tderoeck (22711) reviewed St. John's Eccles Stout from 40ft Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Imported from my RateBeer account as 40ft St. John Eccles Stout (by 40ft Brewery):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5
15/VIII/19 - on tap @ DOK Brewing Company (Gent), BB: n/a - (2019-1232)
Clear reddish brown beer, small creamy bit irregular beige head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: soft roast, bit of a sourish impression, some coffee, fruity notes, dark berries. MF: soft carbon, medium to light body. Taste: pretty sourish, rather unpleasant, blackberries and black currants, very roasted, dry, coffee. Aftertaste: sourish, bit astringent, bitter roast, dry finish.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Deepest from 40ft Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
5 July 2019. At Dok Brewing Festival. Cheers to Anke & Ghent beer crew! Thanks to the brewers for sharing this! Hazy black with a lasting, thin, unstable, frothy, beige head. Aroma of milk chocolate, mocha, vanilla, wet wood, candied dates & fig, whisky, macadamia. Taste is medium malty sweet, dates wrapped in chocolate topped with nuts & vanilla, giving a woody touch, bit sourish underneath, developing more bitter tones of (dark) chocolate powder, toast & tea leaves. Dryish, herbal hoppy finish, lingering dark fruits & everlasting chocolate, nicely warming whisky-like alcohol. Full body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Thick, sweet & boozy but balanced and elegant.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed LARGER from 40ft Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
5 July 2019. At Dok Brewing Festival. Cheers to Anke & Ghent beer crew! Hazy golden-orange with a lasting, small, unstable, frothy, off-white head. Aroma of banana, white bread, yeast, honey, ripe apple, pear. Taste is light to medium fruity sweet, banana & apple on a bready-yeasty base, some bitter grass, a spicy touch, vague wheaty sourness leading to a dryish, grassy hoppy & grainy finish, lingering soft banana & bread. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. Clean, correct, yet forgettable.
Leighton (34941) reviewed Sporty Foot from 40ft Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Keg at BrewDog Dalston - London. Pours clear gold with a big, fluffy white head. Quite clean and drinkable, some pale grains, biscuits, lemon rind, nips of grapefruit. Light bodied with average carbonation. Balanced finish. Drinks good.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed St. John's Eccles Stout from 40ft Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Fruit stout made for St. John’s restaurant in London – and we beer enthusiasts are always happy when a ‘serious’ restaurant puts craft beer on the menu (let alone have one made as their house beer). From tap at Dok Brewing Festival. Mousy, pale greyish beige, slowly opening but otherwise stable head on a black beer with thin mahogany edges. Aroma of walnuts, blackberries, coffee grounds, anise or even eucalyptus (cough syrup-like) representing the allspice, cassis, bubblegum, nutmeg, elderberry juice, brown bread. Strangely sour onset due to the added redcurrant, fizzy carb, smooth body; dry ‘hard-caramelly’ base with a bit of a bubblegum-like effect and ongoing redcurrant berry acidity; still ends rounded and soft, dryish with mild earthy yeast effects and a dash of mildly ethereal allspice, yet that streak of sharpish yet refreshing redcurrant sourness continues well into the finish. In effect, adding an astringently sour fruit like redcurrant to a soft, mellow stout has rendered the whole thing sour, but in a refreshing, crisp and focused way; a sour stout in a certain way, but without the painstaking process of bacterial infection, just by adding a sour kind of fruit. Interesting and quite accessible, in all.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Streetweiss from 40ft Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Hefeweizen by this sympathetic London brewery, from tap at Dok Brewing Festival. Snow white, mousy, stable head lacing in shreds over a cloudy straw blonde beer. Aroma of banana candy, banana-flavoured chewing gum, banana milkshake, apricot jam, bread, soap, cloves, straw. Very banana-forward flavour as announced by the aroma, touches of apricot and pineapple as well, soft carb, fluffy and soft, doughy maltiness with soapy wheatiness; the banana effect lingers strongly and ‘bubblegummy’, while a faint grassy note shows up in the end, paired with a dash of clove-like phenols; the sweet banana ester effect remains however dominant. Way too simplistic and banana-candy-forward, this is almost a caricature of an old and noble German beer style, much like many commercial Dutch examples also trying to imitate it.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Deepest from 40ft Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Special, strong (indeed 'imperial') barrel aged edition of 40FT's Deep - there is apparently also a 'Deeper' in between - tasted from a 75 cl bottle of two years old, generously shared by the brewers at Dok Brewing Festival, cheers guys! Mousy, pale yellowish beige, opening, thin head on a jet black beer. Intense nose of hot chocolate sauce made with cognac, coffee liqueur, kahlua, toffee, hot black tea, toasted walnuts, hazelnut oil, whisky, soy sauce, bayleaf, solventy glue-like effects. Sweet, condensed onset, candied dates, light beef stock-like umami accent, soft carb, very thick and oily mouthfeel; indeed profoundly deep, walnutty and bitter-chocolatey 'black' maltiness, sweet and thick with a toasty bitter edge that develops into more mature proportions towards the end, accentuated by drying woody tannins, a huge but non-astringent whisky-coloured alcohol glow and lingering chocolateyness. Light herbal and spicy hop bitter notes, some sugariness and solventy, glueish accents as well, but none of these elements overpowers the tight blend of chocolatey malts and whisky. Beautiful imperial stout the American way, think BCBS, KBS and their likes, very ambitious and well-executed. Among the best beers of the festival even if it was not officially on the menu - heck, this is even among the best English stouts I had in years.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Päle from 40ft Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Modern intended pale ale from this London craft brewer, at Dok Brewing Festival. Membrane-lacing, off-white, mousy, stable head, misty orange-tinged amber robe. Aroma of dry peanuts, dried thyme, straw, camomile, dry white pepper, hard caramel candy, touch of bubblegum. Cleanly fruity onset, bit powdery from the start with a nonetheless smooth, slender mouthfeel, medium carbonated, peanutty and bread-crusty malt body further dried and spiced by ‘greenish’, field-floral and dried citrus peel-like hop bitterness, quite peppery and long-stretched, with a slightly earthy character. This reminds me most of an English style IPA much more than a present-day APA: this is not far removed from IPA the way it was before it shape-shifted into the many colourful things it can be today – a noble, easily drinkable, quenching, very pleasantly old school English ale. Cheers to that, now that merry old England has become completely dominated by New England and other U.S. style IPAs.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed LARGER from 40ft Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Attempted Kölsch by this small London craft brewery, tasted from tap at Dok Brewing Festival. Snow white, mousy, papery lacing, thinnish and bit irregular head on a misty golden beer with vaguely greenish tinge. Aroma of white bread and wheat flour, dried apple peel, unripe pear, camomile, grass. Neutral-ish onset with still some very low unripe pear and green banana sweetishness, medium carbonated, smooth cleanly white-bready and cereally maltiness, straightforward but clearly all-barley, ending in a mildly grassy hop bitterish finish, gently drying and a bit powdery. Very quenching beer, nowhere exaggerated as a typical Kölsch would indeed be, so far among the better attempts at ‘new’ Kölsch outside of the Cologne region in Germany that I had – though I see little use in trying to copy this beer style anywhere else than in Cologne, to be honest.
Tdtm82 (4807) ticked Eccles Stout from 40ft Brewery 6 years ago