Subsidiaries
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Handpull cask at the Real Ale Shack, Warrington. Dark brown, just a touch translucent, with a creamy light tan head. Chocolate malt, yeast extract, ash and a little ground coffee in the aroma. Bitterness in the taste, which is tempered by the chocolatey sweetness. More lingering chalky hop bitterness in the finish with underripe blackberry, caramel and TCP in the aftertaste. As cracking a cask stout as you're likely to find.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Sep 2018
at 13:56
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask @ GBBF 2017. Pours a black color with a small tan head. Has a roasted malty caramel chocolate aroma. Roasted malty caramel and chocolate flavor. Has a roasted malty caramel and chocolate finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Sep 2018
at 13:54
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at GBBF 2018. It pours clear straw yellow with a medium bubbly white head. The aroma is sweet, doughy bread, grassy, straw and cracker. The taste is dry, bitter, grassy, straw, cracker, rich tea biscuit, chalky, minerals with a drying finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Not bad at all.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Aug 2018
at 15:29
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask @ Dockyard, Salford. Extremely dark with a small head. Toffee and caramels make it a flavoursome brew. Fuller-bodied and smooth.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Jun 2018
at 16:55
5/10
Tried
on 02 Jun 2018
at 12:20
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Tried at the Three Horseshoes Waddington. Pale golden colour with a white head. Aroma citrus and peach. Taste light sweet. Light body.
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Mar 2018
at 00:00
8.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 10
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tried at the Three Horseshoes Waddington. Deep chocolate to almost black cooour with a tight tan head. Aroma certainly has fudge and chocolate with roasted malt. Taste is light sweet to mid bittersweet. Full rich and smooth body. Very nice.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Mar 2018
at 00:00
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Cask at the Leicester Beer Festival, 2018. Pours pale gold with a small bubbly white head. Aroma of biscuit, hop, fruit and caramel. Moderate sweetness, medium bitterness. Light body, watery texture, soft carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Mar 2018
at 12:37
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask @ Royal Oak, Halifax. Black with a creamy off-white head. It says chocolate but tastes like vanilla, which is stated in both aroma and taste. It's very tasty despite a small thinness in its texture. Retried with similar effect at the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway Beer Festival 2025, although the chocolate and fudge came across very stated this time.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Mar 2018
at 20:41