The Cask
RavenBeer in Baltimore, Maryland, United States 🇺🇸
Bock - Doppelbock Series|
Score
7.20
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The Cask, named for the Poe short story The Cask of Amontillado, is a dark, smooth, malty, full-bodied & robust beer with toasty malt, toffee notes that one expects from a barrel aged beer (but it is not) and warms the insides from its 8% abv. Best when served in a snifter glass.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Pours dark unto tulip glass. Malts some plum and other dark fruit. Pretty well done dB.
Tried
on 20 May 2025
at 01:24
8/10
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Tried
on 13 Dec 2024
at 16:51
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 4
Draft at Main St Bottle Shop in Rock Hill. Confusingly called Edgar Allen Poe the Cask on Untappd. More confusingly stated there to be brewed at Baltimore Washington Beer Works, which Ratebeer thinks is in Hamburg Germany. Whatever. I hope this review is in the right place. Dark clear brown. Aroma of licorice and herbs. Taste is herbal spice and roast. Weird
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Oct 2018
at 20:47
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle @ home. Clear dark amber to amber-brown color, average to medium sized off-white to beige head that lasts for quite a while. Aroma is malts, dark dried fruits, raisins. Taste malts, raisins, dark fruits, dried fruits, some caramel notes, dark malts, a touch of brown candy sugar. Decent to medium body and carbonation. Quite nice, quite solid. I like it, very well executed imo.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Oct 2018
at 20:08
7/10
Dark brown bod sml tan head. Malty toffee bready arma. Malty toffee bready flav. Med full bod mod carb. 7/4/7/3/13 3.4
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2018
at 20:59
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Dark brown with quick fading head. Aroma and flavour have lots of sweet malts and dried fruit like raisins. Also some milk chocolate and caramel. It's not too sweet though.
Tried
on 21 May 2018
at 19:09
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Dark caramel in color with a shirt head. Brown sugar, toasted malts, caramel, earth, and pleasant hops on the side. Finish is sweet with light bitterness. Medium bodied. Very nice.
Tried
on 15 Feb 2018
at 01:47
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
C: Fast gone cream-coloured head over deep dark cola-coloured beer. 4/5 N: Sweet, bready, liquorice, parsley, candi syrup. 6/10 T: More dark bread, liquorice, leafy; much less sweet than the nose suggested, however, partly thanks to a fine CO²-induced acidity. Breadcrust, light roast. Nice balance! 7/10 MF: Medium bodied at best, spritzy carbonation. Served cold, almost refreshing. 3/5 O: Not too sweet Doppelbock, good. But if they wanted really to get in the Poe spirit, instead of just wordplay, why not age it in an Amontillado cask for real? 14/20
Tried
from Can
on 04 Jan 2018
at 04:20
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours hazy dark copper brown with stable tan head. Clear aroma of pumpkin, malt and yeast, with fruity notes and touches of spice. Sourish flavour of pumpkin, with sweetish notes of malt, yeast and barrel. Hints of hops and vanilla. Acidic and estery aftertaste. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2017
at 08:04
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Confusing name but draft at Peabody. Dark brown color. No head on this. Aroma is malt syrup, earthy and no hops. Mouthfeel is slightly undercarbonated. Sweet sryup, not big and not very lagery.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Apr 2017
at 13:07