Black Treacle Stout
Pressure Drop Brewing
- From:
- Pressure Drop Brewing
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- Foreign / Export Stout
- ABV:
- 8.2%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.2 | pDev: 3.33%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jul 29, 2021
- Added:
- Mar 25, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Dark roasted barley is the star in this toasty & rich stout. Hedgerow hops add a fruity flair and a touch of treacle adds complexity without taking you to Pastrytown.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Spike from England
4.34/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.34/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
L: Jet black with a thick mocha head that leaves sheets of lacing.
S: Massive sweet coffee and dark chocolate aroma. Smells like a milk stout (black treacle is added rather than sucrose).
T: It’s sweet alright but it’s sweetness is rounded and gentle. Definitely not a milk stout. Tremendous coffee, charred malt and black treacle flavours with a dry, alcoholic finish.
F: Absolutely works class mouthfeel. Rich, velvet smooth and soft. Leaves a full coating but it’s not at all cloying. Carbonation is gently effervescent.
O: A superb stout. Big and boozy, rich and decadent, but sufficiently dry to remain grounded.
Jul 29, 2021S: Massive sweet coffee and dark chocolate aroma. Smells like a milk stout (black treacle is added rather than sucrose).
T: It’s sweet alright but it’s sweetness is rounded and gentle. Definitely not a milk stout. Tremendous coffee, charred malt and black treacle flavours with a dry, alcoholic finish.
F: Absolutely works class mouthfeel. Rich, velvet smooth and soft. Leaves a full coating but it’s not at all cloying. Carbonation is gently effervescent.
O: A superb stout. Big and boozy, rich and decadent, but sufficiently dry to remain grounded.
Reviewed by JonnoWillsteed from England
4.05/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.05/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
#1705 - Blind tasted, apart from brewery/name/style/ABV%
Hard to know this beer's accurate style (pre trying it!), so I added it as Stout - Foreign/export.
L- Jet black, pours silent ie zero splashing at all, even from 10Cm high, which can suggest viscosity and major sweetness - I hope not! Good looking 10mm deep tan creamy looking head.
S- Deep charring, morning-after ashes in a log fire-place.
T- Boof! Cinders indeed, deep roast, wisps of smoke, BIG deep coffee which lingers-longtime too. There is certainly a rich/sweet facet but in the scheme of the rest of the pungency it's almost lost and no concern (I REALLY do not like sweet notes, lol...). It has some solid hops too otherwise all of this^ would easily over-dominate. I register them most after each swallow.
F- Massively deep and darkly pungent. Made for slow-sipping in winter.
O- The T+F are SO big that I've not even noticed the ABV% - '8.2% you say!?'. Truth is of course that this beer wouldn't hang together as a cohestive whole unless it did have a quite serious ABV% underpinning it all.
Conclusion 1) Fears this 'treacle stout' might be sweet are unfounded, the taste/feel are so mega it's somewhat rich yet balanced. 2) Don't expect to taste detail in much anything else immediately after you have had one of these, it is a thundering beast on the palate. 3) It was expensive but I'm glad I tried it, as it has it's own character (big time!) and I don't often get to try such big self-assured statements that actually work!
Packed: 11/03/2021, two weeks ago! BB 11/03/22. Bought from RealAle, Portobello Road, London £7.10 440ml/can.
Would I drink it again? Sure, esp. as a slow-sipping winter-warmer. Would I pay it's large £ again? .... hmmm £16/litre!, that will get you a really wide range of honestly World Class beers...
Mar 25, 2021Hard to know this beer's accurate style (pre trying it!), so I added it as Stout - Foreign/export.
L- Jet black, pours silent ie zero splashing at all, even from 10Cm high, which can suggest viscosity and major sweetness - I hope not! Good looking 10mm deep tan creamy looking head.
S- Deep charring, morning-after ashes in a log fire-place.
T- Boof! Cinders indeed, deep roast, wisps of smoke, BIG deep coffee which lingers-longtime too. There is certainly a rich/sweet facet but in the scheme of the rest of the pungency it's almost lost and no concern (I REALLY do not like sweet notes, lol...). It has some solid hops too otherwise all of this^ would easily over-dominate. I register them most after each swallow.
F- Massively deep and darkly pungent. Made for slow-sipping in winter.
O- The T+F are SO big that I've not even noticed the ABV% - '8.2% you say!?'. Truth is of course that this beer wouldn't hang together as a cohestive whole unless it did have a quite serious ABV% underpinning it all.
Conclusion 1) Fears this 'treacle stout' might be sweet are unfounded, the taste/feel are so mega it's somewhat rich yet balanced. 2) Don't expect to taste detail in much anything else immediately after you have had one of these, it is a thundering beast on the palate. 3) It was expensive but I'm glad I tried it, as it has it's own character (big time!) and I don't often get to try such big self-assured statements that actually work!
Packed: 11/03/2021, two weeks ago! BB 11/03/22. Bought from RealAle, Portobello Road, London £7.10 440ml/can.
Would I drink it again? Sure, esp. as a slow-sipping winter-warmer. Would I pay it's large £ again? .... hmmm £16/litre!, that will get you a really wide range of honestly World Class beers...
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