Titanic Cappuccino Stout
Titanic Brewery

On cask at Three Judges in Glasgow. Pours opaque and dark with an extremely creamy head to top off the cask pour that lasts a long time and coats the glass. Actually, looks like a coffee with a thick cream topping. Nice start. The smell is pretty amazing in that it smells strongly of sweet creamy coffee...a sweet cappuccino...which is making my think they might have hit this one out of the park. Taste doesn't come through quite as much, but is still pretty good. A lower ABV milk stout that makes it pretty easy to order a second (I did). Overall, a damn good beer, especially in the nose.

On cask at Belfast Beer Fest, ‘14.
Ruby black with tan pump froth. 4
Cream and coffee nose, like its name! 4.5
Cold coffee, back grape, a touch of ash, a cocoa dust thing, then lean roasty linger. 3.75
Chocolate end and harshly lean linger.
Clean, almost medium, dry. 4

I want this as a scented candle! But body doesn’t match the nose - not sweet and super cutting, yet more quaffable for it. A nice, odd, tasty, compelling, drinkable stout that could have as easily been #1 at the Fest. 4.25

 

 

 

 

18th September 2012: cask pint, hand-pulled in The Anchor, Birmingham.

Dark brown body: looks a bit like a 'Cappuccino' complete with a light tanned froth on top (no dusting of mocca, etc though).

Smells a bit like a 'Cappucinno', tastes like one too, or at least a Greek Frappé coffee.

Luckily I like coffee, but the name gives away the flavours you are going to encounter and I really enjoyed my pint.

Nice and certainly different to anything else I had during my pub-crawl around Brum that night.