6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
@ Mourne...don’t eat the shellfish there. Quite black with a thick head. Chocolatey and malty aroma. Chocolate, fudgey, a fair bit of acidity makes it finish with an odd combination of attenuated thinness and nitrogen thickness.
Tried
on 28 Mar 2011
at 01:25
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
@ Crown & Glory, Belfast. Brassy amber. Light fruity, curranty aroma maybe with some pears. Light and balanced, with faint yeasty fruitiness and toasty malt character. Pretty drinkable.
Tried
on 28 Mar 2011
at 01:23
3.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
@ White Horse, Saintfield. Light amber. Faint aroma is vaguely malty. Very watery. Quick, perhaps mercifully so.
Tried
on 28 Mar 2011
at 01:22
5.2/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pale straw. Slightly herbal aroma. Crisp hoppiness, herbal and slightly floral. Light body. Refreshing. Good for what it is.
Tried
on 27 Mar 2011
at 02:38
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
@ White Horse, Saintfield. Reddish-amber with pencil-thin artificial-looking head. The aroma is more caramelly. The body is soft, mostly caramelly and finishing with spice and a little bit of acidity. OK keg bitter.
Tried
on 27 Mar 2011
at 02:37
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Reddish dark brown. Fruit nose (coconut, pear, honeydew) with toasty and perhaps somewhat coffeish accents. Mainly fruit taste mixes caramel with light toast. Good ale, somewhat more toasty than most bitters but less nutty than any brown ale...and even if you believe in "Irish Ale" I don’t think you could call it that either. Nice.
Tried
on 20 Mar 2011
at 02:59
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Very dark brown. Thin head. Big oaty, chocolatey aroma. Like chocolate chip cookies. Toasty, breadcrusty palate with fresh chocolate malt. Very good stout, possibly Ireland’s best.
Tried
on 20 Mar 2011
at 02:57
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
a porter? really? id have to disagree with that one. its brown, ill give you that, but nowhere near roasty or toasty enough to be a porter. its very well balanced, very easy to drink, bready in the front, bitter in the finish. some dark fruit, but not too sweet. very enjoyable.
Tried
on 13 Mar 2011
at 07:48
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2010, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.Clear medium yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, straw, light to moderate hoppy, light grass. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, straw, sour straw malt notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100804]
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Jan 2011
at 23:25
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottled at L. Mulligan Grocer, Dublin. Dark brown, small head. Chocolatey nose. Mid dry with clean, rounded mouthfeel and medium body. Roasty and chocolatey with mild grassy spicy hops on top.Mild but growing spicy bitterness. A well balanced chocolatey porter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Oct 2010
at 01:01