Marston's Oyster Stout

Tools and oysters indeed.

Nice creamy head on this, very attractive. Then you smell it and oh dear, it's all metallic sourness and arse I'm afraid, backing up a piddly 4.5% abv. Unfortunately the taste follows this trend, sweaty sort of watery caramel, metallic notes.

Having given this a few days now and still feeling oddly sick when I think about it, I have to ponder if this now qualifies as bad as our other recent contender. It's a lucky escape for Marston's from only the second flat zero ever awarded, only because I'm not sure if it's this beer, or the style overall that is the real culprit here. 0.5