Avery Coffeestopheles (Meph Addict)

Brewed by Avery Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Boulder, Colorado USA

Serve in Snifter

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A pitch black beer with a dark brown head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt, vanilla, alcohol, and coffee. The flavor is sweet with notes alcohol, malt - both sweet and roasted, vanilla, and alcohol, leading to a dry alcoholic finish.

Handbottle 18 cl. Courtesy of Doodler. Pours an opaque pitch black with a thick and creamy brown head. Intense aroma of hard roast malt, coffee, dark dried fruit and booze. Solid body, sweet heavy roast, again pruney dark fruits and a warming alcohol finish. Very delicious actually. 180611

18 cL handbottle, courtesy of Papsoe. Pours dark brown to black with a small tan head. Aroma is solid coffee herbal, dark roasted malt and slight chocolate. Sweet, chocolate, liqourice, coffee and thick dark malt. Bitter and lingering dark sweet flavoured. Ends roasted malty and coffee flavoured.

UPDATED: MAR 27, 2010
Date: February 27, 2010
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewfest, Brewvival
Appearance: black, frothy tan head, drippy lace
Aroma: big roasted coffee aroma mixed with bitter black chocolate
Flavor: rich roasted flavor, lots of coffee, black chocolate, sweet dark fruits
Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 3.8/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *** /4

(Draught) Pours an oily, opaque black body with a medium creamy tan head. Aroma of coffee, caramel, toffee, anise, butterscotch, vinous, plum, and roasted malt. Flavor of coffee, roasted malt, vanilla, marshmallow, caramel, toffee, rum raisins, coconut, wood, and light bourbon qualities with a dry, bitter, warming finish. Lots of layers of complexity in this imperial stout.

On tap at Capone’s. Dark brown pour with a small sized off white head. Coffee, roast, some dark fruits, grounds, licorice, and some vanilla. Very nice coffee presence - which for me, is a huge plus in a coffee beer! Over all the alcohol, for 15%+, well hidden. Very nice.

On tap at Avery. Pours with a pitch black hue and a lasting tan head. Ridiculous lace for the ABV. Glass coating. Aromas are rich, big, coffee, boozy (really a lot of alcohol), dark fruit and roast. Flavors are bitter, tar, fudge, chocolate, boozy and a bit of acrid roast. Very very boozy and very roasty. Big thick and hot with low carbonation. Tasty is small doses but can get a bit hard to drink.

UPDATED: MAR 31, 2009 Intensely rich, oily and thick black body. Nose is just saturated with this rich, sticky green, oily coffee bean aroma. Certainly vibrant, fresh, green, and excitable, but that’s about all I see going on in the nose... still, smells quite good. Body is ridiculously oily, thick, and smooth, and I think this is about as well as you can make one of these super-alcohol beers. Have to say it’s much, much better than any sample of regular Mephistopheles I’ve had. That one I’m not a big fan.

Draught. Pours opaque with an average, frothy, dark brown head, somewhat lasting with fair lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (coffee, toffee, burnt grain), average hops (flowers, perfume, grass), average yeast (leather) with notes of smoke, tar, wood, alcohol, raisin, date, and prune. Full bodied, alcoholic texture, average carbonation, and a dry-spicy finish. Long duration, heavy sweetness, acidity, and bitterness. Please bottle this one too!

Draft at Capone’s. Pours jet black with minimal tan head. Nose is black patent malt, cacao, dark fruit. Tastes richm very complex, with very well hidden alcohol, and flavors of malt, cacao, some espresso, and blackstrap molasses. Very good.