 lithy (1600), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Feb 9, 2009 Dark black, soft tan head. Aroma of chocolate, soy sauce, roasty malt. Taste is more chocolate, soy sauce, roasty body, thin feel, alcohol finish.
Suttree (2701), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Feb 1, 2009 Black, so no false advertising there. Lots of coffee and some yeasty fruityness. Flavor is a mix of coffee, blueberry and some roasty flavors, and some more yeasty flavors. Nice stuff.
brigg (213), Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Jan 27, 2009 (bottle) Big, brown head whose bubbles cascade down at first, then stabilize and expand to make big pockets and craters. Body is opaque and black. A roasty aroma, but still sweet; nuts, chocolate, earthy, leathery. There a tad sweetness up front but quickly dries out. Dark roasted, slightly burnt flavor of chocolate and coffee beans. Acidic and mildly bitter. Full bodied.
Gypsy19 (604), California, USA
Jan 26, 2009 Pours black with a large head. Aroma is strong, of roast coffee beans, chocolate, and a little licorice. Flavor is about the same. This is your basic stout in style, but a very high-quality one. Very nice flavor, but not at all offensive, and rather smooth. The slight alcohol burn was nice. Overall excellent. Perhaps the best non-Imperial stout I’ve had thus far. Thanks Allagash.
jkwalking05 (1483), Arlington, Texas, USA
Jan 23, 2009 Black in color with a medium sized beige head. Aroma is heavy in yeast with a slight roasty character. Taste is of coffee, yeast, and roasted malts with a slight chocolate flavor.
tomthompson89 (1460), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jan 20, 2009 poured brown basically black beige foam nose is Belgian spices and funkyness, smell is booze some dark malts. flavor is roasty a little thin, some coffee and choc. good beer. very interesting.
alexsdad06 (1056), Ohio, USA
Jan 19, 2009 750 ml bottle. Pours black with a medium mostly lasting frothy beige head. The aroma is an interesting combination of Belgian yeast and roasted malts with dark chocolate and cocoa. The flavor had baker’s chocolate, roasted malt, caramel, mild coffee, yeast, and wood. This was dry and finished toward the bitter side. Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
BeerBelcher (930), Columbus, Ohio, USA
Jan 18, 2009 There seem to be a lot of brewers experimenting with "Belgian style" stouts lately...or at least I seem to be trying a lot of them for the first time lately. They tend to fall in one of a few categories: either they are Un-Belgian-y (just stout-like and roasty), too Belgian-y (Buffalo Belgian Stout), or just right (Weyerbacher XIII). I would put this one in the Un-Belgian-y category...there was plenty of roastiness, but none of the mouthfeel or yeast or spice notes that I associate with Belgian-style beer.
It was black, it was roasty, it was ot very Belgian-y. It reminded me of a milk stout, and a very good milk stout at that. I would suggest that this beer is not exactly on-target (as far as the description is concerned) but I nonetheless thought this to be a very good beer.
I bought this at Rick’s Wine on Duke Street in Alexandria, VA. I enjoyed it with SurlySober and Flyer at a tasting at my house which also included RR Beatification and Westvleteren 12 (quite respectable, eh?).
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