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Brewing bold beers from our hilltop in Hebden Bridge and pouring punchy pints from our very own taprooms. We’re resolutely in the business of setting standards, not following trends.
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
6/XI/25 - on tap @ DOK Brewing (Gent), BB: n/a (2025-1097)
Clear dark brown beer, practically no head. Aroma: lots of caramel, butter scotch, mocha, sweet impression, a hint of chocolate, nice! MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: lots of caramel, a bit of a sourish touch next to all the sweetness, quite some caramel, some vanilla, cocoa powder. Aftertaste: dark caramel, some chocolate, a hint of vanilla, bitter, somewhat sourish in the finish, coffee notes, good, but where’s my matcha?
Clear dark brown beer, practically no head. Aroma: lots of caramel, butter scotch, mocha, sweet impression, a hint of chocolate, nice! MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: lots of caramel, a bit of a sourish touch next to all the sweetness, quite some caramel, some vanilla, cocoa powder. Aftertaste: dark caramel, some chocolate, a hint of vanilla, bitter, somewhat sourish in the finish, coffee notes, good, but where’s my matcha?
Tried
from Draft
at
Dok Brewing Company
on 06 Nov 2025
at 20:30
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Victorian Craft Beer Cafe Back In Black Beer Festival 2025, Beer#2. Not quite black, this new house beer for them, but a very steady porter with good smooth dark malts.
Tried
from Cask
at
Victorian Craft Beer Cafe
on 06 Nov 2025
at 14:33
6.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Cask at Curious Gnome, Chester. Pours almost black with a small foamy tan head and good lacing. The aroma is mainly roasted malts with some hints of honey. In the mouth it is quite sweet, but with a little underlying bitterness. Flavour has roasted malts, chocolate and cocoa with hints of liquorice and vanilla coming later. A touch of fruitiness in the finish. This is decent.
Tried
from Cask
at
Cavern of the Curious Gnome
on 06 Nov 2025
at 13:45
5.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 7
Overall 5
Can from Tesco, Reading. I'm not a fan of white stouts, but bought this nevertheless to boost my numbers for the style - my god, the hardships we raters have go through! This one's a crystal-clear deep gold colour with a lasting white head. Rather a musty aroma, with hints of raspberry. Tastes of dried raspberries, raspberry pips and cheap white chocolate. The mustyness returns as some elderly lemons limp into view. The mouthfeel is decent - quite a full body, although the fizz does detract from it a little. Despite a light bitterness in the finish, it's definitely a bit too sweet. White chocolate muffins arrived in the aftertaste - specifically the slightly browned and toasty white chocolate chips sticking out of the top of the muffin. Overall - it's not too bad, but I still didn't really enjoy it and it didn't change my opinion that white stouts are a daft marketing gimmick that should never have made it further than the brainstorming session flipchart.
Tried
from Can
from
Tesco Supermarket (Various locations)
on 05 Nov 2025
at 13:03
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Enid Blyton wrote a story about a hollow tree. This hollow tree is hazy yellow-gold in appearance. It feels a little weak for this brewery, but it isn't, it's just a citrus fruity session beer, although its aftertaste is fairly bland and dryish.
Tried
from Draft
at
Vocation & Co. - Hebden Bridge (Vocation)
on 03 Nov 2025
at 05:35
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
440ml can from M&S Broadstairs. Pours very dark / black with a deep tan head. Aroma of unctious caramel and rich chocolate dessert. Flavour profile continues in this vein, I've always liked a nice caramel stout and this presents that nice smooth full bodied character well. However, it is labelled a caramel cookie chocolate stout, and there are no cookie notes at all, so have marked down slightly for that.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Nov 2025
at 08:54