7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
24/6/2024. Bottle bought at the Brewery. As Onyx Dragon. Pours clear mahogany brown with a small beige head. Aroma is roasted malts, dark chocolate, caramel, coffee, ashy, dark fruit notes. Moderate sweetness, moderate roasted bitterness. Good body for its 4.0%, quite smooth, average to soft carbonation. Dry roasted finish. Best of the Sandstone beers. Label now describes it as an Outstanding Black Welsh ‘Stout’. It’s pretty decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jun 2024
at 17:49
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
24/6/2024. Bottle bought at the Brewery. Pours very slightly hazy orange gold with a small bubbly white head. Aroma is sweet malts, grain, straw, citrus. Medium sweetness, moderate bitterness, touch tart. Moderate body, oily watery, average carbonation. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jun 2024
at 17:49
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
24/6/2024. Bottle bought at the Brewery. Pours clear bright copper amber with a small frothy white head. Aroma is malty, caramel, fruity, citrus, straw, light spiced edge. Moderate sweetness, bitterness and body. Average to soft carbonation. Nice subtle bitterness to finish. Enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jun 2024
at 17:49
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Cask at Crown Hotel, Nantwich. Pours almost black with a small foamy beige head and good lacing. There’s a deady roma of roast malts and lactose plus some hints of alcoholic strength. In the mouth it is sweet, creamy and velvety smooth. Cream is the main flavour with whiskey and traces of liquorice, marshmallow and (after a while) dark fruits. Finish is sweet, creamy - and somewhat boozy ! This is simply gorgeous – easily superior to any other Sandstone beer I’ve ever had. [ I had it at Crewe beer festival as well, but couldn’t rate it because I was working behind the bar ! ]
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Oct 2023
at 21:11
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the Nottingham Beer Festival 2023. Off black colour with a white head. Aroma and taste are creamy and melty sweet. Medium body.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Oct 2023
at 14:49
08/06/2016. TELFORDS WAREHOUSE, Canal Basin, Tower Wharf, Raymond Street, CHESTER, Cheshire, England
Tried
from Can
on 09 Mar 2023
at 11:20
04/08/2022. CASK BAR, 1-2 Andrew Place, NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME, Staffordshire, England
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Mar 2023
at 11:18
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask @ Fox & Goose, Hebden Bridge. Golden with a creamy-frothy head. Light tasting grainy-hoppy flavoured ale.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Jul 2022
at 16:49
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
On tap at Ebenezers, Crewe. Served far too cold, so had to wait for it to warm up before I could taste or detect any aroma ! Anyways, poured almost black with no head. Eventually got some lactose and dandelion and burdock in the aroma. In the mouth the texture was rather watery. Lactose was the first flavour to appear followed by dark fruits and eventually traces of roast malts. Peanut butter can be detected buried deep in the mix – but could easily be missed. This beer is bland and nondescript.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Dec 2021
at 22:45
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Keg at Ebeneezers, Nantwich, 23/03/19. Amber pour with an off white covering. Nose is biscuit, earthy fruits, toasted grains. Taste comprises caramel, brown bread, dusty fruits, straw. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with light dusty hop notes. Average fayre.
Tried
on 11 Jun 2019
at 09:59