 fonefan (4328), Ulfborg, Denmark
Mar 4, 2008 Cask (gravity) @ The National Winter Ales Festival 2008, Manchester, UK. Clear medium to dark brown color with a small, frothy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, burnt, coffee, notes of smoke, tar. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft - flat. (190108)
Mes_and_Sim (4176), London, Greater London, England
Jun 4, 2007 A Mes rate:
Gravicask. I’ve said this before but I hate slating something when I am the first to enter it. Sadly there is not much else I can do. Nose is very bland with only some very faint barnyardy notes to detect. Mid brown colour that is fairly light for a stout. Tea in the flavour with hardly any of the roasty dark malt and coffeechoc character you would expect from a stout. Bitter finish wraps it up. Very plain and uninteresting stout.
cgarvieuk (2302), Edinburgh, Scotland
May 2, 2007 Deep black in colour, with a light roast malt nose, and a complex rounded roast malt flavour with a pleasent linger.
ClarkVV (3547), Allston, Massachusetts, USA
May 16, 2006 Updated: May 25, 2006Draught half pint at NERAX on 5/4/06.
Rapidly fleeting light-tan head recedes to nothing, with no ring even. Medium clarity throughout a dark, milk-chocolate brown body, with dark auburn highlights on the edges.
Faint, faint, faint nose is weakly chocolatey. Actually, I think I just made myself think I was smelling that because it’s a stout. I honestly couldnt smell much more than light yeast. OldGrowth was able to find some light roast and a hint of coffee, which I suppose I could find upon warming, but this had to be the most lacking aroma I’ve ever smelled. And my nose wasnt shot because we compared it to the Acorn Stout and that was beautifully aromatic and complex.
Flavor was, unfortunately, almost equally as bland. Light touches of syrupy-textured water, very loose, with the barest hint of lean chocolate and a hint of dry graham crackers and yeast on the finish. No flaws though (on the meager plus side) and not oxidized, just needs more there. I little more primer would have gone a long way on this one.
Magic_dave6 (3642), London, Greater London, England
Apr 21, 2006 Roasted nutty aroma a little sweetness too. Taste similar maybe a little molasses further into it, not very bitter.
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