Jubilee
Kirkby Lonsdale Brewery Co Ltd

Bottled but not too sure about the bottle conditionin
Pours a jet black body with full coverage of tan head
Coffee toffee aroma with burned toast
Full breakfast experience with burned toast raspberry jam and coffee
Okay mouthfeel

This bottled conditioned beer was bought at the brewery tap in a mixed box of three.

Brown 500ml bottle, best before August 2010, drank and reviewed on a damp and boring evening in July 2010, just two weeks of life left then!

The first beer in my Stout tasting evening (of three).

Poured into a pint sleeve, carefully trying not to shift too much sediment. The beer was a solid black colour, the head a huge foaming canopy of a deep tanned hue.

Burnt malts hit the nose, the taste is also very much a burnt, yet fairly sweet malted flavour. The beer drys in the mouth very quickly and the sweetness fades away as it drys too. Liquorice and chocolate hints appear latter in the mouthfeel, but heavily roasted/burnt malts dominate throughout the beer.

The alcohol content isn't really noticed, the richness and depth of flavours mask it very well.

I hope the next two Stouts are as good as this version.