Cherry Stout
Tyne Bank Brewery Ltd.

Bottled and possibly bottle conditioned and purchased from high end grocery store Booths
Pours a jet black body with minimal tan head
Aroma is cherry cola and treacle
Liquorice filled with cherry kelaigh

Pours darkest reddish black into a glass from a bottle. Tan head is two fingers high, creamy and frothy; it sits at a finger width from henceforth.

Aroma is very rich; cherries, port, brandy, barrel roast, and some oak-aged whisky notes. It is very deep and heady with a dominant fortified wine character.

Flavour isn't as rich as it lets on with a focussed cola and artificial cherry soda quality. It lacks all the intense port-like flavours that were present in the nose, although it does hang on to an oaken quality like - indeed - a barrel-aged liqueur. Altogether, it is very lacking in flavour, more like a cheap bourbon and coke than a beer.

Feel is disappointingly thin, with too much carbonation for a stout, and a wet finish. It has the consistancy of a brown ale, with something far too watery about it in both taste and body.

Overall, I wouldn't return to this 'stout' again; I feel like I'm drinking a weak Jack Daniels and coke.