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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Very smooth, great taste, smells amazing, and black as night. I would get this stout again! ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Beautiful black pour with dark head. Smells of coffee, chocolate and roasted malt. Odors flow through to the taste with the addition of molasses. A chalkybitterness hits the tip of the tongue and spreads back. Very nice stout.

I love this. 8.8%. Its like an alcoholic Guinness. Try it today. Delicious. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

predominant flavour is of coffee at the start, and along with all the roasted goodness it is delicious. but it gets better as it warms up out of the bottle, when the aroma turns to almost pure molasses, and drinks unbelievably heavy. warms you right up and is the sort of thing to settle down with in a big comfy armchair, which is exactly what i did. brilliant stuff.

Inky black with a sticky tan head that lasts. Texture was full and creamy with a velvety softness. Bold and rich flavors from start to finish (which lingered well into the aftertaste): toffee, sugared espresso, sweet milk, dark chocolate, fresh-roasted coffee beans, and caramel syrup. Grassy hop presence had a bold bitterness to balance things out. Some burntness and robust roastiness added depth. Very tasty ... I loved this stuff.

my kind of stout - like coopers stout ramped up a few notches. fruity and tarry and bitter and thick, with a nice subtle leafy hop background, without the citric alcohol/cohumulone kick in the finish most US stouts go in for. the fruitiness is provided by the yeast not the hops - plums and pears rather than grapefruit and pine. it all hangs together and blends seamlessly in the mouth. lovely stuff, not trying too hard and not that complex but doing the basic stouty flavours really honestly and really really fantastically well. just lacking a really amazing 3D aroma. things are looking good this winter with this and black bear stout readily available round here.

Dark, dark brew, the room grew dimmer when I opened the bottle. Used motor oil colored with a tiny thin light brown head. Wonderful scent of this mornings coffee grounds and unsweetened baking chocolate with a hint of slightly burnt toast and even more subtle traces of toffee. Wow, so many flavors going on at once, where to start? Thick and chewy, great feel, coats the mouth without being cloying. I am digging this beer! Sweet roasted malts in the lead but loads of supporting cast members, prunes, mineral salt, caramel, tannins...just so much going on here. A very well made and complex beer with layer upon layer of goodness!

Bottle, my post house-work/dog-walk, pre-nap Sunday afternoon beer. Pours like any self-respecting stout should ... thick, cascading into a thick, boiling-top of foam. The aroma is mellow, yet promising, and the beer ultimately delivers with a sweet, chocolate-based kick in the pants. The finish is a nice finessed bitterness. I love this style -- grittier, more bodied than the airier stouts trying to imitate Guinness. Like a good steak versus a burger. (#4522, 3/11/2012)

bottle. black with a brown medium, creamy, brown head. i get a sugary dark blackberry note in the aroma over the usual milk chocolate and heavy roasted barley. ashy bitter roasted flavors with lesser notes of crystal malt and baked bread. not too bitter, not too sweet. absolutely no sickening piney hop notes or anything unfitting for a stout. silky palate with no heat from the high abv. full. i’m trying to find the berry note i got in the aroma but i can’t. balanced. clean finish for the style. good attenuation.

What the hell is this!!!! I know Green Flash can get make some seriously badass beers, but this was a complete suprise. I had not idea that this was going to be as good as it was, but I guess I should have known since it was...well...Green Flash.

The beer pours out a deep inky black color with a creamy brown/dark tan frothy head, that looks like it belongs on a frothy cup of cappucino or something similar. The lasting of the head was really spectacular, and just really a highlight. Aroma starts out with a huge blast of roasted malts and dark, decadent chocolate. The vanilla seems to ease it’s way onto the scene without much of a problem and it’s got a damn near perfect balance of being burnt without being ashy.

Lost of sweetness left behind on the palate but it works really well here. Seemingly tempering the bitter chocolate/coffee angle like eating a nice dark chocolate square of 70% cocoa, it carries all the beauty of bitter chocolate but still being easy to enjoy many, many times over. This ones all about the chocolate and how it harmonizes with the roasted malts. Combine that with the beautiful pour and the mesmerizing aroma...and you have a fantastic stout.