Belhaven Scottish Stout (Keg)

Brewed by Belhaven (Greene King)
Style: Stout
Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland

Nitro Tap. Pours with a milky, off-white head and a dark-dark brown body. Aroma of coffee, raisins, nuts, nutmeg, figs and persimmon cake. Taste is chocolate, raisins, nuts, brown sugar and light coffee. Lots of stuff on the nose and tongue for a low alcohol nitro tap beer!

Pours a dark black brown color with reddish highlights and a creamy tan head. Notes of raisins, dark fruits, caramelized brown sugar. Just very sweet and dark. Nose sucks and you get a bit of graham and sweetness but the taste is pretty solid.

Nitro pour at Ginger Man. Black beer with a thick off-white/tan head. Aroma is lightly cocoaish with a light touch of estery sweetness as well. A light cherry fruit over some decently roasty maltiness. Very smooth palate. As I go through this, the beer actually gets a bit simpler and less tasty. A little bit of lingering cocoa on the back.

on tap at the Gingerman, poured a nice brown hue with a tan head that had some retention. Aroma was of sweet malts, some chocolate and a dried fruit note. Flavor was all sweet malts mostly a chocolate note. A somewhat smoky backbone but otherwise a very one dimenisonal stout. Finish was rich and creamy and the beer went to with ease.

Pretty sweet. Not much roastiness at all. Not terribly impressive. Not my idea of a stout but whatever.

A nice mouthfeel is the highlight of this stout. Otherwise, sorta pedistrian.

black pour with a 2 finger thick cream colored head. nose of creamy malts, light caramel and some peat. smooth on the palate but not quite thick enough for a stout for me. it really tastes like they roasted the malts of the regular Belhaven. Nice finish that’s creamy and smooth.

It pours a nice reddish-brown brilliant beer, with a dense cappuccino-like head which settles quite soon. The smell is dominated by caramel and toffee notes, but a bit o chocolate and I’d say also liquorice come after a while. The taste is less sweet than the aroma let you imagine, but the caramel and malt role is important. A roasted tone is also present. The body is much less full than a stout is supposed to be. It totally lacks of hop notes, any kind it could be.