Boulder Beer Obovoid Empirical Stout

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

Tap at HDG. Black colour with a thick tan head. Fairly hoppy aroma. Resiny hops and roasty dark chocolate. Flavour is also quite hoppy. Thinnish body but with lots of roasted malt bitterness and plenty of dry-hopped character. Very herbal bitterness. An unusual beer, but it works pretty well.

I like a nice deep black beer. Now this one isn’t Ten FIDY black or anything. Slightly lighter shade of colorlessness than that. But still nice.

22 oz. bottle from Plaza Liquors - Pours a clear brown color with a one and a half finger thick light tan head. Light spotty lacing. Aroma is light oak, herbal hops, and roasted malt. Flavor is woody (oak), light chocolate, and roasted malt. The oak lingers on the palate. Medium body. This beer is missing the body and character that so many bigger stouts have. Still, a decent beer.

Bottle. Sweet coco roasted aroma. Bock body with tan head. Good sweet roast with some medium biteerness. Easy on the palate good beer.

great taste with a Dark pourwith a off white head, very deep Oak malty flavor.

bomber. dark black pour. clingy medium white head. chocolate and malt aroma. roasty, malty, sweet and milky taste. feels a little thin. pretty good.

Courtesy of gillard. Pours deep dark with dark brown edges. It has a nice mocha looking head and some sheet lacing. The aroma is a nice mix of burnt malts and oak. I also get roasted malts, mild oatmeal twang and a hint of coffee. The taste begins feeling a bit thin. I seem to get a neutral taste to start followed by roasted malts and bold burnt malts. Into the finish a brief oak note surfaces before mild malt astringency shows up to add some balance to the richer maltier notes. The oatmeal twang is very light and just noticeable. A lingering burnt malt note heads deep into the after taste.

Pours opaque black with a nice looking head. Aroma is lovely with roasted malts and oak in the foreground. Mouth feel is thinner than I expected, but I don’t think that’s a bad thing. Flavor is quite good with a lot of roasted almost burnt overtones. Hop bitterness is kept to a minimum in this beer, but there is just enough to balance. Sadly the oak does not come through as strongly as I’d like, but this is a very enjoyable beer.