 14 Feb 2025 at 10:12


6.5

Tried from Cask on 28 Jan 2025 at 17:16


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

Pours a dark brown colour with a reddish tint and a small khaki beige head. The aroma is roasted, roasted malts, bitter chocolate, and coffee. A moderately sweet roasted taste, roasted malts, dark chocolate, coffee, and dark fruit flavours with a sweetish, roasted finish.

Tried on 28 Dec 2024 at 15:46


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Hand-pulled pint on 25th October 2024, The Robert Fitzharding (a Spoons in Bristol). Dark brew, ruby hue to the body, beige crown. Malty, boozy and heavy. On the sweet side with a 'fruit and nut chocolate bar' sort of taste.

Tried on 26 Oct 2024 at 08:04


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Cask at PoW Beer Festival. Aroma is grainy. With a hint of liquorice. Malts. Opaque. Dark with a red tint. Frothy beige head retreats to the rim. Liquorice and malts in terms of flava. Medium bodied. Slick. Oily. Average carbonation. Long slightly astringent finish. As far as trad CAMRA endorsed beers go then this would be a beast of a beer. Not bad at all.

Tried from Cask on 16 Oct 2021 at 17:56


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

Pint at the Red lion.
Medium creamy beige head. Clear deep amber pour. Hint of licorice

Tried from Cask at Red Lion (JDW) on 04 Jul 2021 at 18:30


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Pours a very dark reddish-brown with a small cream head. A boozy aroma of raisins mixed with chocolate. In the mouth it has the sweetness of dark fruits and toffee, a biscuit flavouring of malts, and the alcoholic warmth of rum. Raisins again in the finish, and an overall warming glow. This is a belter of a beer – and is dangerously drinkable !

Tried on 02 Mar 2020 at 22:21


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

20/2/2020. Cask at the Chelmsford Winter Beer & Cider Festival 2020. Pours very dark brown with a lasting bubbly beige head. Aroma of roasted malt, dark fruit, chocolate, toffee, raisins and biscuit. Moderate sweetness and medium bitterness. Medium to full bodied, soft carbonation. Rich warming earthy and slightly dry finish.

Tried from Cask on 20 Feb 2020 at 17:09


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

Cask: Poured a dark brown with red edges, creamy light brown head. Aroma is caramel malts. Taste is rich with some chocolate and roasted malts.

Tried from Cask on 24 Dec 2019 at 14:35


6.9
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Nearly opaque very dark beer with a decent beige head. Light scent of fruity, toasted malt. Taste follows suit, with the balance nicely done between the sweetness of the fruit and nice, toasty malt. A bit of liquorice too. Not massively complex and suffers from a slightly watery aftertaste / feel but otherwise it's a fairly straightforward beer done pretty well.

Tried on 18 Feb 2019 at 16:56