7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can from RHS Wisley shop, as Thoughtful Forager Chocolate Milk Stout. Aroma has malty chocolate and instant coffee. Creamy edge. Vague sour berries. Dark. Cola brown in the light. Creamy beige head soon develops a bald spot. Initial light creaminess, soon followed by s bitter black coffee and liquorice streak. Smoothed out by the continuing cream. Develops a sour berry tang. In fact the blackberries eventually become the focus. Medium bodied. Creamy.- if watered down. Average-fizzy carbonation. Enjoyable.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Dec 2021
at 19:43
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at Coachmakers Arms, Hanley. Pours almost black with a small pale beige head and good lacing. Lactose and roast malts dominate the nose. In the mouth it is sweet and watery with flavours of roast malts and liquorice. The lactose is still their but muted with cocoa and chocolate hints also bubbling under. Finish is a bit salty. This is a really nice milk stout – the lactose not overdone, and plenty of character.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Sep 2021
at 19:02
6.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Handpull cask at the Salmon, Leicester. Dark brown, translucent. A ring of beige head with generous lacing. Nose gives coffee, chocolate and a little bit of liquorice. Taste is sweet, more liquorice, just a little bit vegetal. Thick body for the ABV with soft carbonation. An above average beer if a little flawed.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Sep 2021
at 17:07
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at Great British Beer Festival 2019 - London. Pours deep brown with a small, creamy tan head. Lightly sweet with notes of dry cocoa, scorched earth. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Drying on the finish, some further sturdy roast, bitter dark chocolate. Alright.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Dec 2020
at 20:13
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at GBBF Winter: Poured a brown with no head. Aroma is sweet malts and cinnamon. Taste is fruit cake and sweet malts.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Mar 2020
at 20:27
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at GBBF Winter: Poured a golden with white bubbles. Aroma is perfume and malts. Taste is grain and malts, some perfume hops.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Mar 2020
at 20:25
6.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Keg, half-pint in Slater's, Stafford on 12th Mar 2020. No head at all, hazy golden orange, looked like cider. Citrus notes in the hoppy nose and taste, lemon flavours ruled the fairly bitter brew from start to finish.
Tried
on 13 Mar 2020
at 10:01
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Third by cask at GBBF Winter, Astbury Bar. Shared with Finn. Clear amber body. Filmy layer, clingy lacing. Modest smell of ripe fruits and mid-sweet malts. Herbal hops added by mild malty sweetness to the taste buds. Ends dry, mid-sweet. Accepted. (Birmingham 04.02.2020).
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Mar 2020
at 07:01
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Third by cask at GBBF Winter, Astbury Bar. Shared with Finn. Decent beige head over a jet black body. Fragile lacing. Moderate spiced dark malty aromas. Chocolate malts with cinnamon and pepper. Ends dry and spicy, slightly roasted. Accepted. (Birmingham 04.02.2020).
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Mar 2020
at 06:49
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
By cask at GBBF Winter, Astbury Bar. Shared with Finn. Hazed golden body, film-type layer, clingy lacing. Promising grapefruit aromas. Zesty citrus drops to the taste buds. Mid-dry fruity bitterness to the finish. Pretty alright. (Birmingham 04.02.2020).
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Mar 2020
at 18:57