5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at Pikkulintu, Helsinki. Colour is clear orange with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Bitterness, sweetness, some hops and malts.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Apr 2013
at 08:56
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
20th February 2013
Chelmsford Winter Beer Festival in KEGS! Opaque dark brown beer, decent bubbly pale tan head. Palate is light and dry. Dry floral notes. Dry cinnamon. Sweet dried fruits, orange oils. Finishes dry with a modicum of malt. Typically over spiced Christmas beer and too dry as well but didn’t hate it.
Chelmsford Winter Beer Festival in KEGS! Opaque dark brown beer, decent bubbly pale tan head. Palate is light and dry. Dry floral notes. Dry cinnamon. Sweet dried fruits, orange oils. Finishes dry with a modicum of malt. Typically over spiced Christmas beer and too dry as well but didn’t hate it.
Tried
on 16 Mar 2013
at 05:40
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at Angleterre, Helsinki. Colour is almost black with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Chocolate, coffee, dark fruits and roasted malts. Quite salty and very dry.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Mar 2013
at 05:35
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask @ Angleterre, Helsinki
Pours pitch black with a small bubbly head. Aroma of roasty malts, mint notes, hints of licorice and anise. Taste is smooth, mildly roasty with a lot of salty licorice, tar, hints of wood, mint and anise. Smooth and mildly spicy finish with notes of roastiness, licorice and mint. A bit unbalanced and strange, couldn’t really find the bourbon here.
Pours pitch black with a small bubbly head. Aroma of roasty malts, mint notes, hints of licorice and anise. Taste is smooth, mildly roasty with a lot of salty licorice, tar, hints of wood, mint and anise. Smooth and mildly spicy finish with notes of roastiness, licorice and mint. A bit unbalanced and strange, couldn’t really find the bourbon here.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Mar 2013
at 12:27
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask gravity at CAMRA Chelmsford Winter Beer Festival. Black with a good head. Thick. Chocolate, coffee, fruit and spiced (cinnamon) aroma. Very nice.
Tried
from Cask
on 23 Feb 2013
at 01:15
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
(Cask at Kuikka, 20130220) The beer poured black. Its head was small, lightly brown, bubbly and long lasting. Aroma had vanilla, roasted malts and chocolate. Palate was medium bodied with low carbonation. Flavours were vanilla, clove, allspice, sweetness, roasted malts, hops and bitterness. Aftertaste had cough mixture, burnt malts and bitterness. Aroma was pleasant but the taste was initially weird and eventually quite bad.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Feb 2013
at 06:54
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Picked up at bar 3 NWAF, handpulled cask, half shared with Finn. Nice to look at with a deep, amber-gold body, no head, shiny surface. Smooth grapefruit nose added by dried fruits. Grapefruit and fresh apricot together with nut-like malts. Rounded, half-dry bitter finish. Tasty Brit bitter (Manchester, 24.01.2013).
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Feb 2013
at 12:01
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask at the Guide Dog, Southampton. Deep chocolate brown in colour with a loose beige head; soft, chocolate malt aroma; rich in the mouth, with dry, deeply roasted malts, and some sweet boozy fruit; the finish is warming and woody, with a definite spirity edge. This is rather good.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Jan 2013
at 13:14
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the William Webb Ellis (JDW), Twickenham - 12/01/13. Mid black with a good tan head that retains well. Decent lacing ensues. Nose is roast malts, chocolate, vanilla, molasses. Taste comprises roast malts, dark sugars, dark fruits evident, chocolate, molasses. Medium bodied with a slightly oily texture, moderate carbonation, dry finish. Decent - I enjoyed this one!
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Jan 2013
at 12:37
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask (Guide Dog, Southampton) - Black in colour. Plain chocolate, coffee and roasted malt in the aroma. Roasted taste with notes of liquorice, roasted malt, coffee and plain chocolate. The bourbon notes are subtle and not really that noticeable to me.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Jan 2013
at 08:28