7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from one of the supermarkets. Dark reddish brown pour with a huge frothy tan head and heavy carbonation at the initial pour. Big smooth malty aroma with lots of malty caramel notes in the flavour. There is little bitterness in this beer but make no doubt about it, this is an excellent and very tasty stout.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Nov 2012
at 12:48
8/10
Tried
on 25 Oct 2012
at 19:10
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottle from Gordon and MacPhail, Elgin
Golden yellow, clear, frothy white head that dissipates to thin layer, bit of lacing
Aroma - light pale malts, soft grains, some damp hay, dull nose
Taste - light grain malts, hay, dull bit musty hops
Palate - soft carb, thinnish body, bit oily. Finish as main flavour, bit dry, dull
Overall - Below average golden ale, insipid and dull, doesn’t taste fresh...meh meh meh
Golden yellow, clear, frothy white head that dissipates to thin layer, bit of lacing
Aroma - light pale malts, soft grains, some damp hay, dull nose
Taste - light grain malts, hay, dull bit musty hops
Palate - soft carb, thinnish body, bit oily. Finish as main flavour, bit dry, dull
Overall - Below average golden ale, insipid and dull, doesn’t taste fresh...meh meh meh
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Oct 2012
at 19:01
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Sainsburys. Black pour with a tan head. Heavy coffee aroma. Sweet coffee flavour. Given it’s one dimensional angle it was quite a passable brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2012
at 12:57
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
28th Sep 2012: random beer tasting evening, this 500ml bottle was shared with my Son-in-Law. Pours a lovely deep black: on top a thick head of tan coloured foam, this falls away slowly to a thinner but still full covering as the beer level fell. Couldn’t find any ’wild oats’ in the nose or taste: plenty of chocolate like notes though and other malty flavours (coffee for one) to be found in both aroma and taste wise. Thought it might have been a bit richer and creamier: on the thin side for a stout in my opinion. Otherwise a fine beer and I’d love to try a cask conditioned one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Oct 2012
at 02:44
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
33cl bottle from the Sainsbury’s Beer Hunt range. Pitch black with a brief fizz of coffee coloured head; chocolate and coffee aroma; artificial coffee flavour with a touch of vanilla and some red fruit and soused raisins; the finish is thin, over-sweet and rather dry at the same time. Unexciting and disappointing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Oct 2012
at 14:42
5.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
This one just really wasn’t to my taste. I like the smell but not the flavour of coffee and unlike something like Bateman’s Mocha the coffee in this isn’t tempered by anything else really.
Tried
on 01 Oct 2012
at 04:36
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle at home (from Stevenage Sainsburys) - 29/09/12. Mid black in colour with a medium sized coffee head that retains for a while then thins to the edges. Dark malts on the nose, coffee, molasses, chocolate, a little smoke. Sweet tasting beer, lots of sugar, chocolate, espresso and roast malts. Medium bodied with soft carbonation and a sweet finish. Ok - a little too much sweetness and not quite the balance I’d have liked.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Sep 2012
at 09:44
4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
330ml bottle. Pours a very dark brown with no head. Aroma is intense coffee and chocolate, like the coffee chocolates that everyone leaves in a selection box. Taste is bitter coffee to start then more chocolate and coffee on the finish. Flat. Can’t shake the artificial Quality Street taste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Sep 2012
at 15:30
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle shared with Jack and a couple random blokes down at The Kernel, London. Pours dark brown with a creamy beige head. Lovely aroma, all rich coffee, Dunkin’ Donuts coffee, with soft roast. The flavor is another story - it’s not so good: lightly sweet with moderate roast and plastic. Light bodied with fine carbonation. A bit of dryness to finish, more plastic, coffee, soft roast, burnt sugars. Great aroma, poor flavor.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Sep 2012
at 06:08