Samuel Smiths Yorkshire Stingo

Brewed by Samuel Smith
Style: English Strong Ale
Tadcaster, England

Bottle on 11/28/2009. Somewhat cloudy dark amber body with a medium creamy off-white head. Sweet caramel, and light molasses aroma with some earthy hop notes. Sweet caramel and sugar flavor with an earthy malt background. Medium full body with moderately low carbonation.

Bottle shared by TheCaptain on New Years Eve. Thanks for busting this one out Mark. It poured a dark shade of copper with a foamy khaki head. Though the nose was faint it was very complex. Notes of pit fruit, toffee, vanilla, and a slight sourness. The flavor had all of the notes from the smell along with some soft tannins from the wood, and a general fruitiness. Nothing really stood out, it was a very well rounded beer. A nice subtle slow sipper. Perhaps a bit too expensive however.

Pours a hazy deep orange with a thin off white head. Aroma is oaky malty some vanilla. Fla or is similar. Big malt kind of a soft mouthfeel. Good oaky beer. Nice mouthfeel.

Bottled. A deep red beer with a huge lazing tan head. The aroma has notes of over ripe fruits, malt, caramel, and a bit of raisins. The flavor is very sweet with strong notes of over ripe fruits as well as medium notes of caramel and malt as well as light notes of raisins, leading to a dry and bitter finish. The alcohol tickles the tongue.

50cl bottle. Medium beige head atop hazy copper body. Aroma is moderately sweet, caramel, raisin, some plum, light toffee. Taste is moderately sweet, raisin, caramel, some plum, light alcohol warming. Smooth medium body.

Pours cloudy caramel color with thin off white head. Aromas of apples, toffee, figs, raisins and some alcohol. Fruity and caramelly flavor with a touch of oak and some booziness. The flavors don’t live up to the aromas for me. Medium body with moderate carbonation.

Bottle from Bottleworks.

Served on the high side of cellar temperature. This is one good-looking beer; pours a beautiful red-brown with a modest and coarse/short-lived head but abundant lacing and a long-lasting rim of foam around the edge of the glass. There’s a tremendous amount going on in the aroma: apples and dates, old wine barrels and oak, toffee. Flavor is drier than anticipated given the aroma, but by no means bone dry; instead, we get an interesting blend of sourness (more in the brown ale vein than the sour ale vein) and damp old oak with dark dried fruits and sherry, any earthy bitterness closing the whole thing out. Enjoyable mouthfeel, certainly not hot nor particularly thick, but quite fulfilling once the palate adjusts expectations. Nice beer but perhaps not exceptional.

500 mlk bottle poured a clear reddish amber with a lasting amber head., Aromas of plum, raisin, molasses, oak and light vanilla. Palate was medium bodied and sdmooth with a dry finish., Flavors of plum, raisin, oak, toffee, light molasses and light vanilla with a smooth dry lingering fruity finish.