 DruncanVeasey (2768), The Penguin’s Arms, Europe, Warwickshire, England
| 3.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 5/10 | 4/5 | 12/20 |
Nov 4, 2009 Bottle at The Penguin Beer Bobbing/13 Beers of Halloween tasting (6.1%). Easily the best conditioned beer of the evening; thick creamy tan over mahogany, lacing all the way. Butter, fresh raspberry, blackcurrant and plum in the aroma. Proper balsamic zing of sour; more blackcurrant, Flemish cherry and caramel, hint of roast. Utterly baffling, and bordering on the undrinkable. If it’s intentionally soured, it’s balanced and brilliant. But it isn’t.
johndoughty (2170), cheslyn hay, West Midlands, England
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 13/20 |
Oct 12, 2008 Bottle. Dark and poured with a medium head.Slight acidity and quite earthy.Better bottled than some of their other beers. Unusual label and quite an interesting beer.
leaparsons (4755), Leicester, Leicestershire, England
| 2.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 4/10 | 3/5 | 5/10 | 2/5 | 10/20 |
Sep 28, 2007 Bottle. Black with a thin head. Aromas are chocolate and earthy notes with sour berries. Yeasty and musty. Flavours are sour dark berries with dark chocolate. Some light earthiness. Another poorly bottled Fallen Angel.
cgarvieuk (4220), Edinburgh, Scotland
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Sep 2, 2007 deep black, sweet malt, bit too fizzy ,rich roast little sweet treacle, malty honey, deep rich roast tones balanced with the honey sweetness; slight acidity of btl condition
Ethereal (1599), London, Greater London, England
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
Sep 1, 2007 500ml bottle from Middle Farm, East Sussex. Nice aroma of berries with a hint of sourness. Pours black with a little beige head. Taste is similar to aroma - fruity with a little sourness. Decent finish too. I found this very different from other beers I’ve tried - as Ian says below ’I rather like this’. Definitely not a run of the mill stout.
Fin (3481), Merton, Oxfordshire, England
| 3.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 12/20 |
Aug 7, 2007 Bottle, picked up from the Dodgy Deli’, Cowley Rd, Oxford This poured like an erupting volcano, crikey it was lively. Black in colour with huge beige head. Aroma berries and a bit sour. Tasted very fruity, with sour edge, finished smoother but there was a dryness, this was a beer that at first I was unsure of but gradually warmed to, not bad but didn’t really come across as a typical stout.
Mungo (2473), Southampton, Hampshire, England
| 2.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 9/20 |
Apr 25, 2007 Bottle (from Bitter Virtue). Dark colour. Yeasty mustyness and lightly roasted malt with berries. Fairly dry with a little acidity in the finish. This was alright but had a few rough edges that didnt seem quite right.
duff (5475), Surrey, Greater London, England
| 2.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 4/10 | 3/5 | 4/10 | 2/5 | 8/20 |
Nov 9, 2006 Bottle. Was very dissapointed with this. Black with brown edges. Aroma is a little odd, smelt quite pale to me and the flavour wasn’t very dark either, there was some leathery sort of honey characters and a sweet flat malt character, some dark fruit i suppose, but quite dry for dark fruit flavours. Not much intensity in the flavour. I’m not sure this beer really knows what it wants to be be. Odd.
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