Christmas Kitty
Brass Castle Brewery in Malton, North Yorkshire, England 🏴
Collab with: North Riding BrewpubPorter - Pastry / Flavoured Winter
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Score
6.91
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Annual collaboration brew with The North Riding Brewery. Bad Kitty with some Christmas cheer!
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6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
440ml can as a gift, most likely from Houae of Trembling Madness in York. Drunk at home. Very dark almost purplish brown with a tint ring of tan head. Cinnamon and maybe a bit of clove in the aroma, vanilla, raisins, chocolate. Taste is sweet, more puddingy fruit to the fore, with a decent bitterness in the vinous finish. Weighty body with almost no carbonation. It's quite nice but a bit much of a muchness. Enjoyed it but wouldn't fight someone over the last can on the shelf.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Dec 2025
at 19:45
6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Third of a pint on cask at the Queen 7:18 PM 27 Nov 22
Tried
from Cask
at
The Queen Crafthouse
on 23 Nov 2025
at 09:27
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can. Dark mahogany beer with a tan head. Roast aroma. Vanilla and light roast flavor with light spice. Medium bodied. Vanilla and light roast flavor with light spice and light caramel.
Tried
on 21 Feb 2025
at 20:23
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can from HOTM that I didn't get around to drinking at Christmas. Black with a lasting tan head. Sweet black coffee, a hint of vanilla pods, and a big kick of cinnamon in the lightly roasted finish. Maybe a tad thin at times, but still very enjoyable.
Tried
from Can
at
House Of The Trembling Madness (Stonegate)
on 25 Jan 2025
at 19:21
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
440ml can from Good Spirit Co, Glasgow. Pours a very dark brown with a small white head. Aromas & tastes of cinnamon, spice, cherry, vanilla & sweet malt. Medium body. Sweet finish
Tried
from Can
on 07 Jan 2025
at 16:12
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from House of Trembling Madness. Pours black with small beige head, reduces down quite quickly. Aroma of roasted malts, coffee, vanilla, cinnamon and other spices. Taste of roasted malts, chocolate and vanilla, cinnamon, clove, some coffee bitterness. Very nice.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:03
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
440ml can from The Fuss Club. A dark brown/black coloured pour with a medium beige/off white head on top. Sweet, malty, chocolate, cinnamon, spice, aroma & taste. A rather tasty festive porter that went down easily.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Dec 2024
at 14:41
8/10
cask at the bow bar ...dark black ..thin tan lacing ...soft oily chocolate ..dark oily spicy chocolate roast ...Light licorice ..soft sweet chocolate
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Jan 2024
at 19:22
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask @ Fox And Goose, Hebden Bridge. Black with a very light-brown creamy-frothy head. Winter spiced version of bad kitty, although the additions are light and its fair strength is uncompromised in terms of taste.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Jan 2024
at 05:43
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
29/3/2023. Can courtesy of ITFCDan. From Hopsters, Ipswich. Pours close to black with a small frothy off-white head. Aroma is big aniseed, spice market, Christmas cake, root veg, herbs, leather, hint of vanilla and Parma violet. Medium to heavy sweetness, light roasted bitterness. Medium body, soft carbonation. Wasn’t a big fan of this.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Mar 2023
at 19:21