Blue Ridge (SC) XXX Total Eclipse Stout

Brewed by Blue Ridge Brewing Co. (SC)
Style: Stout
Greenville, South Carolina USA

Serve in English pint

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Hoppy bitter for a stout. My guess is that it was also a bit light for a stout so there wasn’t an abundance of malt covering the hops. Good head.

Draft at the brewpub. Pours a very dark brown color with a thin creamy tan head. Decent head retention. Aroma of sweet roasted malts with earthy notes. The taste is roasted malts, caramel with a bitter hop finish. Medium bodied.

Pours nearly black. Strong aroma of coffee & roasted malt. Full-bodied flavors of smoke & roasted grain. Falls a little flat mid-palate, but not bad overall.

Draft @ the brewpub. Pours a dark brown almost black color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty chocolate aroma. Roasted malty chocolate and caramel flavor. Has a roasted malty chocolate finish.

Dark black-brown, dark tan head. Aroma is roasty, dry astringent, coffee. Taste is slight roast, chocolate, lightly smoky.

Tastes weak, needs more body. What flavor is present is good. A combination of light chocolate and coffe, both toasty and a little nutty. Faint carbonation.

Draught at the brewpub. Pours brown-black with khaki head. The aroma is slightly smoky with thorough roastiness, some chocolate and toffeee notes. The flavor is clean roastiness with peanut notes and a mild acidity. Bitter chocolate and wood come out in the finish. Definitely on the lighter side, but not too bad.

Dark color, pretty much black, with a medium sized tan head. The first flavor I noticed was coffee then some light roasted maltiness with bitter hops following. I thought this beer was a tad thin and I really could sum it up with coffee and some bitter hops being pretty much what I got out of it. Still, it wasn’t bad at all and definitely a decent drink.

Opaque pour, almost no aroma with this. Light roasted malt. Some coffee, roasted/burnt malts, very little if any chocolate. Needed just a little more of pretty much everything you expect from a stout. It was very drinkable however. Of the 3 I sampled, this was probably the best at BRBC.

Appearance: Opaque black body with a small, thin khaki-colored head. Smell: Aroma of unsweetened chocolate and anise with just a dash of black coffee. Taste: Dark chocolate and spicy anise start the taste. Just when a mild sweetness begins to emerge the earthy, roasty bitterness kicks in and last into the finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-thin body. Mild carbonation. Drinkability: Solid for one of those less-than-sweet stouts.

Black body with tan head. Aroma is medium sweet, roast, some coffee, light chocolate. Taste is mild sweet, roast, some coffee, light burnt. Light-medium body.