Big Rock Espresso Stout

Formerly brewed at Big Rock Brewery
Style: Stout
Calgary, Canada

Serve in English pint

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Originally reviewed Feb. 15, 2007: whoa. i had hopes for this brew for some reason. poured with no head. no lacing. aroma reminds me of dust. stale coffee bean dust. taste is reaching for the sky with an enormous amount of dull. aftertaste? it has to taste first. it wetted my mouth, but now makes me want a real beer. thats about all i can say about this. k bye.

341mL bottle poured a dark brown color with thin beige head and no lacing. Aroma was espresso coffee and some chocolate. Taste is a little malty sweet with prominent coffee flavors and a trace of chocolate. Body is a little thin for this style of beer and carbonation is light. This beer would have been much better with a heavier body.

Bottle. 5%. This was given to me as a Christmas gift. Aroma does the job, espresso, coffee beans, mild chocolate. Pours is a dismal, earthy brown with a weak brown foam, disappointing for a stout. Flavour is fairly bland, not undrinkable but fairly unsatisfying. A novelty beer at best.

The magnificent combination of coffee and stout is mostly forgotten in this Big Rock Brew. Aroma of coffee and malts. Taste is burnt coffee and malty. But overall, very bland. Dry and medium bodied. Overall, very average.

Poured a minescule brown head with little retention and almost zero lacing that sat on top of a dark brown brew. Aroma is quite good and consists of fresh burnt coffee beans, some chocolate, dusty, ....fish? can that be? and light hops. This beer needs more flavour and it would be a lot better. Tastes of burnt coffee and some malts. Taste is not terrible by any means, but very dissapointing for a stout. Then again, this is Big Rock. I don’t think they can do a stout properly. Way too watery for repeated enjoyment. Chalky finish and a weak dry bitterness. Seems light to medium bodied, nice carbonated swish and fairly smooth. Drinkable, but unsatifying.

Extremely dark brown body very close to being black slight reddish highlights around the edge of the glass, the small cap that was created during the pour all but vanished very quickly, nice looking body but shitty cap. Where the hell is the aroma, where is the intense coffee and chocolate aroma’s the bottle brags about, I almost smell nothing just some faint sour maltiness and that’s it. What the hell again, this taste like nothing its brown water, robust flavor (as stated on the bottle) my ass. There is some slight burnt malts coming through, but this is so watered down. This was a waste of beer, but it was drinkable because no flavor didn’t taste bad, but once again Big Rock has produced a sub par beer

33 cl bottle, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Dark brown, roasted malt aroma. Lighter body than anticipated, creamy smooth texture. Disappointing watery finish.

Coffee beans, maybe Kenyan? Dung, and overfresh yeast. Fittingly coffee brown, with light but dark head. Hits the lips sweet with cocoa, then coffee. Some bitter hops enter stage middle and perform to a backdrop of lightly roasted malt. Finish is rather thin but gentle. Feels light on the palate with slightly too much carbonation. Not as heavy or robust as I would have expected.

Thanks to Mark for the bottle! Poured very deep brown with just a feathery dusting of tan head. The aroma picked up sweeter coffee notes upfront with a light roast to it.. faint herbal and woody accents. The flavor had a little darker slant on the coffee paired with burnt black patent malts.. dry-roast on the edges and a little medicinal sourness.. short coffee and metallic finish. Light-medium bodied and dry on the palate with low carbonation.. OK feel for a lighter stout.

A dark clear reddish brown ale with a thick moka head. A skunked coffee aroma of espresso with light metallic notes. In mouth, a light watery stout, with light chocolate bitterness, pathetic and sad. No body whatsoever. Tasted in late nov. 2006. Bottle from Presario.