{"id":499,"date":"2012-12-10T14:14:38","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T14:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/?p=499"},"modified":"2025-05-28T16:47:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T16:47:50","slug":"dragon-stout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Stout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I ended up in a CostCutter on Edgeware Road, near Colindale, London. We finished work in Earls Court and dived in here on the way home. I was surprised to find that it had a large\u00a0selection\u00a0of bottled beers as well as the usual cans of lager which you expect at a late night\u00a0convenience\u00a0shop. This bottle of Dragon Stout (7.4%) caught my eye having never heard of it before. It is brewed by Desnoes &amp; Geddes of Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG0739.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-503\" title=\"DragonStout2\" src=\"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG0739-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-502\" title=\"Dragon Stout\" src=\"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMAG0738-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pour and colour: The stout pored with no head what so ever. Very dark in colour, but not quite black. I would have said a very dark mahogany brown but held up to the light was more reddy hue. Very simalar to coca-cola.<\/p>\n<p>Aroma: There was a hard alcoholic kick in the back of the nose, cheap red wine.<\/p>\n<p>Taste: It is sweet but not sugary, red berrys, dark fruity flavours. I know this is a terrible tasting note but it&#8217;s all I can think of when I try this beer and that&#8217;s some home-brew red wine I made last year using e-z caps and Welchs grape juice. There was a harsh alcoholic burn as well.<\/p>\n<p>Mouth feel: Thick, sticky and sugary. Highly carbonated, loosing carbonation as the beer goes down &#8211; \u00a0by the end completely flat.<\/p>\n<p>After-taste: lingering irony blood like taste. There was a dryness in the mouth with subtle hop bitterness which sticks in the back of the throat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final Verdict:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2 \/ 10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For me this really wasn&#8217;t to taste. I was expecting the usual stout flavours but it seemed like it was made with grape juice of something odd. The alcoholic kick was quite harsh. Not really enjoyed at all.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Available at <a title=\"costcutter.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.costcutter.com\" target=\"_blank\">CostCutter<\/a>, Colindale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I ended up in a CostCutter on Edgeware Road, near Colindale, London. We finished work in Earls Court and dived in here on the way home. I was surprised to find that it had a large\u00a0selection\u00a0of bottled beers as well as the usual cans of lager which you expect at a late night\u00a0convenience\u00a0shop. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booze","travel-monster-post","no-post-thumbnail","latest_post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1097,"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/likelymoose.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}