Boulder Beer Obovoid Empirical Stout

Brewed by Boulder Beer Company
Style: Stout
Boulder, Colorado USA

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Brown, almost black pour with tan head. Chocolate, coffee and roasted malts aroma. Flavor is of chocolate, vanilla, coffee. Dry and bitter finish.

2007 Thanks BeerandBlues2! Dark pour, with some hints of light coming through the edges and a well-retained khaki head. Nice bitter-chocolate presence in the aroma with mild coffee-ish roast and a very subtle licorice note. Mouthfeel is well carbonated. Flavor is pleasant. Some bitter chocolate (like bakers chocolate), licorice spice hints, very mild coffee in the background and a good amount of hoppy resinous. The bitterness makes it very drinkable. No oak is detectable, but it’s a nice, well-hopped and easy drinking Stout.