 gotohelunc (309), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Mar 10, 2008
Bottle. Great lookin’ bottle with a cool ass prirate. There’s a weird, quick forming, quickly leavin’ head on this thing. No sediment. I just about had to pour this thing down my nose until I could smell anything, and at that point all I got was a distant waft of sour chocolate. Tastes like...uh...not a lot? Sugar? Caramel? Really watery coffee that’s been left on the burner for way too long? Yeah, that’s the one! I’m really just guessing because it’s all so mild and so buried in a lack of balance that I can’t tell what they’re going for. How can you be both unbalanced and watered down? Congrats on pulling off a difficult trick, you beach bums. I’ll keep buying your beers that look cool in the bottle, just not thing mess again.
bitbucket (1434), Kirkland, Washington, USA
Jul 5, 2008 Bomber. Thanks to TURDFERGUSON for answering my call for local stouts! Pours clear dark brown with a lacy off-white head. Chocolate nose with the slightest hint of pine. Light watery body and medium-light carbonation. The taste is mostly fruit with a hint of coffee. Nondescript sour finish.
Gotta tell you Azalea, this is the most craptastic stout I’ve ever had - a completely disappointing mess. I can get a hell of a lot more chocolate out of my homebrewed porter, and I don’t need to add Hershy’s Cocoa Powder. In a blind tasting, I would have said this is an infected brown ale that could use more hops, body and carbonation.
timsilvia32 (31), born in Michigan, North Carolina, USA
Jul 4, 2008 Starts out fine enough, pours a black brown, light head in color and thickness. If you could just look at it, this would be a fine stout. Don’t drink it! Imagine leaving about a quarter cup of cheap merlot sitting out for about 3 days and mixing it with a can of Guiness. Agree with the hint of cranberry in some of the other reviews, bitter/sour throughout and through the finish. I thought it was horrible, would have been better off spending the 6 bucks on a sixer of miller light. The bottle does look cool in the collection though.
turbo (1240), Arizona, USA
May 16, 2008 Looks like coke in the glass with a decent head.
Thin, watery body with a sweet chocolate and coffee aroma and flavor.
Bitter bite on finish.
NachlamSie (1304), Tennessee, USA
Apr 19, 2008 Bomber. Has a dark ruby color in the lamp with a soapy, small head. The nose has hints of raisins, chocolate, coffee, and noticeable diacetyl. Wow. This stuff is really flat on the palate. Almost no chocolate or roasty flavor is evident. I get a weird cranberry type flavor with some corn maybe. This is really disappointing. Blind, I don’t think I could even identify this as a stout. I need to follow this one up with something more fulfilling.
ahalloin (34), Arlington, Virginia, USA
Apr 15, 2008 The bottle is totally sweet with a label that looks like a treasure map and a grinning pirate with a braided beard. Arrrh, matey! I bought the bottle for the label. Let’s see how the beer is. Pours a dark brown that isn’t quite "stout black". In fact, it is almost translucent. Not normal for a stout. The head is a light tan, very thin, and recedes almost immediately. The aroma is pretty week with hints of barley, a touch of cocoa.
Now for a taste...... ARRRRH! What be-ith this swill? Methinks someone poisoned me drink! The flavor is rather unmemorable with a sour bitterness that reminds me of cough syrup and maybe a hint of the Hershey cocoa powder. The mouthfeel is fairly thin. At least the ABV is high. I would suggest passing on this until they start melting down REAL chocolate for the boil and using some dark grain.
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