Dark Moor
Kelburn Brewing Company
- From:
- Kelburn Brewing Company
- Scotland, United Kingdom
- Style:
- English Dark Mild Ale
Ranked #51 - ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- 84
Ranked #30,688 - Avg:
- 3.64 | pDev: 13.74%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 10
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 04, 2023
- Added:
- Apr 26, 2005
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 3
SCORE
84
Good
84
Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho
3.91/5 rDev +7.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.91/5 rDev +7.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Cask sample at GBBF Winter. Dark amber pour, thin sand head. Aroma is sweet malts. Taste adds some sweet, fruity notes and a fair amount of bitterness.
Mar 04, 2023
Reviewed by MAB from Canada (AB)
3.37/5 rDev -7.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.37/5 rDev -7.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Beer #8 in the 2020 Advent Calendar.
I had high hopes, but this one disappointed. Too thin. Nice dark colour & good head. Easy drinking, but I was left wanting more.
Dec 12, 2020I had high hopes, but this one disappointed. Too thin. Nice dark colour & good head. Easy drinking, but I was left wanting more.
Reviewed by staubot from Canada (MB)
3.79/5 rDev +4.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev +4.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Day 8 on the beer advent calendar
Nice two finger head, lighter brown for a dark ale and The roasted caramel scent also comes out in the flavour with some floral. Smooth on the pallet
Dec 08, 2020Nice two finger head, lighter brown for a dark ale and The roasted caramel scent also comes out in the flavour with some floral. Smooth on the pallet
Reviewed by chinchill from South Carolina
3.77/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3.75
4.5 4 3.8 5 3.8
Dark brown body with orange highlights. Durable, Well proportioned and creamy bone-colored head. Sticky lacing covered about half of the glass by the end.
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The aroma is more hoppy than malty but this is reversed in the flavor. The flavor is also a bit more mild but has plenty of medium and medium-dark malt flavor.
O Excellent for style.
Apr 19, 2015Dark brown body with orange highlights. Durable, Well proportioned and creamy bone-colored head. Sticky lacing covered about half of the glass by the end.
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The aroma is more hoppy than malty but this is reversed in the flavor. The flavor is also a bit more mild but has plenty of medium and medium-dark malt flavor.
O Excellent for style.
Reviewed by charlatan from Scotland
3.3/5 rDev -9.3%
3.3/5 rDev -9.3%
At 'spoons in Paisley. Brick red colour, lemony nose (was struggling to find much of a smell here tbh). Seems to go through citric astringency, fruitiness, biscuitiness, caramel (that bit a disappointment), then some bitterness. Spicy hops become apparent the more I drink.
Dec 14, 2014Reviewed by BlackHaddock from England
4/5 rDev +9.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +9.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
36th CAMRA Cotswold beer festival (July 2012) in the lovely 15th century Tithe Barn: the setting for my tasting of this beer.
Gravity poured pint: looked like the colour was mahogany in the barn, more chestnut in the bright sunlight outside, the off-white head didn’t change colour or hang around long.
Fruit loaf smell, a sweet fruit loaf at that: the taste followed on giving me a lovely malt laden mouthful after mouthful: if I hadn’t been on a mission to try a few more brews this would have been my afternoon tipple of choice at the festival.
Good body depth and with enough flavour to keep me happy: I prefer maltier, slightly sweet beers compared to the dry, bitter, citrusy hop beers anyway.
Aug 23, 2012Gravity poured pint: looked like the colour was mahogany in the barn, more chestnut in the bright sunlight outside, the off-white head didn’t change colour or hang around long.
Fruit loaf smell, a sweet fruit loaf at that: the taste followed on giving me a lovely malt laden mouthful after mouthful: if I hadn’t been on a mission to try a few more brews this would have been my afternoon tipple of choice at the festival.
Good body depth and with enough flavour to keep me happy: I prefer maltier, slightly sweet beers compared to the dry, bitter, citrusy hop beers anyway.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.33/5 rDev -36%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
2.33/5 rDev -36%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
Reviewed from notes. Served at Blackfriar's pub in Glasgow, from a cask.
A: Thin pathetic head. Dark amber colour. Somewhat inviting.
Sm: Light clean scent of barley. Standard fare. A bit bland for a cask ale.
T: Unremarkable open to relatively balanced body with standard malty amber taste. Some light hops. Empty, disappointing finish.
Mf: Very smack-your-lips crisp, but too watery and smooth. Above all it's almost flat; pathetic and unacceptable for a cask ale. Perhaps Blackfriar's pub stores it incorrectly.
Dr: Too expensive (even in Glasgow) for its low profile and quality. Whatever you brew, be confident and bold, not flavourless and flat.
Mar 08, 2011A: Thin pathetic head. Dark amber colour. Somewhat inviting.
Sm: Light clean scent of barley. Standard fare. A bit bland for a cask ale.
T: Unremarkable open to relatively balanced body with standard malty amber taste. Some light hops. Empty, disappointing finish.
Mf: Very smack-your-lips crisp, but too watery and smooth. Above all it's almost flat; pathetic and unacceptable for a cask ale. Perhaps Blackfriar's pub stores it incorrectly.
Dr: Too expensive (even in Glasgow) for its low profile and quality. Whatever you brew, be confident and bold, not flavourless and flat.
Reviewed by champ103 from Texas
4.06/5 rDev +11.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.06/5 rDev +11.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
On cask at the Cafe Royal in Edinburgh.
A: Pours a dark amber brown color. A two finger tan head forms with great retention. The foam stays all the way through the pint. Excellent sticky, spiderweb looking lace is left behind.
S: Lightly toasted and caramel malt. Cereal and grain as well.
T: A very clean malty flavor. Toasted and caramel malt. A really enjoyable sweetness that never becomes cloying. Light on the hops, as the style should be.
M/D: A medium body and carbonation. Creamy and very smooth. Easy to drink. I can quaff several with no problem.
I like this a lot. It is very simple, but really enjoyable. A well made Dark Mild.
Aug 31, 2010A: Pours a dark amber brown color. A two finger tan head forms with great retention. The foam stays all the way through the pint. Excellent sticky, spiderweb looking lace is left behind.
S: Lightly toasted and caramel malt. Cereal and grain as well.
T: A very clean malty flavor. Toasted and caramel malt. A really enjoyable sweetness that never becomes cloying. Light on the hops, as the style should be.
M/D: A medium body and carbonation. Creamy and very smooth. Easy to drink. I can quaff several with no problem.
I like this a lot. It is very simple, but really enjoyable. A well made Dark Mild.
Reviewed by seanyfo from Scotland
4.33/5 rDev +19%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
4.33/5 rDev +19%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Pint served by handpump in the Cafe Royal in Edinburgh.
A- Dark mahogany body, with a 2 finger creamy sustained tan head. Producing good creamy lacing.
S- Sweet candies and sugary plum notes.
T- Sweet christmas cake type notes fade to a bready nuttiness. A bitter floral hop note lingers on.
M- Light yet full bodied. Creamy
D- A lovely flavoursome dark ale that is light in the stomach. Very moreish and interesting for a session.
Feb 06, 2009A- Dark mahogany body, with a 2 finger creamy sustained tan head. Producing good creamy lacing.
S- Sweet candies and sugary plum notes.
T- Sweet christmas cake type notes fade to a bready nuttiness. A bitter floral hop note lingers on.
M- Light yet full bodied. Creamy
D- A lovely flavoursome dark ale that is light in the stomach. Very moreish and interesting for a session.
Reviewed by gentlebubbles from Massachusetts
3.03/5 rDev -16.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.03/5 rDev -16.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
NERAX 2005
A reddish clear cola color, with a low off-white head barely tinted with ecru.
Light caramel aroma with a medicinal spike through the middle.
Rather a hot bite of grassy herbal hops over light caramel, a combination I'm not sure I've encountered before.
Light-bodied with low carbonation. It's interesting for a moment, but I feel somewhat let down by it.
Apr 28, 2005A reddish clear cola color, with a low off-white head barely tinted with ecru.
Light caramel aroma with a medicinal spike through the middle.
Rather a hot bite of grassy herbal hops over light caramel, a combination I'm not sure I've encountered before.
Light-bodied with low carbonation. It's interesting for a moment, but I feel somewhat let down by it.
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