8/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 9.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
Cask at Shrewsbury Arms, Stafford. Pours a very dark reddish-brown with a sizable foamy cream head and good lacing. There’s malts and chocolate in the aroma. In the mouth it is basically sweet, but with a little added bitterness. Main flavours are a deep rich maltiness and some dark fruits and lactose. Plenty of other tastes come through eventually to some degree – coffee, gingerbread, spice and plums. Finish is somewhat sweet and slightly fruity. This is rather nice !
Tried
from Cask
at
Shrewsbury Arms
on 20 Nov 2025
at 14:20
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Queens Head, Stourbridge. Pours pale gold with a small head. Aroma is light tropical fruit, straw and banana. Taste has straw throughout with a touch of lemon. Bitter finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Nov 2025
at 20:29
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Amber gold with a frothy / creamy off-white head and a sweet fruity aroma. Soft and a touch creamy, sweet fruity notes, a touch of citrus bitterness with delicate biscuit malt underneath, finishes dry and a little bitter.
Tried
from Cask
at
Prince of Wales
on 12 Nov 2025
at 17:30
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Pale gold with a frothy white head and a tangerine aroma. Smooth and clean, slightly tart citrus bitterness up front, softens and levels out to finish dry and a touch bitter, soft biscuit malt lurking underneath it all.
Tried
from Cask
at
Salopian Bar
on 08 Nov 2025
at 12:20
6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Victorian Craft Beer Cafe Back In Black Beer Festival 2025, Beer#8. All black and a gaseous dark-malty beer, quite sweet in this respect too, but not overly so in general terms. Most booziest in aroma, but not very. Decent body. Fine ale but without portfolio really.
Tried
from Cask
at
Victorian Craft Beer Cafe
on 07 Nov 2025
at 18:24
7/10
Some berry fruit.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Nov 2025
at 14:23
6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Cask at Shrewsbury Arms, Stafford. Pours golden yellow with a small foamy almost white head and good lacing. There’s citrus, summer fruits and malts in the aroma. In the mouth it behaves somewhat strangely. It starts off quite sweet and juicy with a creamy texture, and flavours of malts, honey, lime and stone fruits. Then after a while some bitterness and floral hops come through and build until they dominate. Finish is slightly dry. A bit unusual but this is quite decent.
Tried
from Cask
at
Shrewsbury Arms
on 03 Nov 2025
at 15:40
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Bridge, Kingswinford. Pours pale gold with a large head. Aroma is sweet tropical fruit juice. Taste has sweet tropical fruit with a touch of straw and yoghurt.
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Nov 2025
at 16:25
7.5/10
Draft at the strait and narrow. Black colour with a tan head. Aroma and taste are chocolate bitter and slight cherry. Medium body.
Tried
from Draft
at
Strait And Narrow
on 30 Oct 2025
at 15:21
7/10
Draft at the Cardinals Hat. Lincoln. Slightly hazed, pale yellow golden colour with a white head. Aroma and taste are lemon and citrus, light body.
Tried
from Draft
at
The Cardinals Hat
on 30 Oct 2025
at 12:35