Carib Royal Extra Stout
A similar brewing process to lagers with the use of lager yeast is used in the production of Royal Extra Stout. Fermentation time is much shorter than lagers, and takes place at a higher temperature. Finings traditionally composed of isinglass (fish bladder protein) are designed for yeast removal used during conditioning (storage) prior to filtration. It is also gives the aphrodisiac connotation.
2.9
302 reviews
Champs-Fleurs, Trinidad & Tobago
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12 ounce bottle thanks to Sean. Pours a pitch black color with a medium light brown head. A light nose of lactose and metal. A nice flavor consisting of metallic roast, sweet smoke and molasses, some sweeter caramel. Pretty much spot on for the style, very drinkable and very enjoyable.
Bottle. Pitch black in color with minimal head. Brownish in color. Aroma of milk chocolate and a touch of coffee. Taste is similar with a slight watery mouthfeel. Not that great.
Bottled 28/12/13. A black beer with a dissipating off-white head. A disappointingly thin aroma. Quite sweet in the mouth with a bit of saltiness. Doesn’t drink its strength. Becomes fairly tasty but a below par foreign stout. Score 3.2
Subsequent rating scored 3.6. Average becomes 3.4
Dark brown almost black with almost no head. Sweet aroma like molasses. Sweet taste of malt and molasses with a watery malt finish.
Bottle->Nonic. Deep brown with frothy tan head. A: coffee, sweet chocolate, malt. T: sweet candied chocolate, artificial sweeteners. Lingering cloying sweet aftertaste. Bordering on terrible.
Poured from a bottle. Dark brown color, medium tan head. Pine and metallic smell. Light sweat malty body with with a slight tart flavor.
The caribbrewery.com website describes the ingredients for this stout as “Sugar, Lactose, BAP and Caramel”. Further on, it says “Lactose is sugar produced from the whey of milk.” Now this is enough to make it a Sweet Stout, isn’t it? (Or if not, at least a Baltic Porter, for the list of ingredients). Moreover, considering that this is the same brewery that makes the Mackeson XXX Stout, I somehow expected this to be the same product as its adopted English sister, but with a different label. Now, after having seen, smelled and tasted it, one can clearly notice the striking differences and the reasons why they have perhaps styled it a “Foreign Stout” in this website. The beer is nice and black, but the brown head is very bubbly and brief, not even 10% as creamy as the Mackeson XXX Stout (I’ve always criticised my twins’ teachers for comparing them, and now… what am I doing?). Aroma of caramels and vinegar, behind a certain skunkiness, nothing to be too excited about. Flavours of malt, caramel, soy sauce and sweet red vinegar, the Chinese type. This shoyu+sweet vinegar sets the tone for its foreignness, I suppose. Palate is rather thin for a stout that takes lactose in its make-up.
It has a coffee smell to it and maybe a bit of chocolate. It is black with a dark brown head. It is surprisingly sweet, with coffee.
330 ml. bottle. Pours dark brown with a decent tan head. Aroma of malt, dark fruit, and brown sugar. Taste is sweet malt, dark fruit, brown sugar, and molasses. Very sweet. Just drinkable.
Bottle shared at the ChrisO Flags of Many Nations Easter Tasting 2013 - London. Pours clearish brown with a creamy tan head. Sugary dark malt nose, some sweet bread. Medium sweet flavor, a little thin, with dark sugars and sweet chocolate. Light to medium bodied with average, massaging carbonation. Sweet finish with sugary dark malts. Very simple but not terrible.
Bottle sample at a tasting at kerenmk’s place. Thanks kerenmk. Pours black with a beige head, aroma of tier, chocolate and chocolate drink powder, flavor is sweet with cardboard, chocolate and some milk acidity, medium body
Bottle shared at a tasting at our place. Old. Very dark brown-black with tan ring. Faintly roasty aroma, sweet chocolate drink, cardboard and sugar. Very, very, sweet coffee taste, then comes sugar injection. Medium body, rather mild carbonation, sweet finish.
Bottle 275ml. @ [ (Easter "Flags of many nations" Tasting) by Chriso - London ].
Clear dark brown colour with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, chocolate, cardboard. Flavour is moderate sweet with a average duration, sweet sugary, chocolate, artificial. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20130331]
Bottle. Black pour with a nice mocha head. Soil, caramel, wet leaves, raisin. medium carbonation with medium body. Slight creamy and bitter finish.
Bottle sample at a tasting at kerenmk’s place. Thanks kerenmk. Black with a light brown head. Roasty aroma, a bit grainy and vegetal, with cardboard. Sweet flavor, malty, caramelly, a bit roasty, with saccharine and cardboard. Light to medium-bodied.
Bottle first enjoyed at Pigeon Point, Tobago and then also in Barbados. Black with a small tan head, quite sweet toffee aroma and fairly full bodied. Minimal roasting. Preferring dark beers as I do, on this trip this was something of a treat when compared to most other beers available.
Bottle at Chriso Easter "Flags of many nations" Tasting, 31/03/13 cheers to Rilester for lugging this one back to me from his cricket tour.
Very dark mahogony brown with a thin tan head that clears to the edge.
Nose is dark malt, light chocolate notes, dark fruits, brown sugars.
Taste is sweet brown sugars, touch lactose, dark fruit, more sugar!
Medium bodied, moderate carbonation, sweet in the finish.
Pretty average fayre but driknable, syrupy sugary sweet !!!
31st March 2013
Tasting at ChrisOs. Clear dark red - brown beer. Residual tan head. Light dry palate. Super sweet sugary beer. Mild fruits Just so very very sweet! Light paper.
bottle at chris0 ... deep brown.. dark suger roast ... soft dark sugers .... sweet toffee roast ...
Veyr good too, a little watery perhaps but nice and fine aroma. Very good sweet and alcoholic taste too.
I think like most people I accidentally bought a bottle of this, mistaking it for the Sri Lankan Lion Stout. Dark brown, nice tan head. That’s where the nice ends. Very sweet aroma, a little roasted malt, if that’s even what it is. Sticky medium body. Sickeningly sweet and artificial tasting. Gross.
Robust malty and very sweet aroma. Black color with a medium brown head. Strong sweet beginning that builds into a sharp sweetness in the finish.
Pours a thinish looking black with an enormous sized head. Aromas of toffee, some roast, some bitter malt. First sip reveals an all too thin and sweet stout. Meh. Some caramel, roast and cheese, but nothing to write home about. Scroll past.
Poured from a 12 ounce bottle. Sugary sweet , plum, lots of fruity yeast character. This is a very sweet stout, dry finish.
Total Wine, Fairfax 11.6 oz ($1.79): Pours black with a brown head. Aroma is sweet roasted malt type of stuff (coffee toffee). Taste is mostly just sugar, in the form of a lot of molasses. Coffee ice cream type taste. Better than I expected.
Bottle. Pours a very dark brown with a moderate light brown head. The taste on this is a bit sour, which I found odd. It’s got a hint of sourness to the nose as well. Very odd and not my type of stout.
Poured from 330 ml bottle. Served far too warm, alas.
Opaque, near black with large tan head that dissipates fairly quickly. Excellent lacing.
Aroma of sweet roasted malt, dark fruit and brown sugar.
Taste of brown sugar, sweet dark fruit, sweet dark malt and molasses.
Medium light body and soft carbonation.
Sweet and fruity but not very complex. Soda pop beer without the fizz.
Pours black color with light brown head. Aromas of roasted malts, coffee and toffee. Flavors of roasted malts, sweet milk chocolate, toffee, and molasses. Medium body with soft carbonation.
330ml bottle. Pours a jet black draught with garnet highlights (Lovibond 39). Smells, well, actually, of nothing. Figured there would be more to whiff. Tastes very sweet! Sickly sweet. They added sugar to this, but at least it has a brown sugar flair. There are undercurrents of fruit, berries, coffee and bananas but the sweetness is overwhelming until it warms later on. Then it's not so cloying. Palate is soft, somewhat watery. Meh, not too bad. Luckily I like sweeter brews. Definitely one of the sweetest I've tasted.
This is a sweet/chocolatey stout that goes down too smooth. Only 6.5% ABV so I am not sure why the label says "Extra Stout." Pour almost jet black with a full, brownish head. A great stout for those folks who like sweetness in their brew.