Score
6.97
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Bottle 750ml.Clear dark black brown colour with a large to huge, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, coffee, moderate yeasty, fruity. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, chocolate, dark malt, coffee. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110918]
Bottle 10C. Black with a towering tan head. Aroma of chocolate, toast, nectarines, meadows, coffee. Taste has a hoppy bitter initial bite before roasted flavours poke through with chocolate and some stewed and stone fruits. Astringent coffee finish has some pine. Bitterness lingers. That sounds (to me) like a horrible mess, but it works pretty well:- it’s quite light and the disparate flavours are well-balanced. The price is a lack of depth in the roasted and fruit flavours making it less than fully mouth-filling. I guess that’s very good in a style I’m not convinced I need.