Deschutes Obsidian Stout

Brewed by Deschutes Brewery
Style: Stout
Bend, Oregon USA

This beer is as dark as the night. A very dark stout that gives the taste of heavy malts and produces a dark tinted head and it lasts. The finish is extremely dry, but worth it. a good beer.

Bottle. Pours black with a large, persistent tan head. Aroma is roasted malt, with a bit of coffee and hint of chocolate. Flavor is bitter roasted malt with some earthiness; very dry. The aftertaste is actually a bit more interesting than the initial flavor, with bitter chocolate, vanilla, and of course more roast. A well-made dry stout.

Bottle: Pours black with a light tan head, nice lacing. Aroma, roasty, faint chocolate and coffee, with earthy quality. Flavor, roasted malts, some dry bitterness, and some coffee. Definitely on the dry side, not much sweetness at all. Palate is fizzy to start but smooths out as it goes down.

Bottle. [thanks to after4ever]. Pours a grand-looking black (only slightly brown edges on my (well-chosen) Guinness pint glass). Head is fizzy as I pour, but it settles as a thick, lacing brown whipped cream on top of the blackness. Aroma is mild and sweet - but certainly not weak. There is a clear definition of cocoa, a touch of vanilla and distant coffee. I sense a touch of yeastyness coming through as well. I was initially surprised by the mouthfeels fizzyness, entering my mouth and dancing a little around on my tongue. But it soon settles and a distinct creamyness comes through. Flavour is quite dry, almost like taking a piece of dark chocolate and letting it melt in your mouth. The vanilla comes through the cocoa, roasted and mild coffee tones to balance it out nicely. Only bad(ish) thing is that the initial flavour on drinking it is quite limited, only for the aftertaste to really come through.

pours obsidian with thin dark khaki head. aroma smooth coffee and cocoa with a little toffee malt. taste is coffee and cocoa with a slight sweetness peeking through. finish dry bitter with some roasted malt astringence. solid stuff (very very similar to a stout i just made at home).

pours obsidian with thin dark khaki head. aroma smooth coffee and cocoa with a little toffee malt. taste is coffee and cocoa with a slight sweetness peeking through. finish dry bitter with some roasted malt astringence. solid stuff (very very similar to a stout i just made at home).

This one poured quite black, I guess that name isn’t an ironic one. Quite a sweet smelling aroma, with a bit of molasses, but on tasting it was dry. A bit of nuttiness in the aftertaste. A little lacking in body, but overall it’s a decent drop.

Pours black with a thick tan head that reduces to a noticeable film. A nicely pungent aroma composed mainly of hops with some roasted or earthy malt tones mixed in. The more I smell, the more different aromas I find. Initial flavor has the bite of the hops, but it gives way to the chocolate/burnt malt flavors that dominate the finish. It’s a very noticeable and nice transition. It’s not too heavy on the tongue - a nice medium bodied beer. Great finish that leaves me wanting more. I think I’ll stock up on this one.