Black Gold (Cask)
(Batch of Black Gold)
Cairngorm Brewery in Aviemore, Highland, Scotland 🏴
Stout Regular|
Score
7.01
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A Scottish stout with a wonderful rich dark colour. A smooth full bodied beer with subtle bitterness giving way to late sweetness and underlying roast barley hints.
Only ratings of the cask version should be entered here. The bottled version has a separate entry.
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6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask at the William Robert Loosley (JDW), High Wycombe. Black with a thick beige head. Pleasant sweet smooth chocolate with a hint of blackcurrant is rudely interrupted by some cheap black coffee and sour creosote. Nice at first but rather went off it by the end of the pint.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Jan 2014
at 10:00
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Cask at the Old Manor (JDW), Bracknell. Pitch black in colour with a loose tan head; aroma of well roasted chocolate malts; very sweet and rather thin in the mouth with a malty chocolate taste; and a dry and pleasantly bitter finish. Unfortuanately rather one-dimensional.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Jan 2014
at 13:02
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at JDW Charlie Hall; dark brown pour with smooth tan head, roast coffee and chocolate aroma, taste has coffee, dark fruits and plain chocolate, a hint of sweetness and smoke, very good.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Dec 2013
at 05:34
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at The White Lady, JDW, Edinburgh. Pours dark brown with a good creamy off-white head. Cream notes continue on the aroma, with milk chocolate and something nutty. Taste is good, decent balance, but could do with more roastiness for a stout. Finishes a bit thin.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Oct 2013
at 15:01
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at GBBF 2013, Olympia, London. A black coloured pour with a thin beige head on top. Rich, malty, chocolate aroma. Tastes is similar, rich, malty, chocolate, sweet, some caramel. Very nice indeed.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Aug 2013
at 14:24
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Black as night. Roast coffee aroma, sublime balanced taste with silky mouthfeel. Wonderfully complex finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Jun 2013
at 23:00
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at Gallows Bird, Espoo. Originally rated 21012012. Colour is black with small head. Aromas and flavours: Coffee, chocolate, fruits and roasted malts.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Jun 2013
at 03:38
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Cask @ JDW Elgin [030213]
Jet black, thin ruby edges, dense rich dark tan head with very good lacing
Aroma of rich smooth dark malts, very soft mellow roast, dark toffee malts, touch of treacle, very smooth
Taste - rich smooth velvety fairly sweet dark malts, very soft mellow roast, dab of soft very dark rich chocolate toffee, hint of dark fruit, milk sugars, hint of coffee, very well balanced, great flavour
Palate - Medium body, very smooth quite sweet palate. Finish as main flavour with a very smooth dark malts finish with some milk sugars
Overall - Should have rated this ages ago. The cask is much better than the bottle. At it’s abv it’s probably the best Scottish stout I’ve tasted - must be one of the best in the UK. It’s Cairngorm’s top beer.
Jet black, thin ruby edges, dense rich dark tan head with very good lacing
Aroma of rich smooth dark malts, very soft mellow roast, dark toffee malts, touch of treacle, very smooth
Taste - rich smooth velvety fairly sweet dark malts, very soft mellow roast, dab of soft very dark rich chocolate toffee, hint of dark fruit, milk sugars, hint of coffee, very well balanced, great flavour
Palate - Medium body, very smooth quite sweet palate. Finish as main flavour with a very smooth dark malts finish with some milk sugars
Overall - Should have rated this ages ago. The cask is much better than the bottle. At it’s abv it’s probably the best Scottish stout I’ve tasted - must be one of the best in the UK. It’s Cairngorm’s top beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Feb 2013
at 04:14
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
18th September 2012: Birmingham (England); mini-pub-crawl. 2nd pint of the evening was in the Wetherspoons pub called ‘The Brier Rose’. I enjoyed this immensely and found it to be far superior to its bottled version. Same lovely dark ruby red body: this time the head stayed, a thick layer of tanned foam sat throughout the tasting. Chocolate and coffee esters in the nose; carried on into the taste and then liquorice arrives to add extra flavours and balance. Malty molasses gave it some sweetness, which helped my enjoyment of the pint as I prefer the slightly sweeter brews to the hop bitterness some offer. Richer and creamier than the bottle; this was a great beer and set me up for the rest of the evenings drinking.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Sep 2012
at 04:55
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
On tap @ the Haymarket Bar. Pours opaque black with a nice creamy head. The nose has a hint of chocolate and some earthiness. The taste has more of the same. The palate is at least medium bodied with a creamy texture and a finish that is not particularly elegant but suffices. Overall, I’m disappointed as this had been rated highly by others.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Jan 2012
at 03:19