Black Rock Ale
Islay Ales in Bridgend, Argyll and Bute, Scotland 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.31
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Mr_Pink_152 (17201) reviewed Black Rock Ale from Islay Ales 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle on Holiday. Deep golden colour lots of lemon citrus aroma and taste. with a slightly tart taste medium body.
BenL8 (2068) reviewed Black Rock Ale from Islay Ales 8 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pours a lovely reddish copper/amber colour, clear with a little bit of head. Aroma is very restrained, a bit malty, caramelly and sweet. Slight bitter note. Medium body, interesting mouthfeel. Flavour is mild, nutty, quite caramelly, surprisingly rich and malty, finishes nicely bitter and dry with a hint of orange. Nice!
blackisle (5698) reviewed Black Rock Ale from Islay Ales 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 50cl. Poured into a tumbler. Clear deep amber, small frothy beige head, mostly diminishing, light lacing; aroma toasted malts, caramel, bread, woody notes; taste is medium sweet and bitter, malty, toffee, average duration, dry and toasted malts finish; medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation; perhaps bit thin but on the whole a pleasant bitter.
Stuu (34525) reviewed Black Rock Ale from Islay Ales 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at SRAF 2011. Pours copper amber, nose is caramel, toffee, light fruit, taste is sweet, nutty, toffee.
oh6gdx (51139) reviewed Black Rock Ale from Islay Ales 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottled (from AbM, old backlog). Deep amber colour, small slightly off-white head. Aroma is earthy, mild toffee, quite strong wood and some resin to it. Flavour is toffee, toasted notes, earth and some slight wooden notes.
yespr (55501) reviewed Black Rock Ale from Islay Ales 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
50 cl bottle. Pours hazy brown with a small white head. Aroma is toasted malty and light breadish. Bitter, toasted malty and breadish. Dry malty. Light fruity. Bitter and toasted malty finish. Toasted finish.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Black Rock Ale from Islay Ales 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Scottish bitter apparently based on their Finlaggan Ale, but a bit darker, more toasty maltiness, a bit woody and mineral-like, bit thin mouthfeel, smooth. Should re-rate this as this is done from memory and it’s been a long time.
allmyvinyl (21071) reviewed Black Rock Ale from Islay Ales 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
500ml bottle from Drinkmonger, Edinburgh. Pours clear copper, nice lacing. Aromas of soft caramel, light fruit. nothing much else, nothing much changes on the taste, a bit watery. Passable.
KansaiBeerLovers (8927) reviewed Black Rock Ale from Islay Ales 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle at the GJBF 2013 Osaka. A dark maroon color, nice looking. Some smokiness but a two-dimensional beer which is a bit rough. Not bad, an ok bitter. A bottle at home from rakuten, slightly sour, rough taste, it seems to have gone off...the color is still great and so is the body/head but it seems somewhat oxidized or something. Definitely the worse for wear. In this condition I’d give it a 2.5...