About
Established in 1995 in Milton Regis, Sittingbourne, moved to Grafty Green, Maidstone in 2001. Sold to the ancient Whitstable Oyster Fishery Company in 2003, becoming Whitstable Brewery.
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Black, creamy, but no real head. Roasty aroma with hints of sugars. Medium roasty and chocolatey flavor. A smoked quality and some bitterness emerge later in the flavor, which I guess makes it good for having with seafood. A decent sweet stout, but not a great one.
Tried
on 28 Mar 2003
at 20:02
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
A black beer with a dark brown head - that disappears extremely fast (the fastest I've seen). Second to none aroma - slight hints of smoke. The flavor is strictly opposite. It's smooth with powerful notes of tar, smoke, and rope to start of, then a little thin in the middle (for a stout), but it ends on a smoked dry bitterness. A great stout.
Tried
on 14 Mar 2003
at 11:08
7/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Flat looking beer with a very very deep coffee aroma. The flavour is very bitter coffee but with very little else which was a disappointment. A pleasant enough beer but not as good as the Irish stout's.
Tried
on 26 Dec 2002
at 15:23
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Nose like a tropical fruit basket - rambutan, winter melon, mango and passion fruit; the palate is appetizingly hoppy with more tropical fruit notes alongside woody flavours and toasty malt.
Tried
on 30 Apr 2001
at 10:23