About
Ashford-based Low Key Barrel Project specialise in barrel aged beers. Producing beer in beautifully waxed 375ml bottles and specialising in big, aggressive beers from impy stouts right through to heavily adjuncted barley wines, Low Key brew anything but low key beer.
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Panda courtesy of Theydon_Bois, cheers Colin! Black colour, brown foam head and aroma of chocolate, cherry, cake, vanilla. Taste is sweet, dark malty, chocolately, tonka bean, with cherry, vanilla, caramel, toffee, and spicy earthy bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, chocolatey roasty nutty bitter finish. Nicely drinkable.
Tried
on 13 Sep 2026
at 16:23
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can at home. Pours black, nose is chocolate, hazelnut, coffee, vanilla, honey, taste is bitter chocolate, coffee, roasted, nutty, sweet, creamy. 8/9/9/8/8
Tried
on 07 Sep 2026
at 07:03
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can at home, from HOTM online, 29/08/2026.
Pitch black topped with a khaki cap that thins to a swirl.
Nose is chocolate, perfume, dark malts, dried red berries.
Taste comprises modest tonka, cherry jam, dark malts, chocolate shavings, brown sugar melt.
Full bodied, fine carbonation, drying close spiked with a balanced boost.
Okay impy if a touch sweet for my liking.
Pitch black topped with a khaki cap that thins to a swirl.
Nose is chocolate, perfume, dark malts, dried red berries.
Taste comprises modest tonka, cherry jam, dark malts, chocolate shavings, brown sugar melt.
Full bodied, fine carbonation, drying close spiked with a balanced boost.
Okay impy if a touch sweet for my liking.
Tried
on 29 Aug 2026
at 14:21
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Что то не помню особо чем мне зашёл этот стаут, но он был одним из лучших по факту. Помню хорошо ощущался тирамису, без химозы и тд.
Tried
on 28 Aug 2026
at 01:21
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Tried
on 28 Aug 2026
at 00:12
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pitch black colour with small beige head.Aroma is sweet with flavour of candy marshmallow and chocolate mild sweet warming candy bar note mild and well balanced but to sweet.
Tried
from Draft
at
Taphouse
on 24 Jul 2026
at 14:58
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
New English brewery ✅ smooth sweet chocolatey prominence with some nicely judged and balanced berry fruity accents in play, light florals, some caramel and fudge like malty sweetness, smooth berry accented creamy chocolate malty finish.
Tried
from Draft
at
Åben Aarhus
on 19 Jul 2026
at 13:30
7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can Wee Vault 2026-07-17 Uddingston
AR: sweet chocolate, strawberry, Tonka,
AP: dark brown , wee lid
F: sweet chocolate, strawberry, Tonka, roasted hazelnuts, cherries
AR: sweet chocolate, strawberry, Tonka,
AP: dark brown , wee lid
F: sweet chocolate, strawberry, Tonka, roasted hazelnuts, cherries
Tried
from Can
at
Wee Vault
on 17 Jul 2026
at 21:19
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can from Wee Vault 2026-07-17 Uddingston
AR: Sweet pastery Strawberry milk, milk chocolate
AP: dark brown thick, no head
F: Sweet pastery Strawberry milk, milk chocolate
AR: Sweet pastery Strawberry milk, milk chocolate
AP: dark brown thick, no head
F: Sweet pastery Strawberry milk, milk chocolate
Tried
from Can
at
Wee Vault
on 17 Jul 2026
at 16:14
8.5/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 8
Keg Wee Vault 2026-07-16 Edinburgh
AR: almond nutty, nougat, sweet milk chocolate,
AP: dark brown, wee dark brown lid
F: almond nutty, nougat, sweet milk chocolate,
AR: almond nutty, nougat, sweet milk chocolate,
AP: dark brown, wee dark brown lid
F: almond nutty, nougat, sweet milk chocolate,
Tried
from Draft
at
Wee Vault
on 17 Jul 2026
at 11:50