7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask at Craft Beer Co, London on 1st June 2012. Fairly clear gold with an off-white non-lacing foam. Rich and intense hoppiness in aroma. Sharply bitter in-mouth with grassy hoppiness. A sharp bitterness lingers in the aftertaste. Engaging texture.
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Jul 2012
at 09:06
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at the Euston Tap, London. Pours clear, yellow-gold with a soft, white cream head. Pretty heavy hop nose with lots of raw grass, hop leaves and ripe grapefruit. Medium to strong sweet flavor with high bitterness, some orange juice, citrus peel, alcohol, rubbing alcohol, grass and earth. Full bodied with fine carbonation. Warm finish with aggressive bitterness, heady alcohol, deep grass, ripe orange, grapefruit, faint toasty sugar. It’s pretty rough in several ways. The hops and booze come on quite strong. This one needs some tweaking.
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Jul 2012
at 03:17
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at Leighton’s Euro Semi-Final tasting. It pours cloudy deep brown, with a bubbly tan head. The nose is chocolate, caramel, pine, treacle and dark tangy fruit. The taste is dark tangy fruit, caramel, citrus pith, pine, resin, charcoal, roasted malt, treacle, bitter chocolate and burnt malt, with a charry, burnt finish. Medium-full body and average carbonation. A solid black IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jun 2012
at 11:20
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Cask at the Craft Beer Co, London. Black pour with a beige head. Meaty old nose. Dark roast coffee and licorice aroma. Full on rich flavour. A splash of coffee and licorice. Very vinous. Quite sweet. Throat burning but in a nice way. One to savour. Good stuff.
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Jun 2012
at 11:35
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
500ml bottle. Pours light gold with a large head. Aroma is faint, bready malt, with a little sherbet lemon and rum. Taste has chocolate rum to start with a bitter cocoa finish. Tropical fruit on the aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jun 2012
at 16:40
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled at 7.5% ABV from Grape & Grind, Bristol. Opaque and near black with a small, tan head. Beer had a heavy and slightly oily body that coated the mouth. Dark chocolate aroma with some pine and a tropical fruits. Flavour had plenty more pine, black coffee, grapefruit and a lingering, dry finish. Very enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jun 2012
at 07:42
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
11th June 2012
Cask at the Craft. Opaque black beer. Little tan head. Light palate, smooth and low carbonation. Immediate sweetness - chocolate, coffee, sweet red berry fruits. The intensity builds up with the beer becoming rich and very tangy. A pinch of salt. Finishes with hop spice.
Cask at the Craft. Opaque black beer. Little tan head. Light palate, smooth and low carbonation. Immediate sweetness - chocolate, coffee, sweet red berry fruits. The intensity builds up with the beer becoming rich and very tangy. A pinch of salt. Finishes with hop spice.
Tried
from Cask
on 23 Jun 2012
at 06:40
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Trafalgar Wines, Brighton. It pours cloudy golden amber, with a thin white head. The nose is resin, spice, sweet tinned fruit and pine. The taste is pine, resin, intense fruitiness, spice, massive alcohol warmth, orange pith and marmalade, with a bitter, alcoholic finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Too boozy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jun 2012
at 03:16
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at Euston Tap, 21st June 2012, Midsummers day, rainy session! Poured a hazy dark red gold. Smells OK, the taste is fairly sweet and thick bodied, hard going drink, my friend did not finish. Not good far better from Arbor
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Jun 2012
at 21:53
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
330ml bottle at 7.5%. Pours jet black with a large head. Aroma is dusty cocoa, grapefruit and a little lemon. Taste is mostly bitter grapefruit with some coffee and cocoa on the aftertaste. Low carbonation but full in the mouth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jun 2012
at 15:07