2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Tap @ Estes Park. Dark brown with a tan head. Light chocolate malt aroma. Flavor is lightly roasty and chocolaty but very watery and thin. Hard to believe there is oatmeal in this one, it felt very thin and watery and kind of bland.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Roasted coffee nose. Black in color. A fairly bitter stout...ok, not bad.
Notes: Pub visit during ’09 GABF
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pours dark brownish with thin tan head. Aroma has some notes of roast, toffee, some cocoa powder, coffee and espresso. Taste is nice and smooth but a bit weak, some espresso, roast, toffee, some caramel, slight chocolate, finishing slightly bitter. Went really well with a brownie, but by itself was fairly plain.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottled. A pitch black beer with no head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt and soy sauce. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of roasted malt, soy sauce, and lighter notes of chocolate. The body is light.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
UPDATED: SEP 22, 2011 12 oz bottle. Pours a medium, lasting beige head over a clear dark brown (SRM 35) body.....nose is coffee, chocolate, with cereal...taste is coffee, chocolate, slightly sweet finish, with mild bitterness...mouth feel light, carbonation low. This meets the style, but is on the light end of the spectrum in complexity and feel. BJCP 7/3/12/4/6
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Nearly black, creamy head. Chocolate, oats, roast aroma. Flavor is sweet chocolate, light molasses, roast. Creamy and good.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle at Papsø. Pours pitch black with a small off white head. The aroma is roasted malt, coffee, chocolate and caramel. The flavour is liquorice, tobacco, coffee and hard roasted malt.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle at Papsø’s - Thanks. Pitch black - white head. Sweet malty, milkey, vegetables, herbal, light hoppy, high malty, fruity, licorice. Plain.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle at Papsø.
Dark brown coloured with a small beige head.
Roasted aroma of caramel and dark chocolate.
Roasted flavour of caramel and dark chocolate with notes of hops.
Roasted finish.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
12 fl oz bottle. Pours dark brown to black with a small tan head. Aroma is roasted dark malty and breadish. Dark malty, caramelish and slight toasted. Dark caramelish and roasted finish.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottled. Burgundy coloured. Dense light brown head. Aroma of roast, dust, chocolate, cocoa, Flavour of roast, sweetness, chocolate, cocoa and some fruits. Medium bodied. Dry roasty and chocolaty bitterness in the end.
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