Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Can. Dark brown. Cocoa nose. Slightly thin. Some caramel and milk alongside a lot of dark choc. Works.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can. Black with a cm of tan head. Aroma of chocolate, roast, biscuit, caramel syrup. 7+ Fair bit of body but it's just short of syrupy. Not as sweet as expected (maybe at 9C it's colder than I would have normally gone for, but it seems about right) with bitter chocolate, some roast and salt as well as bitterness to balance. Just seems lighter and less wearing on the palate than these things often do. Noice sloice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can. Dark brown. Toffee and fudge nose. Lush dessert flavours abound. Caramel, some choc, biscuit malts and a little salt makes for a sweet (but not too sweet) glass'o'fun. Let it warm to really relish. Think I'll buy some more.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can bought at Beermash in February 2020. Almost black with a small head. Aroma and taste of coffee, malt and some chocolate. Kind of soft and easy to drink. A decent one.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
From a 375ml can on 4/5/2020. Pours a mildly cloudy golden with a small head. The nose is sweet and tropical and a touch dank. Flavour wise, it's heavy on tropical and citrus fruit (pineapple, mango, orange) and certainly on the sweeter side of things. There's a mild slightly spicy bitterness at the back that provides sufficient counter. Full bodied with a slightly slick mouthfeel, with moderate carbonation. Really solid and enjoyable, if falling just short of a home run.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Quarantinnie. Deep gold with an inch of white head. Almost opaque. Aroma of jammy apricot, pears, guava, orange, pepper, grass, pineapple. Sweet and fruity with a little hop burn that to an extent is OK because it relieves the sweetness. A few swirls made it seem creamier textured but - whilst good - it's just a bit too heavy for me.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
From a 355ml can on 2/5/2020 (can lists it as 8.2% abv, yet the blurb on the can says 9%). Pours a deep brown with small head. The nose features lots of caramel, toffee and fudge. Tastes very dessertish, as the name would imply - more caramel and toffee, with some milk chocolate, butterscotch and a touch of salt, against a biscuit and mild roasted malt background with a hint of booze. The mouthfeel is slick, the carbonation moderate. Could perhaps have just a touch more to balance out the sweetness but it's still a very enjoyable, rich dessert impy.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can. Pear juice coloured. Nose is pear and pineapple. Tropical punch flavours with a some transient hop burn that doesn't linger. Another in the hybrid NEIPA-WCIPA space...
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours very dark brown with a small head.Nose shows chocolate, heavy caramel, popcorn notes, roasted malt.Flavours include more caramel and chocolate, a bit of salt and some roasted malt.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours hazy gold with a lasting small creamy head.Nose shows lychee, peach, pear, passion fruit, pineapple, mango and clean malt.Flavours include more pear and lychee, some resinous and spicy hops, a bit of brash booze and petrol-like new world hop notes, followed by a fair whack of clean malt sweetness.