 redlight (1040), Winter Park, Florida, USA
Apr 28, 2008
Sweet black malts on the nose, dark fruits, sweet chocolate with hints of coffee in the aroma. Pours very dark brown with reddish edges with a thin tan head. Very light, sweet dark malts, with a crisp bite. The flavor starts out with some vanilla, some hints of coffee, with a bitter chocolate flavor in the end. It seems to be missing something though, tastes more like a porter i’d say.
adrian910ss (1000), philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Aug 6, 2008 Bottle courtesy of Slipstream. Pours almost pitch black with a ruby tint and a medium light brown head. Unfiltered with a lot of hops floating around. Aroma of dark roasted malt, dark coffee beans and dark chocolate. Taste of bitter roasted malts, dark chocolate with a hint of dark coffee.
pojo41 (295), Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA
Aug 1, 2008 Dark brown almost black pour. Pretty good, off-white head that stayed for a while. Pretty good lacing. Nice dark chacolate and dark malt aroma. Tastes of dark roasted malt, dark roasted coffee and dark chocolate. Enough hop bitterness to balance out the flavors. This had a good, medium bodied mouthfeel. Pretty easy to drink.
oteyj (298), Canterbury, New Hampshire, USA
Jul 31, 2008 Black pout with copious tan head. Aroma is of chocolate, and heavily roasted, though not burnt malt. Vanilla and coffee as well. Flavor is very sweet for a stout- mocha and roasty malt dominate. Lots of chocolate and coffee. Palate is dissapointingly thin- almost watery. Would be exceptional if not for the horrendously thin body and completely non existant aftertaste. Nice though.
sir_Pino (483), Zawiercie / Żywiec, Poland
Jul 30, 2008 No 436
Rated: 17.06.2008
Bottle brown, 375 ml
Appearance: Pours pitch black body colour, carbonation is practically not visible because of the body colour, there is practically no rubby hue when taken under the light, head is small but firm and practically lasting in 100% of initial size. Head colour is brown and head is thick in its texture. There is fair lacing.
Aroma: Nice deep and essential roasted barley, notes of honey, fresh citrusy hops, clementine, orange peal, burned sugar, some easy distinguishable notes of caramel, resin, burned wood, creamy, notes of cappuccino.
Flavour: Dusty nose, very bitter roasted barley, coffee, coco, dark bread, burned peanuts, cherries, wood, resin, very essential and focused taste, alcohol is felt in a moderate way, some accidity and minerality, alcoholic warmth on palate, orange peal and clementine, citrusy accents from Australian hops. Finish duration is long. Very strong bitterness at finish, with pronounced burned - roasty touch.
Palate: Body is medium, texture is dry to creamy, carbonation on palate is mild, finish feel is moderate to heavy astringent, dusty to chalky and moderate alcoholic.
cellar (320), Dublin, Ireland
Jul 27, 2008 Pitch black, long lasting cafe au lait head. Strong malty notes of liqourise, over ripe fruit, dark chocolate, some pepper developes in mouth. Flavour is sweet in beginning but a good bitternees wins the long finish.
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