Green Flash Double Stout

Brewed by Green Flash Brewing Co.
Style: Foreign Stout
San Diego, California USA

Serve in English pint, Snifter, Tulip

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A bottle I got at Antenna America I think or possibly from Rakuten. It poured a gorgeous inky black with a thick brown head. The aroma is one of rich chocolate, sweet with some mild toffee notes. The mouthfeel is nice and thick, very silky smooth and it has a flavor of chocolate, followed by roast coffee before ending with a lingering sweetness. The wonderful coffee flavor &b roastiness went really well with a Japanese curry. An above average stout at a decent price, well worth trying out!

My Bottom Line:
Caramelized raisins, aniseed angles and delicate dark chocolate merge in this cake-like Imperial Stout.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A sheet of foam sticks to the top of the blackness.
-Carbonation is smooth enough to let all the malts shine.
-This is a sweet rendition, but it never gets sickly.
-Malts also offer roasted bread crumb allusions.
-Alcohol is not a major factor in the flavor profile.

Bottle.

355ml bottle. Black colour with huge, creamy, fully lasting, moderately lacing, tan head. Dark malty aroma has notes of dark chocolate, a dry touch of fruit parings. Taste is initially chocolately dark malty, fruity notes of dark berries, later with dry hoppy overtones; dry, minimally roasty finish, smooth palate.

Poured from a bottle into a glass. Black pour with a mocha brown head that is thick with lacing. Aroma dominated by dark roast malt and chocolate. Taste is a great balance of dark malts, mild coffee and dark chocolate with a bitter finish. Smooth mouth feel with mild carbonation. Thick body. Great.

thick coffee mocha head with lacing. coffee coloured. complex aroma of roasted malts, wood, liquorice and butter toffee. very pronounced liquorice taste, slight sweet, oak, vanilla. long aftertaste of liquorice and roasted malts and some alcohol sweetness. slick oily mouthfeel, medium carbonation and body. bottle 35.5 cl

Uma grande representante do estilo Stout bem ao gosto da escola americana, mais complexa do que as stouts britânicas.

Bouteille 22oz. De couleur brune-noire et opaque. Nez de malt très rôti et légèrement terreux, léger de chocolat noir, de café et de réglisse noire avec des notes de houblon herbeux et de fumée (tourbe). Moyennement ronde en bouche avec un pétillement moyen ainsi qu’une texture moyennement crémeuse. Moyen goût de réglisse noire avec un moyen goût de chocolat noir et quelques traces fruitées (figues) lors de l’entrée en bouche auquel se rajoute un goût de malt assez rôti et aux petites notes terreuses avec un léger goût de mélasse amère et quelques traces de fumée (tourbe) puis en finale l’on retrouve une moyenne amertume de houblon herbeux avec un léger goût de café. Post-goût long, moyennement amer de rôti, moyen de houblon herbeux. léger de chocolat noir avec des notes de café.

Bottle: Color: Deep brown, black. Pillow cream head. Aroma: Malt, chocolate hint . Flavor: Sour, mildly malt/chocolate/roasted flavor. I understand the bold flavor profile, however did not get much complexity.

On tap at Sweetwater. Dark brown pour with a mocha head. Alluring roasted malt aromas. Good body, really good mouthfeel. Impressive foreign stout, cuz I usually dislike this style. Creamy and desert like with decadent chocolate, caramels, fudge, mocha, and velvety roasted malts. Very well done.

Botella en el Kitsch (Gasteiz). Negra como el carbón, espuma, no muy abundante y color marrón oscuro. En nariz es un auténtico espectáculo...café, regaliz, toffe, maltas tostadas...en boca se confirma todo ello. No se nota demasiado el alcohol. Para mi gusto un pelín aguada, sin tanto cuerpo como otras scouts que he probado pero sin duda, un cervezón.