Hakim Stout

Brewed by Harar Beer Factory
Style: Foreign Stout
Harar, Ethiopia

Bottled. Clear roast red. Spicy licorice aroma. Sweet and grainy, heavily spicy. Light bodied and roasty with somewhat syrupy mouthfeel and lightly salty finish. An interesting beer, but a stout only by the name.

Dark brown colour. I’m not encouraged by the wet paper smell. Vaguely caramelly malts, thin body, plasticy finish. Where’s the roast at? Not much for a foreign stout either, more like a dark lager.

Deep brown with minimal head. Honey aroma. The honey dominates the flavor as well -- a very sweet beer, with no bitterness.

(Bottle) Pours a dark brown body with a small tan head. Aroma of cocoa, caramel, toasted marshmellow, and vanilla. Flavor of roasted malt, cocoa, and toasted/somewhat burnt marshmellow. A respectable foreign stout.

Pours brown with a thin tan head. Smells of roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, some touches of sweetness. Tastes sweet and chocolatey with a lactic milky finish.

The color was a dark brown but with considerable light passing through. Roasty, toasted oat and wheat nose with a bit of charred malt and smoke. Best described as that common foriegn stout quality. Tasted the same, with a medium-thick body and some really nice crusty, oat and charred malt flavors in the finish. I was impressed with this beer from Ethiopia.

Hazed umber color with a moderate, tan head, Sweet arimas of grain and fruit. Bits of caramel and brown sugar as well. Interesting flavors of brown sugar and caramel. Toasted grain and some floral hops as well. A heavy amber.

Bottle: Amber color, no head or lacing. The nose is very caramelly and diacetyl...y. The flavor is metallic and sweet with plum, no roast nor coffee nor cocoa, some funky hop and rotten fruit blend into a formitable negative barrier. Thin body and mouthfeel with a very untasty finish. Needs more stout and less Worthers original. Easily the most kick ass beer in Ethiopia unfortunately by the looks of things.