Boulder Beer Obovoid Empirical Stout

Yaaaammmmyyyyy... Luscious beer. They can keep the name though. Pours with a very creamy tan head and plenty o lace. Creamy svelte body, just a bit of tang at the end. Bitter chocolate and coffee beans, can almost feel the crunch. Short finish. Good stuff Maynard. Having a bottle of this at Bodega Brew Pub downtown La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Brown black with a reasonably sized tan head and nice lacing. Aroma is a bit chocolatey with some brown sugar. Taste is same with a bit of bitter roast. Relatively light in body, it has a bit of tannic astringency. $5.75/22oz

Bottle. Aroma of dark toasted malt, could be some coffee, chocolate and oak. It’s a strong aroma. Near opaque brown/black color with a decent tan head. Near full bodied with creamy carbonation. It has an oak bite to go with dark toasted malt, and a touch of coffee. Finishes dry, slightly astringent and a little woody and bitter. Leaves the mouth a bit stunned. It’s pretty good.

Draft at the spring lounge. Poured dark with a brownish colored head. An OK oatmeal stout but on the chocolatey side. Not awesme not terrible.

Pours very dark with a crimson hue and a tannish head. The aroma has some oak, lots of cream, milk chocolate, coffee bitterness and a good amount of roast. Medium / full body with some prickly carbonation. The flavor starts fairly thin with a good amount of charry roasted malt, some spice and chocolate. The finish is sharp and crisp. Not really the most traditional stout, but quite decent.

22 oz bottle, via trade, I think with SoLan & TheCheeseMan. Pours a dark brown, almost black body under a nice fluffy foamy light brown head that had long retention due to the fairly active carbonation. The nose is very roasty, bordering on being burnt and acrid, with a lot of husky and nutty grain notes. Some light roast coffee and chocolate malt. The flavor is just a bit too over roasted and astringent to really get too into this one. It reminds me of day old coffee that’s been re-heated more than once. I would never have guessed that this was an oak-aged beer either, must have been oak chips and not aged for very long. Finishes with moderate bitterness, strong coffee, and some green leafy hops. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with a creamy texture and moderate fizzy prickly carbonation. It was a little hard to put down the entire bottle.

Roasted, coffee, chocolate, some oak, and oatmeal are all evident in this stout. I paid about eight bucks for a bomber and was dissapointed in the product. I din’t understand the name, Obovoid, either.

22oz. bottle. Roasty, semi-sweet chocolate aroma with light touches of oak and earthy hop, that as it warms, gains the suggestion of a short stack of dinerhouse-style chocolate chip pancackes, covered in butter and maple syrup and with a steaming cup of creamy, sugary coffee sitting nearby. Ebony in color with a tan head that diminishes and light wisps of lace. Flavor contains a solid amount of dark chocolate sweetness and roasty espresso notes, some faint oak and vanilla in the background throughout, and finishing with a drying, lightly smoky, earthy, almost peaty character, and touches of prune and light bitterness. Creamy, smooth and gently warming on the palate, body is medium-full. Interesting and surprisingly drinkable.