Alchemist Beelzebub

Brewed by The Alchemist
Style: Stout
Waterbury, Vermont USA

Serve in English pint

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Draft at brewpub. Potent smoky coffee aroma. Dark brownish black body, creamy light brown head. Flavor is assertively of roasted malt, coffee, and chocolate, medium sweet. Refreshing lightly bitter finish. Tasty.

Draft @ the brewpub. Black pour tan head, shown no light is getting through. Hoppy pine, earthy, light citrus aroma notes accompany some chocolate and roasted malt. This is a well done compilation of a well hopped stout, sweet yet bitter and delicious. Darkness?.

Draft. Pours a thick black body with a tan head. Very roast y body reminds me immediately of surly darkness. Bitter hop tones, light pine, and roasted malt. Coffee and chocolate malt, very thick and full bodied. Overall excellent beer, its a treat to taste another marriage of hops and malt, and get it right.

Draft at the brewpub back in Nov 2010: dark black with a frothy tan head, aroma of coffee and hops, taste similar to a black IPA but way smoother, very malty and full bodied. Excellent.

From tap at the brewpub. Pours dark brown to black with a small tan head. Aroma is dark roasted malt and slight alcohol. Dark roasted malt, alcohol and mild chocolate note. Ends dry and roasted to slight bitter finish.

On tap at the brewpub. Poured black with a dark brown head that lasted throughout the beer and laced thickly. Flavor was full of roasted malt with some smoke, chocolate and backing hoppiness. There was also a decent amount of alcohol on the nose. Flavor was similar with chocolate and roasted malts being backed by pine hops with a decent amount of alcohol in the finish.

BQ2010. On draft at the brewpub in Waterbury, VT. An uber-bitter ipa... Ripping at the seems with oily, juicy hops. Andrew puts it perfectly with, "Hearty chocolate malts in the backing. Epic and over the top."

In short: A mega-hoppy ultra heavy roasted and chocolaty stout. A great BIG beer.
How: Tap at brewpub
The look: Black body topped by a medium tan head
In long: Nose is full of piney and resinous hops on top of a chocolate cake. Taste is intense. Big floury chocolate cake, lots of black bitter black chocolate (the bars with high cacao %), some dates and figs. Body is full, almost too full, could be served in a plate with a fork. Very assertive hops, very resinous and piney. Bitterness level is high. A bit dry in the finish. As heavy as this beer is (and IT IS heavy) I had no sweetness sensation from start to finish. Ok, this is a tasty beer, very tasty. Yet another big American beer named after a form of demon while countless Pokemons are still waiting to have big beers named after them.

Tried this beer while on Beer Quest 2010 with the guys. This was beer number 35. It was not that much different from the non-conditioned Beelzebub except the typical cask qualities.
Earlier Rating: 1/4/2010 Total Score: 4.2
Had this beer as part of Beer Quest 2010 with the guys. This was beer number 32. Pours black with brown head. Aroma is floral and hops. Flavor is a little bitter floral. Coffee roasts and deliciousness.

On tap at the brewpub in Waterbury VT. An ultra bitter ipa... Ripping at the seems with oily, juicy hops. Hearty chocolate malts in the backing. Epic and over the top.

Cask. A deep dark stout with a thick moka head. Pungeant hops and light chocolate, earthy and intense. In mouth, herbal organic stout, with good intense chocolate and herbal hops. Rich and intense. On tap at brewpub, Nov. 29 2008, Alchemist’s 5th Anniversary.