Ridgeway Bad King John

Brewed by Hepworth
Style: Stout
Horsham, England

Sampled during Cellar’s final beer tasting in St Paul, MN. Pours a clear dark brown brew with a creamy beige head that slowly dissipates to a thin ring. Aroma of roasted dark malt, some prunes, a hint of yeast and some brown sugar. Taste is medium bodied, flavors of roasted dark malt, prunes, some coffee and chocolate. Finish is semi-dry with a toasted dark malt and chocolate aftertaste.

(Draught) Pours a black body with a small creamy beige head. Aroma of licorice, roasted malt, cocoa, and dried dark fruits (raisins, black cherry). Flavor of roasted malt, licorice, caramel, and cocoa.

Bottle at YNWA. Clear dark brown - offwhite head. Burned, roasted, fruity, ryebread, chocolate, citric, light hoppy, light boitterness, fruity, toasted, roasted ryebread. OK.

Bottle, 6.0%. Clear very dark brown colour, red shine. Roasted flavour, good creamy coffee note. Slightly vinous. High carbonation.

50 cL bottle. Pours deep brown with a huge and light tan head. Mild roasted and slight fruity aroma. Flavour too is medium sweet and fruity. Mild yeasty note and light toasted malt. Easy and clean.

Bottle. Pours dark brown with a spare, rocky, off-white head, mostly diminishing with spare lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (molasses, toffee), light hops (celery), average yeast (leather) with notes of prune, dates, licorice, and medicine. Medium bodied, thin texture, soft carbonation, and a bitter finish. Average duration, light sweetness, moderate acidity and bitterness.

not bad, its really dark and has lots of dark malts. very coffeeish. kinda fizzy and carbonated. still its good.

The aroma is like burnt malt with cream and coffee. The appearance is black with an average head. The flavor is like the aroma. The palate is too thin for a stout. I am not very fond of this one.