Beartown Pandamonium

Brewed by Beartown
Style: Stout
Congleton, England

Cask in the Market Porter. Alround rating: Noteable sweet, loads of blackcurrent character, very fruity, in good conition with fine carbonation but perhaps a bit overly sweet. Good show.

Cask gravity at Kent BF, Canterbury. Very deep ruby colour, with disappearing tan head. Sour, sour vinegar/old ale aroma. Surprisingly good in mouth and the choc rescues it, then lovely espresso coffee on finish. Terrible aroma, but rest is good. Funnily enough someone else had it 2 days later and it was a lot better.

A Mes rate: Gravicask at Kent Beer Festival. Black red colour with a nice consitency. Fantastic dark chocolate malt in the nose with some liquorice, coffee and a really pleasing sourness. More roasty in the mouth with an unusual sweet and sour finish.

Standing order edinburgh ... Deep brown light hint of red ... light malt little blackbery nose ... sweet light fruit malt with a deep richness ... little liquorish ... juicy malts ... roast malt in linger.

Cask at Wetherspoons, Milton Keynes. Dark reddish brown with a beige head. Malty aroma. Taste is sweet and fruity with a little chocolate, smoke and ash. Mid bitterness. Rather odd. It tastes quite amateurish, but for some reason I liked it.

cask from the shakespeare’s head, kingsway. Black cherry with an off white head. Nose of roasted malts. Taste to match with bitter nutshell. Sweet finish of treacle syrup. Creamy texture, but thin bodied.

Cask at the Turf Tavern, Oxford. This was the sweetest damn thing I think I’ve ever tasted that didn’t call itself liqueur. No one told me that like everything else in Britain this thing was made with blackcurrant until the fruit started hopping out of the glass to hit me between the eyes, just as the indulgent chocolate flavors and mounds of unfermented sugars had me nearly buried in a hot, sticky mess, ready to be eaten by ants. Quite an unpleasant experience.

Cask Handpump at The Wellington, Birmingham. Black with a short foamy head. Scent is slightly roasted autumnal berry fruits. In the taste it is very very sweet. Sugar is the predominant aroma (in fact, the notes I made in the pub say "Mouthful of glucose syrup!"). Otherwise, there is some cranberry, toffee and chocolate here. Not bad if you like sugar! Let down by being quite thin.