Boulder Beer Obovoid Empirical Stout

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

22oz bomber from discount liquor, Milwaukee. Opaque black body with creamy, pancake head, some lacing. Smokey, roasty aroma with subtle sweetness, big coffee, chocolate. Cold coffee, roasted malt flavor, a little cherry, very dried out, it actually dries out my tongue. Medium body and nice carbonation. Really interesting, more coffee flavor than anything else, there is some oak, but not a whole lot.

Breakfast in a bottle. A roasty aroma. Quite a bit of vanilla in this. Some hoppiness in the finish. Light color. pretty good overall.

Thank you Tom/After4ever. It’s black with a red hue and a huge, creamy, light brown head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, light vanilla and oak. The flavour has a light sweetness, notes of roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, light vanilla and oak before it ends with a slightly burnt bitterness and a citrussy dryness. It could have been stronger in the oak note and could have been more complex, but I like it anyhow!

Pours a dark brown with a light brown, but small head. No aroma to speak of except perhaps a light caramel sweetness. Rather thin stout flavor. Good, but not very assertive. This is good, but not imperial.

Nice thick brown head of fine and dense bubbles. Rich and roasty aroma with lots of roasted granis, milk chocolate, cherry cordial and some other dark fruit. Very dark port brown in color. Loads of roasted grains again, bitter dark chocolate, raisins and a touch of alcohol. The alcohol is more prominent than expected for a 7.5% ABV. Finishes roasty with some bitterness and roastyness. A pretty good stout.

22oz from Warehouse Beverage, Cleveland Heights. Fizzy pour, opaque, and a fairly crisp head. The oak is present in the nose, and comes across as fairly one-dimensional vanilla. Initial sips promise a nice integration between the barrel aging and the chewy roasts of the oatmeal. But funnily enough it gets less complex as it warms, first syrupy and then quite thin and anonymously malty. After a strong start, it’s a disappointing finish.

THE OAK AGING IS PRESENT IN THE SMELL AND TASTE. HAS HINTS OF CHOCOLATE. GREAT BEER IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR JUST ONE.

Bottle and draft. Pours a dark stout black with a tan vanilla head. Aroma and flavor is sweet malt, chocolate malt, a very present roasty bitterness runs dieep in this stout. Unimpressive in both forms.