5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle 0.5l at home, Tampere. Enjoyed straight from the bottle. Aromas and flavours: Dark fruits, berries, plum, some chocolate and roasted malts. Confusing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2022
at 21:49
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
330ml bottle: BBE August 2022. poured into a Leffe chalice at home on 8th March 2022. Dark brown, red hue in the light, wispy nothingness for a head (might have been over cooled). Fruity, plum nose and taste, figs, malty and nice!
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2022
at 16:07
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at the Dog, Burton on Trent – but have had it several times before in the past. Pours almost black with a small cream head and good lacing. Chocolate and cocoa to the fore in thew aroma, plus some traces of honey. In the mouth it is smooth with a creamy texture. Not surprisingly the main flavours are vanilla and chocolate plus some roasted malts. Finish is quite bitter. Very nice indeed – well balanced.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Mar 2022
at 22:36
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours dark amber/brown - maybe a hint of blue. Aromas of plums and liquorice. Tastes of plums (a lot), dark chocolate, caramell, tart berries - quite enjoyed it.
Tried
on 13 Feb 2022
at 11:09
5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 4
Cask at Butlers Bell, Stafford. Pours a red amber with a small frothy pinkish-white head and good lacing. There’s an obviously false fruoty aroma to this one – like raspberry or cherryade. Starts of well in the mouth with a brief flash of floral hops is followed by a shedload of raspberries. It goes downhill from there though as the raspberries fade out to be replaced by a horrible rough, sticky, metallic flavour – somewhere between bran flakes and cough mixture ! I really didn’t like this all.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Feb 2022
at 00:08
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pours a reddish brown colour with a small frothy beige head. The aroma is fruity, lots of plum, sweet malt and fruitcake. A smooth light sweet taste, stewed plum and sweet malt flavours with subtle chocolate and woody notes. A smooth mellow bitterness and more plum in the finish.
Tried
on 11 Feb 2022
at 10:40
4.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle. Nose is very very plummy, jammy, maybe a little port, hit of blackberry. Taste is plum flavouring, surprisingly bitter, with licorice and a hint of aniseed, strawberry, jammy, blackberry, I really cant find much of the port barrel. Edit: My mistake it's port infused - who knows what that means practically. The basic Plum Porter I thought was very poor and this is not much better. The bottle suggests 'plum flavoring'. Whatever constitutes that syrup (I rather suspect the 'foodie flavours' product), dominates the beer with a thumping, powerful, note, like you would find in a soft drink. The port has no meaningful impact I can find. A fruit beer without fruit in the brewing process, and a short cut to get port flavours without barrel aging. It shows why proper brewers take time to the job properly; this is a genuinely terrible beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Dec 2021
at 20:03
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Cask at Sun Inn, Stafford. Pours a hazy golden yellow with minimal foamy white head, but good lacing. Mushy apples upfront in the aroma, with some corn and a dash of citrus. In the mouth, the initial sensation is a repellant sharp metallic sesation. Thankfully, this softens over time to give some sweetness with pink grapefruit flavour plus some generic citrus. Finish is quite bitter. A typical Titanic pale beer – in that I don’t like it !
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Dec 2021
at 21:40
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Cask at Ship on Gracechurch Street, London, 2nd December 2021. Pours a clear very dark brown. Aroma is sweet malts, liquorice, cocoa. Taste is interesting, sweet, plum comes through, a little cocoa, quite complex. Good and different
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Dec 2021
at 19:53
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Very dark red beer, thick off white head. Rich, fruity aroma. Flavour is fruity, good maltiness, some dry hop and a little warm booziness. Warming and pleasant.
Tried
on 19 Nov 2021
at 22:38