Flying Fish Exit 13

Brewed by Flying Fish Brewing Company
Style: Foreign Stout
Cherry Hill, New Jersey USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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Tasted on 4/26/12 from a capped 750mL bottle obtained in a trade. Pours completely black with a cascading and slow forming average brown head that slowly recedes to a thin layer of lace. The nose is full of roasted malt and dark chocolate, with just a touch of orange oil, molasses, cocoa nibs, vanilla, milk chocolate, and coffee. The flavor is lightly sweet cocoa nibs, molasses, vanilla, and milk chocolate up front, moving to dark chocolate and mocha with a hint of orange oil and light bitterness. The body is full with light but somewhat stinging carbonation and a long vanilla, milk chocolate, and lightly bitter mocha finish.

Bottle. Dark pour with tan head. Dry finish stout with light toasted tones, hints of chocolate. Aroma is dry malt, hints of cocoa, roasted malt and light toasted tones. Flavor follows.

Appearance: oil and pitch under an espresso crema head, tight and creamy, which eventually fades into a thin layer with a slightly thicker border. Swirls thick along the edges.
Nose: chocolate covered dark fruits. Melted European chocolates. Black root followed by char, tar and smoke mingling together effortlessly. Chocolate covered dried cherries. Chocolate covered almonds. Dark fruit tartness along the edges. Dense delicious fudge.
Palate: smooth and silky mouthfeel, gliding across my tongue with a slow persistent building bitter burnt nutty finish. Dark fruits dominate the middle. Hints of red wine and leathery tannins skirt the edges. Chocolate truffle powder in the back followed by a brief hit of peat and smoke. Burnt caramel and espresso crema. Fresh coffee notes fade as the beer warms up, slipping into the background. Grows ever smoother and silkier with each quaff until there is no more. Chocolate is the glue which holds everything together in sublime seduction.
Final Thoughts: yum! Liquid dessert or breakfast. Chocolate and coffee are good anytime of the day as is beer such as the Chocolate Stout from Flying Fish. Thanks to Total Wine for offering Fish’s beers here in the sunshine state via a brewery direct connection.

From Beerlicious iphone app: Dark Chocolate and mild coffee aroma. Black and hazy appearance with a frothy brown head. Starts out with a nice medium bitterness taste and manages to finish heavier. Medium body with a creamy texture. Average carbonation with an alcoholic finish.

Capped, 750ml bottle. Dark black, Italian roast coffee color. Dark brown head. Aroma of heavy roast, burnt grains, sweet florals, charred sugar, dark cocao chocolate, light licorice, sweet vanilla beans. Deep char flavor, dark roasted coffee flavor, burnt sugar sweetness. Lingering bitterness resembles coffee bitterness, along with a good amount of dark chocolate and cocoa job character. Hearty character, nice stout, well done follow through with the chocolate notes. Overall, it is more like a stronger Foreign Stout with chocolate than a Sweet Stout made strong. I wish this one was easier to get cause it drinks real good.

Bottle. Rich looking dark brown, medium light brown head. The aroma is very chocolatey, with hints of coffee roast and cream. Milk chocolate, burnt malt or light smoke (not sure which), roasted marshmallows, hints of fruit, or maybe just an acidity that pulls my thoughts that direction. Unexpectedly delicious!

Flying Fish’s Exit 13 has a sweet, roasted aroma with a hint of alcohol in the nose. It’s black in color with a medium-brown head, but thin with a very light body. It’s light on the palate with light chocolate and roasted malts - overall, a very smooth beer. There’s a hint of light vanilla in the finish that helps smooth out the bitterness of the roasted malts even more. Robust in the nose, tame in the mouth, and smooth from start to finish. Excellent example of the style.

750 mL bottle from Ye Old Spirit Shop, Frederick, MD. Pours a nearly black color with a thin brown head. Decent head retention. Aroma of chocolate, cocoa, roasted malts, vanilla. The taste is bitter roasted malts, smoke, chocolate, cocoa, a SweetTart kind of taste, faint vanilla. Bitter hop finish. Medium bodied.

Name: Exit 13 Chocolate Stout
Date: April 07, 2011
Mode: Bottle
Source: Total Wine, Vegas
Appearance: black, fine tan head, drippy streaks of lace
Aroma: rich chocolate aroma, light sweetness brings out a milky chocolate character balanced by a hint of dark choclate
Body: creamy body
Flavor: rich chocolate flavor, sweet milk character, touch of bitter dark chocolate
Overall: it’s all about the chocolate
Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.7/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: *** /4

Pour is jet black and oily with a small less than a finger thick head. Nose is of of burnt malt and coffee dominantly. Taste is very much like the nose, along with the a strong taste of a nice coffee flavor, though no chocolate presence as well, I guess they saved that for their chocolate stout.