Aotearoa Mata Black-Bru

Brewed by Aotearoa Breweries
Style: Stout
Kawerau, New Zealand

Serve in English pint

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Lord knows I love stout. I love it with a good man’s fervour: I love it, I love it, I love it. This beer will have to jump through hoops to impress me. As black as sin with a mocha head that sat, thinned and then clung to the sides of glass. Intensely chocolately aromas. Smells like chocolate self-saucing pudding and more savoury molasses aromas. There’s evidence of plenty of depth here. Doesn’t taste intensely sweet, but it it cool, unctuous and has good flavours of chocolate before some dry bitterness comes through, courtesy of the barley. Plenty of carbonation and a finish that isn’t long and lingering and certainly not short. Berry flavours come through here: blackcurrants and boysenberries.

330ml bottle. Pours a thick black engine oil colour with a delicate tan head that sits nicely before settling. Espresso coffee aroma with some roasted barley. Strong chocolate and coffee flavour that is robust and leaves a lingering burnt aftertaste in the mouth. Packs a bit of a punch and is well rounded and full bodied.

Thin biege head weakens to mild cover dark pour with tinge of red brown at the base of glass aroma vanilla chocolate caramel some richness there smoothness a coffee malt touch flavour roasted maltiness coffee dry taste caramel vanilla chocolate very smooth bitter coming out is well done vanilla right through the stout decent bitter aftertaste lasts long after the good malt sweetness flavours and dryness

Bottle. Does as it says on the label this. More chocolate in the nose, more coffee in the mouth. Lacking the dryness, but this make it very easy drinking. I’m having more!