6.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Kwg at Old Bank House, Tamworth. Clear gold. Thick foam white head. Light-medium bitter. Some spice. A low key fruit streak. Light. Thin. Soft-fizzy carbonation. Long dry finish. Bland.

7.3

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

6.5

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

[Cask at the Basingstoke Beer Festival.] An amber pour with a tight cream head; malty aroma with some hedgerow hops; then a classic bitter taste with some biscuity malts.

7

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Keg at Society, Bingohame, 05/09/2025.
Golden topped with an off white cap that thins to a swirl.
Nose is pale malts, straw, grains, light herb, lemon rind.
Taste comprises pale and bready malts, grass, lemon peel, straw.
Medium bodied, light spritzy carbonation, semi drying close.
Decent easy going logger-bier.

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

3rd September 2025
Can. Near clear dark brown beer, small pale tan head. Airy palate, mildly dry, decent fine minerally carbonation. Smooth but light bodied dark malts, slightly watery in flavour but, there is still good dark chocolate and caramel cream here. Fairly rich coffee but, only with a light presence, comes through on the back end. Airy and semi dry finish. Tasty but lacking richness and body for me.

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Flavoured stout by this well-established craft brewery in West Yorkshire; can from the Marks & Spencer in Union Square, Aberdeen. Yellowish beige, medium sized, ‘Brugse kant’-like lacing, firm head over a very dark chocolate brown robe – as good as black, but still visibly dark brown, if you get my drift. Aroma of sticky toffee pudding, chocolate crisps, brownies soaked in liqueur, fig compote, praliné, Belgian chocolates, blueberry crumble, pear syrup, actual blueberries somewhere, very vague hints of miso and beef olives. Densely sweet onset yet not nowhere as sweet and sticky as feared, fruity touches of blueberry, pear and fresh fig, softly carbonated with very full, rounded mouthfeel – creamy alright, but not in a lactose-induced way. Layers of thick toffee, Macadamia nuttiness, brown bread dough and evidently dark chocolate follow, thoroughly toffeeish yet managing to keep avoiding exaggerated sweetness – ending supple and sweet but not sticky, with a roasty coffeeish element for balance, a herbal hop note and warming to eventually lightly astringent, whisky-like alcohol. This is liquid sticky toffee pudding, but without the overt stickiness – in fact it proved far less sweet than the average pastrys stout today and did not show a trace of that overexposed lactose. This is one flavoured stout I can hugely appreciate, for being both restrained and utterly convincing at once.

7.4

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

hazy pale yellow colour, huge, dense eru-ish off-white head; aroma of fruity-estery,some green tea, grassy and citrusy notes; taste has similar notes to the aroma with a good amount of hoppy bitterness and some marmalade; good one

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

7.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8