Batemans Blackbeerd

Formerly brewed at Batemans
Style: Bitter
Skegness, England

black coloured , with a sour nose, flavour was maly and a little sour, didnt take to it at all

Cask Handpump at the Union Rooms, Newcastle (JDW) 31/10/2005. Black and stout like in appearence but with the smoothness of a mild. Plenty of berry fruits with some sweetness whisky hints and roast in the finish.

Good beer, althoug a little sour, it was mor elike a stout, I have been founding this kind of beer in Glagsow a lot.

This is a strange beer. Pours almost like a stout, with rich brown creamy head however disappears and reveles a ruby liquid. Aroma is seriously minimal with some lightly sour malts. Taste is mmm, what is goign on here, this is like a brown ale with soem sourness, lacking somewhat in flavour but the sort of red wine and a touch of vinigar give it character. Im wondering if this keg is slightlky off but i only tapped it 2 days ago so it should be fine, maybe have to try it again further through the keg.

Cask conditioned @ Giddy bridge (JDW), Soton. Blackberries and light malt. Fruity and vinous witha zingy finish. Thin with a hidden ’damp’ feel. Appeared and drank like a dark mild.

Cask. Black/reddish beer with a sour and watery flavour and a vinous and very mild aroma. Overall quite a watery beer.

Cask handpull at County Hotel, JDW, Ashford. Obviously now out of retirement and part of the JDW Autumn Beer Festival. Black beer, thin lasting tight dark beige head. Milky dark roasted malts and some hop aroma. Fairly full in mouth with grainy roastedness on finish and good bitterness that tingles the tongue. Nice dark beer

Cask Conditioned at The Falkland Arms, Gt. Tew, Oxon. Dark brown beer with beige head. Looks good, but this is mainly a malt overdose, sweet and chocolate maltiness, some nut, some fruit. An attempt at a finish, but most of the flavours lose their impact.