8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Sample courtesy of Grumbo, cheers! Aroma is peanut brittle, biscuit, chocolate cake, cocoa powder and vanilla. Not getting a lot of nut on the taste, but that is fine with me. Full bodied, sweet, no carbonation. Just very good.
Tried
on 12 Jan 2025
at 11:05
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can from LCB, consumed 6 months still in date. Misty gold with thin white head, some retention. Aroma has that lemon, lime, grapefruit and pine - quite punchy. Taste follows - its citric, pine noted, easy drinking with lots of fine carbonation. Very sessionable which I like.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:08
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can from LCB, 5 months still in date. Misted gold with small white top, some retention. Aroma of honey, biscuit, very light pale malt and hops. Honeycomb really does come though in the flavour, some biscoff, pale malt. Light bodied but is quite slick and crisp. Modest bitterness. Quite moreish although it does irk slightly that a lot of flavoured pales tone down the hops significantly rather than try and find hops that compliment the adjunct.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:08
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from Beer52. Pours nicely black with small beige head. The dry hopping hits the nose first - picking up citrus and mint followed by a roastiness. Taste of stone fruits, tangerine, mint, roasted malt, long bitterness. Light to medium bodied, zingy carbonation. Far too hoppy to be classified as a stout by the brewery - this is more of a Black IPA which I'm very happy with as I haven't had one for a while. Very enjoyable.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:05
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Keg at the Stranger's Tavern just before the river in the norther part of Norwich city centre not too far away from some of the historic buildings found along it. Hazy golden with a head. Easy session although slightly weak for it. Mild sweet and sugary tropical fruit is available here.
Tried
from Draft
at
Strangers Tavern
on 26 Dec 2024
at 08:27
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can from Seven Brothers Beer House, Media City. Purple-pink in colour. Low-sourness sour, but quite a low red berry character and flavour too despite an appearance that would suggest otherwise.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Dec 2024
at 08:26
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours very dark brown - black, tan head A - chocolate milky coffee F - dark malts, toffee followed by chocolate and a slight caramel aftertaste silky smooth body lighter body than some stouts but its easy drinking and not bad at all
Tried
on 20 Dec 2024
at 20:48
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle in the cottage. Pours black, nose is chocolate, vanilla, coconut, little soapy, taste is similar, floral.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Nov 2024
at 18:36
6/10
Tried
from Can
on 30 Nov 2024
at 14:00
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at The Star & Garter, Bromley. Black pour with a beige head. Nose is Crunchie bar, toffee, cappuccino, cocoa, vanilla. Taste is all of the above. Smooth sweet brew.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Nov 2024
at 09:21