Newcastle Cabbie Black Ale

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Pours a nice dark brown color with no head. The aroma is of malt and very light fruit. The mouthfeel is medium and smooth. The taste is malt and light notes of coffee and chocolate. Light enough to introduce to a new dark beer drinking friend.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

Pours a clear cola brown with a thick, pale buff head. Malty aroma has hints of caramel and licorice. Flavor is, well, mild - but pleases with malty and caramel notes and a snip of cloves. Smooth texture is not so fizzy, but fairly firm. Just what you should call after a few. ;)

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 6

A ruby-brown colored beer. A small, three finger, sudsy textured, off white head rises briefly above. It settles fairly quickly leaving practically no lacing. The nose more muted. The general profile, burnt sugar and caramel. Actually I'm enjoying the taste. Medium bodied, a little slick.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 4

After having the Beck's Sapphire, which I thought was a dark lager (and sucked badly), I decided to try this one which is more of the style I expected from the other (and I am not a big fan of the original Newcastle). Part of a mix sixer at Albertsons in Vegas. Pours a clean dark copper colour, looking like cola, but the head is quite nice with some beige froth, good retention and lots of spotty soap lacing. Kind of a different aroma to this one, with some strong hoppy adjuncts, giving out licorice notes with caramel in the back. Flavours of roasted malts with Perrier water and hints of butterscotch. Kind of a weird black lager overall and still not a fan of this brand. Better than the Sapphire though.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Dark cola brown body, with a thick beige head, the lacing is thick. Aroma of roasted malts, almost burnt, mild herbal hops. Flavors of roasted malt and hints of toffee, some sourness floats in and out. Overall its o.k. not much else to say.