Flat Earth Cygnus X-1

Brewed by Flat Earth Brewing Company
Style: Porter
St. Paul, Minnesota USA

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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Bottled - tasted blind. A red-brown beer with a lazing brown head. The aroma is sweet and very malty combined with notes of roasted malt and chocolate as well as lighter notes of coffee. The flavor is sweet malty with strong notes of chocolate as well as medium notes of coffee, leading to a dry roasted finish which also has a hint of acidity from the roasted malt.

(Bottle 65 cl) Courtesy of Skyview. Ever so slightly hazy reddish brown with a tall and dense shaving foam style head. Roasted malt aroma with a little fruit and burned malt. Medium body with sweetish roasted malt and fruit combined also with yeast and a burned, lightly ashy edge. Dry and lightly malt bitter finish with some alcohol showing. 260708

From bottle #2 at sk8vikings American blind tasting. Pours dark brown with a small level of yeast sediments and a huge, lasting and light tan head. Spiced and roasted malt aroma. Flavour is malty and spiced. Dry. Roasted and spiced finish. Lingering malty and more of the same smoothness into the finish. Nice how the spiced flavour diminishes compared to the malt base flavour.

Draught at GABF 2008. Hazy brown coloured with a medium sized beige head. Roasted aroma of oat and cofee. Roasted flavour of coffee, chocolate, oat and hops. Roasted finish.

Date: May 24, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Ticker Tasting
Appearance: dark brown, fine grey head
Aroma: dry chocolate aroma
Flavor: big tart and bitter flavor, touch of roasted, dark chocolate
Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 3/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 5/20
Rating: 1.9/5.0
Drinkability: 2/10
Score: 4

Unclear brown with huge beige head. Sweet aroma with roasted malt, caramel and mild coffee notes. Sweet flavor with roasted malt, caramel and ripe fruits. Ends sweet with warming alcohol.

Medium brown. Lots of toast and cocoa. There’s a hint of sweetness but it’s syrupy. Some cocoa and nut but nothing particularly inventive.

Bottle. Pours a dark reddish brown color with a longlasting off-white head. Has a spicy malty aroma with some roasted hints and hints of chocolate. Sweetish roasted malty spicy chocolate and licorice flavor. Has a long roasted malty spicy finish with hints of chocolate in the aftertaste.

(22oz bottle, thanks kmweaver) Small beige head with clear mahogany body. Aroma is moderately sweet, chocolate, caramel, some roast, light smoke. Taste is medium sweet, milk chocolate, some smoke, roast. Smooth medium body.

From the Jug at the GABF Colorado Convention Center, Denver 11/10/2008 Fruit aroma. Mid brown coloured with some alcohol present. Crisp and dry lasting roast finish.