7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
KeyKeg at 2017 Cambridge Beer Festival. Dark brown with a hint of purple. Small amount of khaki head. Strong coffee and dark cooking chocolate in the aroma. Taste, wow. It is as sweet as love. A strongly sugared Cuban coffee with well-hidden booze. The finish is a trifle more alcoholic, and I feel the strength in my gut when I swallow. Slick creamy body. It is a gorgeous coffee stout with near-perfect balance.
Tried
on 24 May 2017
at 05:40
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Gravity cask at Cambridge Beer Festival 2017. Dark brown, bordering on black. Bubbles of tan head. Coffee, coffee, charcoal and coffee in the aroma. Sweet tastwith fudge, cortadito, some yeast extract. Finish is notably more bitter and the body is slick and oily. It’s a good cask imperial stout.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 May 2017
at 17:01
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask (gravity) @ NBF 2015 [ The 40th. Nottingham Beer Festival (The 8th Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival) ], Nottingham Castle, Friar Lane, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 6EB. [ As Bexar County / Three Blind Mice Desalmada ].Clear medium red colour with a average, frothy - fizzy and open, fair lacing, mostly diminishing - lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, beetroot, light to moderate hoppy. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, fruity, sweet malt, beetroot. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20151009] 5-3-6-3-11
Tried
from Cask
on 02 May 2017
at 02:49
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Cask at the Reading Beerfest, although not listed in the festival programme. Black with a thin? tan head. Chocolate and coffee flavours throughout. Exceptionally smooth and very easy to drink - dangerously so, you wouldn’t know how strong it was. Maybe lacks a bit of depth compared to some impys but nevertheless it’s a very nice stout.
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Apr 2017
at 14:15
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask at the Reading Beerfest. Brown-black in hue, with a negligible head. A touch of toasty choc at first then very obvious and lightly tart raspberry before smooth creamy vanilla kicks in. They’ve definitely got the neapolitan ice cream thing licked here. However the hint of roasted malt and the light raspberry sourness stop it being too sweet. Although it’s definitely a novelty beer, it’s tasty, well-balanced, unusual and very drinkable - I thoroughly enjoyed it. Oddly the friendly old CAMRA fellow who served me insisted that the main flavour I should be tasting was coconut - definitely raspberry and cream I thought.
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Apr 2017
at 13:32
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (gravity) @ 33th Pigs Ear Beer and Cider Festival 2016, at The Round Chapel in Hackney, London, England. [ As Bexar County Go All The Way ].Clear dark black brown color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, dark malt, roasted, dark chocolate, berry - fruity - rapsberry. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a long duration, berry - fruity, rapsberry, dark malt, fruity malt, roasted, chocolate, light blackcurrant - raspberry tart. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20161129] 7-4-7-3-14
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Apr 2017
at 03:10
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (gravity) @ NBF 2015 [ The 40th. Nottingham Beer Festival (The 8th Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival) ], Nottingham Castle, Friar Lane, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 6EB. [ As Bexar County Poquito Pequeño ].Clear medium orange yellow color with a average, frothy - fizzy and open, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, moderate hoppy, citrus, fruity, light UK yeast. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, citrus, fryity, zesty, pale malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20151008] 6-3-7-3-14
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Feb 2017
at 02:02
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at Cambridge Winter Beer Festival, Friday 20th January 2017. Lots of sourness on the nose, lactose. Hazy, murky brown, nice some spiciness, its ok, it’s a tad gimmicky. A6 A2 T6 P3 Ov11 2.9
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Jan 2017
at 07:02
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Gravity cask at the 2017 Cambridge Winter Ales Festival. Dark brown with a tiny bit of khaki head. Aroma of soy and cooking chocolate. Beef OXO cubes. Hints of slate and liquorice. Bittersweet chalky taste with just a touch of sour. The finish is a wall of dry, suitably for the style. Thin body with cacao nibs in the aftertaste. A decent stout.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Jan 2017
at 03:55
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Gravity cask at Cambridge National Winter Ales Festival 2017. Mid- to dark brown, translucent with a very loose beige head. Sour chocolate milk aroma with mothballs and a hint of strawberry yoghurt. Taste starts as a sweet/sour interplay with spice, vanilla bean (well done, I got all of the Neapolitan flavours) and a slight eggy whiff. Thin flat body, although the the strawberry shortcake finish made up for that. Verdict: extremely well-made, so I’ll forgive it for being a bit too clever for its own good.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Jan 2017
at 17:27