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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Bottle from South Bay Drugs. Creates a large fluffy topping of head that’s sand colored and the beer itself is a pitch black abyss not able for any light to penetrate through. Aroma has its fair share chocolate and roasted black malts that smell appetizing. A creamy yet oily texture greets the palate while a rich roast malt flavor is up front and notes of coffee and chocolate back it up nicely.

Pours black into a snifter. Mocha head with excellent retention leaves sheet lacing as it slowly recedes. Dark caramel, chocolate and espresso aromas. Creamy with a slightly sour coffee through the middle and a lasting bitter chocolate finish.

UPDATED: JAN 30, 2011 Bomber. Thick and very dark. Good roasted earthy aromas wafting up to my nose. The flavor is big and full but not over the top, it’s actually very easy to drink. I’m surprised it’s called an 8.8% beer as it’s very smooth. I think I have enjoyed every beer I have sampled from Green Flash and this is no exception. Updated 1/30/11: from 4.1 to 4.3, just better on palate and overall experience from original rating.

Bottle courtesy Ibrew2or3. Pours black with a one finger tan head that leaves good lacing. Aroma of roasted malt, coffee, chocolate, and earthy hops. Taste is the same as aroma but less prominent. Medium mouthfeel with a moderate amount of bitterness and smooth alcohol. Very good.

Bottle… Thinkin’ ‘Bout Thirteen Hours O’ Drinkin’ (tew man wrecking crew)… Eases its way into the glass and then sits menacingly black with a mid-sized, creamy, well-tanned head. Good retention. The nose is of dark roast coffee and cocoa… two of life’s greater things. Medium to full-bodied with a 2%-milk mouthfeel and active carbonation. Burnt, bitter charcoal and unsweetened dark chocolate with a faded suggestion of smoke. The finish is all coffee grounds and dried, bitter cocoa.

22 oz bottle. Pours almost black with a red/brown head. Aroma is nice but rather light, with smoke and roast, as well as hints of fruit. Full body. Roasted malt flavor with a bit of smoke and earth and sweeter hints of fruit. Very nice.

Bomber bottle and served in my Stone IRS snifter: Nearly pitch black with a nice creamy tan head and spotty lace. The aroma has notes of molasses, fig, prune, charred and chocolate malt, grassy and herbal hops, some coffee roast, and a hint of mineral water. NICE!

The taste starts malt forward and supported by some dark fruit before a dash of piney and grassy hop bitterness rolls out. Chocolate, oats and ashy burnt malt rounds out the flavor profile. The mouth feel is quite creamy and soft with a slight bite around the edges. I found this to be a very solid stout all told and almost Imperial is nature.

Worthy of a try for sure, cross between traditional smooth English and new world aggressiveness. Big but not too big if you know what I mean...

Bomber from Bev4Less. Very dark in color. Strong aroma off coffee and chocolate. Good roasted maltiness. A little sweetness. Bitter roasted coffee up front. Some alcohol. Roasted malty flavors. Pretty full flavored stout.

Bomber. Pours dark black with a light brown foamy head. Aroma is nice milk chocolate, sweet with low levels of roastiness, no hop presence that I can detect. Smooth. Taste is very smooth, rich, creamy with a clean chocolate flavor. While this is a nice beer it suffers from an identity issue. It is not quite bold and strong enought to be a good Imperial Stout yet it is a little over the top and highly priced for an American Stout. Still good though just a strange beer.

A sour molasses aroma with hints of chocolate. Just a tad thin looking I don’t know I guess I would describe it as a weak brown look. Sour flavor that is not really what I expected. A good finishing bitter. Medium bodied with decent carbonation. Good stout not great but good.