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Boulder Beer Obovoid Empirical Stout

Boulder Beer Obovoid Empirical Stout - Stout

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 Percentile 
88
overall
Brewed by Boulder Beer Company
Style: Stout

Boulder, Colorado USA

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
3313.51/5.03.5/5.0Winter7.5%83.5English pint
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Commercial Description:
Oak-aged oatmeal stout as dark in color as deep space. Again Obovoid on oak adds earthy character to the roasted notes and bittersweet chocolate finish derived from the black and chocolate malts.
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 JB175 (1654), Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Aug 24, 2008  
Darker brown pour with a slightly oaky aroma that mixes with chocolate, and roasty malts. Flavor is a bit chocolatey and roasty with a kind of one demensional oak profile. Smooth, but weaker feel. Not bad, but I was hoping for more.


 waolsen (1220), Littleton, Colorado, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/105/57/104/516/20
Aug 22, 2008  
bottle. black with huge frothy mocha milkshake style head. light malt, milk, chocolate, oat aroma. smooth and creamy. chocolate, roasted malts, milky oats. incredibly smooth. very nice offering from BBC.


 BuckeyeBoy (1639), Boise, Idaho, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/515/20
Aug 12, 2008  
22oz Bottle Pours out a back/brown topped with a tan head. Aroma of coffee, some chocolate and plenty of smoke. Tast nice and smooth. With some nice sweetness. Plenty of the roast malt also that smoke on the end.


 lb4lb (2011), Austin, Texas, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/515/20
Aug 8, 2008  
Pours mostly black with a touch of light getting through and a short lived beige head. Smell is coffee, ashy and burnt malt. Taste is roasty and ashy and burnt, again, and with some nice coffee flavor too. Not getting much creaminess from the oatmeal and its a bit bubbly for the style, but still tasty. A bit drying. Nice beer.


 Beershine (2678), Hue, Vietnam
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/103/514/20
Aug 6, 2008  
Opaque dark brown-black with very large off-white head, looks luscious. Rich coffee and chocolate aromas. Roasty like a mocha ganache. Maybe some cherry in the background. Very nice, mellow, smooth flavors with nice lasting dark chocolate finish. Soft palate. Nice, light impy that actually manages to feel refreshing.


oldbaldguy (17), , Minnesota, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Aug 4, 2008  
Not quite opaque, which I found odd for this style. I got quite a bit of vanilla in the nose with the oak coming out nicely and not overdone. Poured up nicely with a rich, decent head. I was a bit disappointed upon tasting this as I found it a bit lacking in complexity and the finish a bit thin with a slight lingering sweetness. Overall, not bad, but not quite what I was expecting.


 Drink4Satan (585), Bristol, Rhode Island, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/514/20
Aug 3, 2008  
Pours an opaque near-black colour with an ultra-dense beige head that leaves nice lacing. The nose is rich with milk and dark chocolate, vanilla, heavily roasted malts, oats and some citric hops. The flavour brings forth rich chocolate and coffee goodness, dried fruits, booze, oats and some vegetable-like hops (diacetle?). The initial taste is a little muted, but nice roasty coffee flavours stand out in the finish. Mid-palate, the dried fruit and chocolate flavours are most dominant. The aftertaste is bitter cocoa. The mouthfeel is a bit watery, but the flavours are nice and complex. Very nice.


Chia (42), Bristol, Rhode Island, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/59/104/515/20
Aug 3, 2008  
pours inch high tan puffy head, dark brown in color completely opaque, aroma contains subtle hint of both chocolate and vanilla extract with undertones of coffee and toffee. Taste has strong hints of coffee at first an finishes with an exquisite chocolate and vanilla blend witch lingers on your tongue for a long time.



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