Boulder Beer Obovoid Empirical Stout

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

deep black pour with a medium tan head that doesnt retain well and minimal lacing. has a significant roasted malt aroma ad smells subtley of chocolate milk. it has more flavor than the aroma suggests with a nice hoppiness that balances chocolate and mild anise flavors. mouthfeel is creamy with a chocolately but slightly chalky finish.

Bottle on 12/28/2008 from River City Cellars. Dark black body with a medium creamy light brown head. Sweet chocolate, roast, light coffee, oak, and a bit of floral hops. Roasty, chocolate and floral hop flavor, some coffee hints with a bit of oak, fairly bitter. Medium full body with moderately low carbonation.

Sampled with Barrios and Butters. Very dark in color. DARK brown almost black body. On nose picked up roasted walnuts aromas with bits of cola. Not as think on the palate as I would have expected for a stout. Bitter cacoa and coffee. Not bad. Wouldn’t buy on my own though.

Bottle with Butters for my 100th. Pours a tan head and dark brown body. Smells of chocolate and sweet roasted malt. Tastes of coffee, chocolate, and roasted malt. Medium body with a slight bitter finish.

As you’d expect, this is black, but with a thin head. The aroma is thin, smoky, moldy even. Very thin body for what I expected ... very thin ... light smoke, ash, bitter chocolate. Not much to it for a supposedly ’big’ stout. (#3483, 11/2008)

Bottle. Pours black with a thick tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, bitter chocolate, and alcohol. Flavor of bitter chocolate initially and then lots of crystal malt (apparently I’m quite sensitive to crystal malt). Ok beer but a little boring. 7/4/6/4/14 (3.5/5)

Bottle, I guess about a year old since the new batch just came out, and this was not the new batch. Did not know and never would have guessed this was oak aged. Aroma quite chocolaty (semi-dark) with bitter coffee, roasted malt. Flavor again chocolate forward. Coffee finish. Full-bodied, strong malt and chocolate. Very good, especially for a beer that’s a year old.

Bottle. Pours a very dark brown/black, small tan head, minimal lacing. Aroma is subdued chocolate, coffee and roasted malt. Flavor is more of the same, though the chocoalte and roasted malt dominate the profile. Never really picked up the oak notes anywhere along the way, but it did seem as though the oak may have mellowed out the bitterness in the finish.