Hambleton Nightmare (Bottle)

(on bottle) Dark red, white head. Dry malted, partly smoked, waterish mouth. dry finish, with liqourice and somewhat burnt.

Reddish-brown pour with an off-white head. Aroma of sweet malt, roasted malt. Taste is malty- slightly roasted. Low carbonation Some lacing. A bit of a dry roasted malt aftertaste.

In short: A problematic fruity sour porter. Bad bottle?
How: Bottle 500ml. Consumed (probably fresh) the day of purchase
The look: Dark ruby body topped by a medium beige head
In long: Nose is fruity with cheap wine notes. Taste is highly problematic. First the highly roasted malts (more like burnt) have no body and it feels like ashes in water. Very fruity with way too much of a prune juice flavour. Vanilla. Then there’s that weird sourness and I’m too sure if this was infection or just a very unpleasant inappropriate fruity sourness. Anyway this was a bad beer. Not only that but it was expensive. And true story: I was drinking this shitty expensive beer at my hotel and I spilled half my glass on my laptop. Honest. I blew my $500 laptop with that shitty expensive beer. And it’s called Nightmare. No shit. This is one of those bad memory that will haunt me for the rest of my life. Like the time I caught my father jerking-off. To a baby picture. Of me.

Bottle from Sainsburys Bradford. Black colour but very flat looking. Very light aroma of malt and coffee. Bitter malt, lacks body.

Black in color with an average sized beige head. Aroma is of roasted malts, chocolate, cocoa, and light caramel. Taste is of malt, light roastiness, and cocoa.

pours a clear dark brown with a ruby tint, a small tan head, and good lacing. smell is of cocoa, some coffee, and a touch of vanilla. taste is of cocoa, weak coffee, a touch of vanilla bean, and some malt, ends a tad bitter.

Bottle.Dark and slightly smokey.Low carbonation with chocolate and a lot of body. Impressive.

The smell is malts, coffee, chocolate, slight molasses, christmas cookies, and biscuits. The look is brown to black in color with a decent beige head. The taste is the same as the smell.