Buxton Stronge Extra Stout
Extra stout has a full rich body with huge proportions of dark malt that lend this traditional stout masses of tar, smoke and leather.
3.9
347 reviews
Buxton, England
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Earthy, chocolate and cocoa aroma, some roasted malt and cigarette smoke. Pitch black color with medium sized dark brown head, pretty neat. Taste is same as aroma, earthy, cocoa, roasty. Reminds me of some certain Milka chocolate. Lovely. Medium to full body, flat carbonation, creamy. //tap at Craft Room
Bottle. Nose is dark chocolate, vanilla, coffee, soy, slightly salty, plum. Taste is rich dark chocolate, leading to bitter coffee, bitter chocolate, hazel nut, bitter nut, hints of soy and salt, charcoal, earth and more chocolate, hop bitterness in the finish. Mouthfeel is velvet. A superb stout.
Earlier Rating: 10/31/2013 Total Score: 3.9
Bottle: Nose is hazelnut, lactose, leaves, a little chocolate, all very rich and full. Taste is smoke, licorice, hazelnut, espresso, roast, wood. Long finish. Mouthfeel is slippery. Very nice.
Cask at Charlie's Bar. High creamy lasting light brown head. Pitch black body. Smooth and pleasant roasted malt cocoa coffee aroma. Roasted malt coffee coconut flavor with little hops bitterness, low carbonation and a long relatively sweet finish.
On tap at Craft Room Zagreb. Pitch black coloured, medium sized brown head, chocolate and coffee in the nose. Roasted malt, coffee, dark chocolate, light alcohol and notes of dried fruits with again chocolate in the finish. Great brew.
0.33 l bottle from 'Ace Drinks' as 'Buxton Extra Stout', bottled in December 2017. Pitch black with a large, foamy, stable, brown head. Sweetish-malty, quite roasty aroma of milk cocoa, hazelnut, milk coffee, nougat and a touch of dark fruits. Moderately sweet, malty, quite roasty and a little fruity taste of dark chocolate, coffee, licorice, some hazelnut and a touch of dark fruits, followed by a medium long, rather roasty-bitter, earthy-dry and quite resiny-hoppy finish. Medium to full body, creamy and moderately effervescent mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Great Stout!
Thnx to Joost. Pours black, good tanned head. Smell is coffee, roast, sharp. Taste is likewise. Very balanced, bitter, some green hops, over a bunch of coffee and roast. Very good example for an international export stout.
Formidable stout! This is one of the classics, love the etiquette as well. This is a beer you really have to try if you have any relationship with dark beers. Coffeelike and very beany.
Pitch black colored, medium dark tan creamy head, nice lacing. Aroma is of dark chocolate, coffee, bit roasted malt, some dark fruits. Taste is medium sweet malt, dark & bitter chocolate, light coffee and bit roasty, some dark fruits, medium+ choco bitterness, dry choco finish and lasting aftertaste. Medium+ bodied, soft carbonation, creamy as cold hot chocolate which this beer basically is!
(bottle, Bierhalle Deconinck, Vichte)
Fad: Sort øl med et stort flot mokkafarvet skumhoved. Duften er chokolade og let brændt malt. Tyk mundfylde der gør dens procenter stolte. Meget drikbar og velhumlet til at bakke malten op. Lækker øl.
330 ml bottle as Extra Stout. Pours black with full head. Aromas of chocolate, dry dark vanilla and rich roasted malts. Flavors of dusty dry roasted malts, sweet molasses, creamy dark chocolate and espresso. Beauty.
On tap at Craft room, Zagreb. Black with nice brown head. Chocolate, coffee, loads of cocoa, nice soft roastiness, light sweetness, lasting bitter finish. Maybe just a bit too much of that bitterness. Dry. Dense with solid thickness. Medium bodied. Well this is great, really nice surprise.
Tap at Craft Room. Pitch black, creamy tan-brown head. Lovely full chocolatey and dry malty aroma, cocoa, wow. Silky soft taste, dark chocolate on chocolate on more chocolate, lean, no alcohol, vague vague bitterness, fantastic. Just fantastic. Hats off Buxton, two world class stouts out of two.
Bottle. Shared in 2. Pours deep opaque black with a large, staying, creamy beige head. Aroma has roasted malts, dark chocolate, astringent, plums. Medium carbonation, fine dry and quite creamy mouthfeel. Flavour has hard roasted malts, dark chocolate, cocoa powder. Heavy bitterness, quite astringent.
Bottle from Cotteridge Wines; dark opaque brown pour with a creamy tan head, aroma has light coffee and chocolate, taste has chocolate of the dark variety, coffee hints, some dark fruits.
Earlier Rating: 9/14/2013 Total Score: 4
Bottle from Cotteridge Wines; dark brown almost black pour with thin tan head, big roast malt and chocolate aroma, roast malts and chocolate come through in the taste along with bitter expresso coffee, a hint of vanilla and demerera sugar sweetness, along with a viscous mouthfeel, excellent stout, big bold and complex.
bottle at home. Pours with a brown head and very black. Strong smell of coffee but didnt pick up any tasting it, Is going down a treat brillant beer
Tap at the Canal House. Pours ebony black body and foamy mocha to, diminishing lacing. Aroma profoundly dark roasted malts with licorice and dark chocolate notes. Taste is medium bitter with a little ashy aftertaste. Palate is medium bodied with sticky texture, average carbonation, and said bitter ashes in the finish although that is not as bad as it sounds! Oddly enough this is listed as a foreign stout which may be a swipe at Derbyshire given that I am in Nottingham.
From keg at Port Street Beer House, Manchester, with OGJ 07.01.18. Ebony. Diminsihing brown head. Dense and persistent lacing. Excellently balanced aroma and taste of pine, rosted barley, tar and cigar box. Pine bitterness is lingering on.
Butelka do 13.01.2018
Czarne nieprzejrzyste, piana drobna brązowa, bardzo trwała, zdobi szkło. Aromat to przede wszystkim palona kawa i gorzka czekolada. Gładkie, nisko nasycone, powoli spływa po gardle, jest przyjemnie wytrawne. Smak to zarówno kawa i gorzka czekalada jak i wyraźna paloność na finiszu.
33 cl bottle served in a snifter. Poured black with two finger mocha tan head. Aroma: lotsa chocolate, vanilla, toffee, leather, dark fruit, smoke, coffee. Taste: dark chocolate, vanilla, toffee, dark fruit, licorice, umami/soy sauce, smoked ham, roasted nuts, raisins, dates, dark roasted espresso beans, graham crackers, leather, devil's food cake. Superb chewy and creamy mouthfeel, this could easily pass off as an imperial stout. Full body with a roasted bittersweet finish. Awesome brew!
Bottle from John's Marketplace. Only listed as Extra Stout. Pours a pitch black color with a medium brown head. A huge roasted malt and toffee nose. The aroma is so amazing it just sets it all up. Huge roasted malt metallic flavors, dark fruit, prunes, caramel and toffee. Damn good. This is one of the best tasting beers I've had. Perfect roast. The best Impys are like this but so big that it can't be everyday. This could be. Lovely. Great slick palate. Wow.
Bottle 33 cl. Comes as "Winter Stout". Pours an opaque black with a dense, light brown head. Super intense aroma of English licorice and a little bitter chocolate. Rich, full, sweet body of slightly salty licorice notes, medium roast. Vague hint of coffee. A little roasty bitterness. Excellent Stout, for lesser breweries this could pass as an Imperial Stout. 051217
Tiny dark brown head.
Black color.
Straight and robust dark malt aroma.
Roasted malty taste with a balanced bitterness.
Slow pour a thickness to it small head black pour strong carbonation aromas coffee bean wow molasses caramel chocolate oat wheat flavours coffee bean lactose cocoa rich chocolate caramel grains rich but smooth porter the grains do it proud coffee as good a coffee taste you can get in aftertaste lovely porter
Ar: Dark booze and treacle; ash, nougat, sherry; deep dark chocolate. Ap: Black and opaque; medium0small mocha head with moderate-low retention, settling into a ring of medium bubbles and a thin covering of foam. T: Dark, very burnt caramel; licorice, ash, and dark chocolate; mild but foundational sweetness; medium-high bitterness, but fairly clean, with a vinous and soil-like hop flavor; lot of dark chocolate on the finish. P: Medium-full body, truly creamy and smooth; carbonation if medium-low; finish is medium-dry. O: This is a spectacular, masterful beer; the depth of burnt caramel and chocolate flavor is astounding, and the beer presents the perfect mouthfeel to go along with the brilliant flavors.
Bottle @home. Pours black, tan head. Nose leather, wood, dark chocolate, slight pine. Taste is slightly sweet chocolate but also dark chocolate, slight coconut, vanilla, bloody wonderful.
Black hue under a thin light tan ring of foam. Rich dark chocolate sweet nose with a touch of biscuitiness and that sort of aroma you get right when you walk into a 7-Eleven. Lovely full flavor that’s dark, inky, smooth, a little roasty, full of earthy dark bittersweet chocolate, and a semisweet cocoa biscuity roasty finish. Delightful.
Really intense black color, roasted malt flavors. Chocolate notes are not the main focus here. Really food beer
Black oily pour, thin creamy tan head and a thin ring of head ..... aroma of chocolate, roasted malts, molasses, tobacco and light smoke ..... taste is of light smoke, tobacco, chocolate, molasses and cocoa with roasted and caramel malts .. has some dark fruity yeast and light licorice ..... mouthfeel is a bit creamy with slick and oily features .... finish has bitter dark cocoa and tobacco along with roasted malts and licorice .... solid and tasty stout .... drinks a lot like a big beer
33cl bottle. Black with a small tan head. Coffee, chocolate and liquorice. Good.
330ml bottle as Winter Stout, thanks to Finn for sharing. Espresso head leaving crocheted lacing behind. Jet black body. Mid-sweet cocoa flavours with a vanilla touch. Nicely roasted malty flavours with impacts of cocoa, chocolate and dark fruits. Mid-dry malty bitter end. Good depth and good drinking. (Rating session at Finn’s, Tromsø 18.05.2017).