Tabula Rasa
Bearwood Brewing in Wokingham, Berkshire, England 🏴
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.30
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A new brewery means a clean slate. This Imperical Stout is adjunct free with chocolate. caramel and slight coffee flavours provided by dark malts alone.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
On tap at Bearwood Brewing Taproom in Wokingham, Berkshire. A very dark brown/black coloured pour with a thinnish beige head on top. Sweet, roasty, malty, chocolate, caramel, coffee aroma and taste. Decent enough imperial stout.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Jun 2026
at 16:20
6.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Can shared at the craft beer junction bermondsey tasting. A clear oily brown coloured pour with a halo of tan head. Aroma is salty peanut brittle, alcohol.. Flavour is composed sticky sweet, peanut brittle, salty, alcohol, harsh bitter alcohol bite. Palate is thick and chewy mellow carbonation. Harsh, alcohol.
Tried
on 29 Apr 2026
at 21:33
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can at Craig's. Pours black, nose is chocolate, caramel, toffee, taste is bitter, chocolate, caramel, some coffee notes. 8/7/8/8/7
Tried
on 24 Apr 2026
at 07:39
8/10
Can thanks to Stuu666.
Appearance - opaque black and a thin tan head.
Nose - earthy, chocolate and an edge of dried fruit.
Taste - much more dried fruit this time, treacle and very dark chocolate.
Palate - medium to full bodied and long sweet fruits finishing with roast on the finish.
Overall - lovely stuff.
Appearance - opaque black and a thin tan head.
Nose - earthy, chocolate and an edge of dried fruit.
Taste - much more dried fruit this time, treacle and very dark chocolate.
Palate - medium to full bodied and long sweet fruits finishing with roast on the finish.
Overall - lovely stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Dec 2025
at 15:22
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
can at home ...dark black ..thin tan lacing ..soft sweet earthy chocolate roast malts ...dark sweet chocolate roast ...dark chocolate roast malts ...Light fruit and earthy ..nothing exciting but im liking it
Tried
on 08 Dec 2025
at 15:18
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can thanks to Stuu666. Pours dark brown with a thin tan head. Aromas of light chocolate and coffee, faint spice. Taste is earthy chocolate, prunes, molasses. Roasty warming finish.
Tried
on 08 Dec 2025
at 15:18
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
440ml can. Pours almost black with a tan head. Aroma dark malts, dark chocolate, treacle, caramel, liquorice. Taste is much the same, rich dark malts, dark chocolate, treacle, liquorice, caramel, roast malt bitterness and warming booze at the end. Medium-full bodied, smooth. Very good effort for their first stout.
Tried
from Can
from Left Field Beer
on 05 Nov 2025
at 21:26
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
23rd October 2025
Keg at CBJ. Opaque dark brown beer, small dark tan head. Smooth palate, semi dry, good fine minerally carbonation on the back end. Rich if, for the style, fairly light bodied dark malts. Estery sweetness, a little dark malt cream. Mellow chocolate. A little spice on the semi dry finish. Alright. Won't live long in the memory.
Keg at CBJ. Opaque dark brown beer, small dark tan head. Smooth palate, semi dry, good fine minerally carbonation on the back end. Rich if, for the style, fairly light bodied dark malts. Estery sweetness, a little dark malt cream. Mellow chocolate. A little spice on the semi dry finish. Alright. Won't live long in the memory.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Oct 2025
at 17:28
6.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
On tap at Craft Beer Junction. Pours nearly black with a tan head. Toasted dark bread and booze on the nose. Flavour has toasted bread, caramel, and a thick chewy toffee character. Very rough and unbalanced; needs a lot of work.
Tried
from Draft
at
Craft Beer Junction
on 20 Oct 2025
at 02:40
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can from Bottle & Stoat in Southampton. Dark and glossy. Foamy beige head shrinks away. Flavourwise it has dark chocolate and a chocolate liqour type thing. Some dark fruit sweetness. As does aroma. Medium bodied. Slick to creamy. Soft-fizzy carbonation.
Tried
from Can
at
Bottle & Stoat
on 21 Sep 2025
at 06:31