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Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.70
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Chocolate and Honeycomb Imperial Stout
This rich full-bodied imperial stout delivers a decadent blend of bold flavours, with layers of rich dark chocolate and cinder toffee to capture the irresistable taste of out favourity crunchy snacck.
This rich full-bodied imperial stout delivers a decadent blend of bold flavours, with layers of rich dark chocolate and cinder toffee to capture the irresistable taste of out favourity crunchy snacck.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
Can (small can) picked up from Hereford Beer House whereupon the lady behind the counter informed me it was a great beer but very sweet. I consumed at home, sat out in the garden in the company of Mum and Keith, Sunday 22nd June 2025 after a nice afternoon at SchΓΆnberg Volksfest, we had Pork Satay and Rice for tea.Β Pours shark eye black with a thin head that was rapidly consumed by the inky depths below it.. Aroma is mostly chocolate and honeycomb but it's also giving some boozy wafts. In the mouth it's a very sweet beer, tasting just like a liquid crunchie bar, which I guess was the aim. It's a little bit boozy but only very slight, tbf it doesn't taste 15%.
Tried
from Can
from
Hereford Beer House
on 22 Jun 2025
at 19:30
8.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 7
Overall 9
On tap. Pours black with no head. Aroma of chocolate syrup, toffee, maple syrup and slick roasted malts. Flavors of rich dark chocolate, Crunch bar, vanilla, and oily roasted malts. Chocolatey sweet. They nailed the chocolate bar. Very good.
Tried
from Draft
at
CASK Pub & Kitchen
on 16 Jun 2025
at 12:53
8.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9
On tap at CPK, Pimlico on 13th June 2025. Rated as a novelty ale. Almost impenetrably black with brown foam and spot lacing. Rich and intense chocolate and honeycomb aroma. Lush and rich milk chocolate in-mouth and a long, solid, satisfying finish of milk chocolate and the honeycomb flavour associated with a similarly named confectionery product. Velvet smooth mouthfeel and plenty of body to it. Utterly superb.
Tried
from Draft
at
CASK Pub & Kitchen
on 13 Jun 2025
at 21:00
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Low Key Taproom. Black beer lasting tan head. I mean it smells like a dark chocolate Crunchie bar. No messing. It has no harshness or heat. So smooth. Tastes like a crunchie bar. Crazy
Really loved it.
Really loved it.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Jun 2025
at 18:20
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8.5
Tried
from Can
on 06 Jun 2025
at 21:18
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
330ml can. Pours jet black with a thin head. Aroma is dark chocolate, roast, honeycomb and alcohol. Taste is sweet with honeycomb and milk chocolate. Boozy finish.
Tried
from Can
on 30 May 2025
at 21:46
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
On tap at MBCC 2025 (Red session), pours black, no head. Aroma has lots of maple crunch cereal, sugars, and alcohol. Flavour has plenty of maple crunch cereal, no malt base, intense sugars. This is really bad β no malt base, just lots of sugars and artificial adjuncts. Poor.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 May 2025
at 05:14
7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
On tap at MBCC 2025, red session. Pours dark brown. Stale bread, dark chocolate on the nose. Flavour has bready malts, some crusts, dark chocolate. Okay, jumbled.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 May 2025
at 02:57
8/10
24/05/2025 Sample at Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen 2025
Tried
on 24 May 2025
at 14:20
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
MBCC 2025. Session #3.
Sweet, a lot of chcocolate, nice. Moderately sweet. Nice one (maybe just a bit artificial).
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Sweet, a lot of chcocolate, nice. Moderately sweet. Nice one (maybe just a bit artificial).
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Tried
on 24 May 2025
at 13:16