Hakim Stout

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

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

Bottle 330ml.

Clear medium to dark red amber color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, sweet malt, brown sugar, light roasted. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20110129]

Bottled. A hazy deep red beer with a tan head - stout? not from the looks of it. The aroma has notes of dusty hops, malt, and stored fruits. The flavor has notes of chocolate and dust. The body is light. All in all it is boring.

Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of fonefan. Pours an almost clear amber with a creamy off-white head. Sweet roast and nuts in the nose. Medium body, sweet burned caramel and a little roast. Very subdued bitterness - and very little Stout character. Drinkable though. 290111

33 cL bottle. Pours hazy brown with a small off-white head. Aroma is roasted malty to breadish. Breadish, metallic and roasted malty. Dark roasted malty and slight breadish finish.

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.

Bottled (from bierzwerg.de). Deep reddish amber colour with a mediumsized slightly off-white foamy head. Aroma is bready, sweet maltyness as well as some mild dark dry fruits, and mild alcoholic stinging notes. Flavour is being rather similar along with toffee and some sweetish grainy notes. Quite much too sweet, which makes it quite out of balance.

Bottle at Dahlbrg, Helsingborg. Clear orange red coloured with a small beige head. Sweet and fruity aroma of caramel and cocoa powder with notes of cardboard. Fruity and light roasted flavour of caramel and liquorice with notes of cardboard. Light roasted finish.

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.