Void Space Ratio
Rivington Brewing Company Ltd
- From:
- Rivington Brewing Company Ltd
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- Sweet / Milk Stout
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.77 | pDev: 6.63%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 16, 2023
- Added:
- Mar 05, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by JonnoWillsteed from England
3.53/5 rDev -6.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.53/5 rDev -6.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Blind-tasted except for the beer's name, brewery/country and ABV%...
L- Poured in my regular trusty nucleated chalice glass despite which any minor patch of head was 100% gone in 2 seconds. Now it resembles a glass of Coke, very dark indeed with just some minor rising CO2 reaching the surface. My darkness test for black beer is to hold it right in front of a halogen bulb - this beer does not let a single photon through, most unusual/very black indeed!
S- smoke, coffee, the scent of morning-after cold log ashes.
T- Phoo! It went > coffee > oh, BIG coffee > a dry/bitter edge [hops+coffee?] that made me > [involuntarily shudder] > hoppy-dry + some bitterness + more coffee + hints of mildly sweet into the finish > smokey charred coffee is the lingering taste on the palate.
F- Pretty pungent but it has a nice balance to it, nothing sticks out as out of place or synch. The carbonation in the mouth is very subtle, too much so? Probably, but at a relatively modest 7% it's not the ABV causing it.
O- I'm quite relieved this hasn't turned out to be a mega lactose sweet/rich-bomb or similar, as can happen in this genre of modern black beers. Probably helps I had it fridge cold. That said I expect it might have more to offer if it weren't quite this cold and opened up somewhat. There is surely coffee added to this as it's a powerful. I don't know if there are non-malt sugars/carbs added (yet)... but as it's now warming a touch I'm just starting to get some hints of adjunct/non-malt carbs. I now don't think this is the kind opening-up I was wishing for.
Review/scoring all done, now the reveal, I get to read the bottle lables to see what I missed! ==> Ingredients listed include barley, oats, coffee, hops, yeast, and that's it!
500ml can BB: 04/12/21. £4.85 Bought from BeerMerchants, Kent/UK as part of a large pick-your own consignment to London. Ok to try but for me a too £ and out there is coffee-land for me to wish to drink again.
Mar 06, 2021L- Poured in my regular trusty nucleated chalice glass despite which any minor patch of head was 100% gone in 2 seconds. Now it resembles a glass of Coke, very dark indeed with just some minor rising CO2 reaching the surface. My darkness test for black beer is to hold it right in front of a halogen bulb - this beer does not let a single photon through, most unusual/very black indeed!
S- smoke, coffee, the scent of morning-after cold log ashes.
T- Phoo! It went > coffee > oh, BIG coffee > a dry/bitter edge [hops+coffee?] that made me > [involuntarily shudder] > hoppy-dry + some bitterness + more coffee + hints of mildly sweet into the finish > smokey charred coffee is the lingering taste on the palate.
F- Pretty pungent but it has a nice balance to it, nothing sticks out as out of place or synch. The carbonation in the mouth is very subtle, too much so? Probably, but at a relatively modest 7% it's not the ABV causing it.
O- I'm quite relieved this hasn't turned out to be a mega lactose sweet/rich-bomb or similar, as can happen in this genre of modern black beers. Probably helps I had it fridge cold. That said I expect it might have more to offer if it weren't quite this cold and opened up somewhat. There is surely coffee added to this as it's a powerful. I don't know if there are non-malt sugars/carbs added (yet)... but as it's now warming a touch I'm just starting to get some hints of adjunct/non-malt carbs. I now don't think this is the kind opening-up I was wishing for.
Review/scoring all done, now the reveal, I get to read the bottle lables to see what I missed! ==> Ingredients listed include barley, oats, coffee, hops, yeast, and that's it!
500ml can BB: 04/12/21. £4.85 Bought from BeerMerchants, Kent/UK as part of a large pick-your own consignment to London. Ok to try but for me a too £ and out there is coffee-land for me to wish to drink again.
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