2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pour is a dark brown with a fluffy tan head. Smell is ashy and leather. Taste is peaty leathery earthy and ashey. Kinda like burnt cig ashey.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
12oz bottle poured into glass. Dark black pour with a thin head. Aroma has sweet hints of chocolate, cherries, and caramel. Flavor is sweet with hints of coffee, vanilla and chocolate. A good solid sweet stout.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
This brew has a deep brown body with a short-live messy head. Smells a lot like chocolate, coffee and even some earthy tones as well. Favors... a creamy chocolate body with a pleasant roasty finish. Leaves the mouth dry and nutty, overall very balanced and drinkable.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottled. Poured murky brown (near black), with just a swirl of head. The aroma picked up candied milk chocolate and molasses, paired with a little vanilla.. Hershey’s syrup-ish.. smelled like it was going to be very sweet. The flavor found sweeter chocolates joined by a little darker stuff.. light cocoa bitterness on the edges.. odd detergenty notes on the back.. chocolate came back around for the finish.. roasty and disjointed. Medium-bodied and a little sharp at times on the palate.. this didn’t quite come together.
2.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
obsidian in color. medium brown head. light hints of chocolate, deep berry aroma. tastes a little watered down to me, the flavors are great, just faint. carbonation level rather mediocre. potential is there, but it just was off to me.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
355 ml bottle. From Pottsville, PA.
Black colour with tiny tan head.
Coffee, malt, oatmeal and rancid butter in aroma.
Roasted malt, oatmeal, coffee and dry hops in flavour.
Coffee in aftertaste.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
8/15/2009
Pours a solid black with a smallish tan head that dissipates quickly. Smells of milk chocolate, toffee, a slight dark fruit and a touch of alcohol. Taste starts you off with a bit of dried fruits, segue to some alcohol, chocolate, an acridic bitterness, and a long lingering roasted bitterness. It finishes like a dry stout. Mouthfeel is smooth and creamy, carbonation is low, body is a bit thinner than I would have liked. Overall not a bad brew, I would have loved a bit more body. There are better beers out there to spend my money on.
4.1 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
opaque black with a thin tan head, sticky full body with medium carbonation.
aroma: chocolate and black malt, sweet lactose, and a touch of nutty oatmeal.
taste: chocolate and black malt, sweet lactose, and a hint of licorice.
too much lactose –in the body and the flavor.
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