Chocolate Nutter
Why Not Brewery, The

A bottle-conditioned beer purchased at the RAIB (Real Ale In Bottle) stall, GBBF 06. Coming in a 500ml brown bottle, it is made from "Maris Otter barley grown at Branthill Farm, Wells next the Sea", using Chocolate malts... BB July 2007, Batch No. CN0616, served cool in a straight imperial pint glass.

A: deep and dark brownish in colour, with mahogany glows against light; poured carefully to avoid sediments so the tan beer head is quite thin and dissipates fast; very low carbonation as far as my eyes manage to see throught the nearly-black nectar.
S: deep yet mild roast-nutty dark malts, with chunks of raw-ish bitter chocolates and calcium-pills at the back--bitter-sweet nutty as well as chocolatey at the same time... no assertive input of hops detected, while a tinge of vinous dark-fruits lags behind. Pretty simple in composition, but nice.
T: profoundly bitter roasted malts quietly flood the whole palate, yet so smoothly-textured... quickly bringing along an aromatic edge of Chinese walnut-date cake, chewy and rough charred wood-chips, and an intensifyingly bitter taste like 70%-90% dark chocolates with a mildly sour-bitter kick; an incredible length of dryish bitterness lingers down the rear and wings of the tongue, like ground dried root-herbs and licorice's dryish-sweetness, but even more soothingly bitter...
M&D: softly-carbonated and smoother than smooth, even a bit oily as far as the lubricating maltiness is concerned... allowing the bitter-ish roastiness to roam freely on the palate without any hurdles. Medium-plus bodied, full-flavoured stout, brilliant bottle-conditioning; although the flavour itself is not as complex as some other English stouts I've had, this beer's depth is definitely one of the most impressive and the 5.5% alc. simply dissolves in the nectar, making it an utterly-quaffable session stout. I feel so lucky to have picked up this RAIB from the GBBF this year, and firmly believe that any stout/porter-lover would fall for it.