3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
GABF 2005: Opaque with a small creamy tight head and good lace. The aroma has a big coffee nose with mocha and burnt malt, phenolic and slight fruit esters. The taste follows suit with a nice prune addition late in the game. The feel is bitting yet overall smooth and drinkable. Enjoy this stout only if you like coffee (I do)
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Draught at the pub. Appears opaque brown with no head. Some vinuous lacing on the glass. Coffee and chocolate dominate the nose. Roast coffee profile with a touch of chocolate sweetness. Body is a bit lacking, has a lingering char bitterness.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
A special treat as Mr. Rybinski treated my wife and I to a sample of this on our most recent visit. Pours dark and rich with a pale-tan skin of a head. Huge coffee aroma covers all with its savory roasts. Mid-bodied with a mild chocolate flavor trying to push through all that coffee. After an initial taste, MIke added a splash of Dirty Summer Blonde, which barely lightened its appearance yet added a beautiful chocolate sweetness to smooth out the coffee bitters. Lovely... I would rate this even higher in palate and flavor if it was the mixture that was up for review!
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3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Very dark brown with a bubbling light brown head, coffee dominates the nose backed by roasted sweet malt and a bit of chocolate. It’s a bit thin in the mouth, but the coffee flavor remains strong, nicely blended with sweet malt and a roasted, nutty taste. <font size=-4><a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/Places/ShowPlace.asp? Brewpub, Aurora, IL<font size=-1>
3.6 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
GABF ’05. Black body, bubbly tan head. Vanilla, chocolate, coffee, anda hint of bourbon barrel in the nose. Very inviting. The flavor is a bit watery starting w/ chocolate malt and continuing w/ coffe, bitter hops and light vanilla liquer.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Freshly brewed coffee aroma. Deep black with a thin limp head. Esspresso, baker’s chocolate, burnt malt, toast, and fresh roasting coffee. It’s actually put together fairly well.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Dark tan head sits on an opaque, midnight brown body. Mocha cocoa aroma, some semi-sweet chocolate morsels and a hint of lactose. Flavors come out to parry. Dark, dry chocolate surrounded by a chocolate mocha latte. Milk chocolate accents and a syrupy palate projection. Body is medium and a touch syrupy, but with a substantive trait that doesn’t detract. Chocolate and iced coffee finish. Quite possibly this brewery’s best.
2.7 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 10/20
this was a disappointment. not as much coffee in the nose as i hoped and not near enough in the taste either. i could taste the coffee and some chocolate a bit, but the taste that dominated this brew for me was diacytel. i have not been able to pick up this off flavor in a whole lot of beers, but in this one it really stood out and distracted from this pint quite a bit. otherwise, it was full bodied, silky and would have been a fne stout, but each sip was just way to buttery tasting.
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