Dark Moor
Kelburn Brewery in Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, Scotland 🏴
Traditional Beer - Old Ale Winter|
Score
6.47
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Smooth, dark and dangerous, this ale is designed to warm the cockles of your heart whilst sitting around the ingle after a long cold winter’s day outdoors. Although dark and and robust the aftertones of liquorice and blackcurrant make this an ale of complex character, not to be missed.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at Scottish Real Ale Festival 2014. Clear amber body with a thin white head. Aroma of roasted malts and caramel. Flavour of toffee, berries and apple. Thin body with an oily mouthfeel. Faint carbonation prickle. A lovely beer - nice flavour and complexity.
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Jul 2014
at 08:17
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On cask @ Carter’s Bar, Edinburgh. Appearance - dark amber with a red chink. Decent head. Nose - many characteristics of a bitter but deeper and sweeter. Taste - again more sweetness on the taste than originally expected. Intense toffee. Palate - medium to full bodied, with a creamy texture and not a bad finish. Overall - interesting ale, I’d have had another if it wasn’t closing time.
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Nov 2013
at 01:38
7/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at The Essex Arms, Watford on 20 October. Poured a clear, very dark ruby with a dense, creamy off white head. Aroma of cocoa, dark malts and earth. Chocolate and dark fruit flavours with a hint cinnamon. Smooth palate with coffee, caramel and brown sugar.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Oct 2013
at 13:12
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at GBBF 2013, Olympia, London. A dark brown coloured pour with a medium beige head on top. Malty, caramel aroma. Tastes is similar, malty, caramel, dark fruit in there. Smooth and easy drinking old ale.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Aug 2013
at 11:47
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at the Three Judges, Glasgow. It pours deep brown with a medium off-white head. The nose is earth, wood, leather and subtle toffee. The taste is wood, dried fruit, varnish, leather, toast, light caramel, decent bitterness and spice, with a dry finish. Medium body and soft carbonation. Smooth, balanced and rather drinkable.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Jul 2013
at 07:11
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask @ JDW Standing Order, Edinburgh 141112
Copper brown, clear, thin frothy off white head, some lacing
Aroma of caramel malts, sweet toffee malts, soft toasted malts
Taste of caramel toffee malts, hint of soft coffee, touch of chocolate, some toasted malts, light raisin
Palate - thin to medium body. Finish - fairly bitter toasted malts, rather dry bitter linger
Overall - Fairly decent bitter
Copper brown, clear, thin frothy off white head, some lacing
Aroma of caramel malts, sweet toffee malts, soft toasted malts
Taste of caramel toffee malts, hint of soft coffee, touch of chocolate, some toasted malts, light raisin
Palate - thin to medium body. Finish - fairly bitter toasted malts, rather dry bitter linger
Overall - Fairly decent bitter
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Nov 2012
at 14:23