BruRm @ BAR Damn Good Espresso Stout

Brewed by BruRm @ BAR
Style: Imperial Stout
New Haven, Connecticut USA

Serve in Snifter

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Pours dark brown with a light brown head. Smells of pronounced coffee, rich dark malt, spicy. Tastes of coffee, bitter, dark chocolate, velvety mouthfeel with some clove elements on the finish.

Reviewed at BAR on my phone... please forgive any odd auto corrections. Poured to the brim, not much head, but that’s due to the pour. Smells is a bit odd, cold coffee and lactose... almost a sour type of smell. Taste is just like the smell, but the sour is first, then smooth into a coffee finish with a lot of roasted flavors then followed. This sour punch up front, though, I don’t think is what they are going for. Maybe the lines are REALLY dirty? possible initial stages of infection? If this is actually what they are going for, I think they overdid it with the lactose. That initial up front is off-putting. It does smooth out on the finish with a nice creamy roasted coffee flavor, though. To compare, espresso teri blows this out of the water. This one is medium bodied, a little on the light side actually. Asked about the lactose, was told the brewer is not here, and she didn’t know. I guess she asked someone else, no lactose... there must be something wrong with this then.