7.1

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

Cask, third pint. @Nottingham Camra Beer Festival, Nottingham (England). 10/10/2024 [#7.842 Global - #41 Wales - #1 Facers Brewery (My Welsh brewery #21)] Pours dark brown with a bubbly head. Aroma: tobacco, liquorice and roasted malts. Taste: tobacco and roasted cocoa beans. Roasty palate. Next one, please!

7

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

Cask at the Queens Head, Stourbridge. Pours very dark brown with a large head. Aroma is dey roast, coffee and a little chocolate. Taste has smooth roast, coffee and milk chocolate. Dry yeasty roast finish.

7

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

11/10/2024. Cask at Nottingham Beer & Cider Festival 2024. Pours very dark maroon brown with a small bubbly/frothy off-white head. Aroma is light roasted malt, chocolate, liquorice, toasted, caramel, dried fruit. Moderate sweetness, body and roasted bitterness. Oily, soft carbonation, slightly watery, but overall good for its abv.

6.6

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

[February 2023] Dark brown, near black, with a reddish tinge and a creamy tan head. Chocolate malt and a roasted earthiness combine, some sweetness up front, on the thin side but smooth with hints of coffee and a subtle bitterness in the finish

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6.1

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

Cask at Vine, Wednesfield. Pours a dark reddish brown with a small cream head.. Roast malts in the nose with hints of vanilla. In the mouth it has a creamy texture with malts and Olde English Spangles, plus traces og coffee and dark fruits. Finish is dry – with added treacle. Reasonable but not a world beater.

6.3

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

Cask pint @ Corn Mill, Llangollen on an extremely hot May bank holiday afternoon. Pours dark, small tan head. Woody, roasty nose. Taste is smooth with chocolate and tobacco roast, light on the palette, initially quite tasty but becoming a little thin and lacklustre mid-way through. Still, not a bad cask porter.

7

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

On cask at the Ship. Appearance - opaque black with a lovely fawn head. Nose - light creamy mocha aroma. Taste - burnt bread and charcoal. Chocolate liqueur. Palate - medium bodied with a creamy texture and a fairly elegant finish. Overall - good porter.