Hoppy Total Eclipse Black Ale

Brewed by Hoppy Brewing Company
Style: Stout
Sacramento, California USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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Bottle just in from Lueken Liquors. Is this how the brewer intended it? Maybe something more hoppy. As a dry stout, pretty decent, more of a light shwartzbier, with a muted hop. Very good drinkability. Light black coloured body, almost no head. Medium mouthfeel. Mollasses and light roast smell.

22 ounce bottle poured a black color with aromas of bitter burnt coffee, light pine and some citrus. Flavors are coffee groinds with some livht citrusy hops. Decent stout overall, would drink again.

22oz bottle picked up at Country wine and spirits
Appearance: Clear dark mahogany with a huge frothy tan head and lots of lacing
Aroma: Instant chocolate and roasted malts
Taste: Roasted malts, grainy, chocolate with a bitter finish
Ok

On tap at beerfest. Color is black with brownish head. Taste is roasted malts. With some coffee.

Rich cocoa, roasted coffee and nutty aromas. Appears a blackish brown with a massive tan foam at the top. Strongly carbonated flavors of dark roasted malts including chocolate, molasses, nuts, oats and subtle coffee. Full bodied with moderately complex malts. Overall, pretty well done. The carbonation is a bit overbearing to me though. It kind of takes away from the quality of the flavors. I’d give this a B rating.

Bomber Bottle, this stout had a black-brown pour with some dark ruby color at the bottom of the glass when held to a light, the pour made a one finger or less light tan and tan colored head, this beer was opaque and the only effervescence I saw was at the edges of the glass, it left nice spots, fingers and partial rings of lacing on the glass, there was no sediment in the bottle, this drink had aromas of roasted malt, dry chocolate and caramel, a little coffee in the background, there was a little malt and dark bread sweetness, and very little hops, it had flavors of roasted malt, a little chocolate, and some coffee, very little sweetness, the finish had some malt astringency that gave some bitterness, the mouth feel was light and had a little creaminess to it, a typical stout with what appears to be a little malt astringency on the palate.

Tap. Pours opaque with a bubbly tan head, short retention with light lacing. Aroma is dark fruity esters, chocolate and roast malt, coffee notes and earthy hops. Flavor is malt dominant, medium bitterness, light hops and a dry finish. Medium body and carbonation.

poured black with a tan head. aroma chocolate, malts, caramel, coffee, roasty, flavor same as aroma. this had the wow factor for me. good beer

22oz bottle 7/712 (Binny’s Naperville)-42° in English Pint-Pours black wih ruby tints and a huge tan head. Aroma of coffee, chocolate, and hops. Taste of chocolate, coffee, hops, and roasted malt. This medium bodied brew has a bit of a hop characteristic which adds a nice feature. Nice brew.

UPDATED: JUN 11, 2012 Moderate bitterness, earthy nose and an amazing transformation from a Black IPA to a Dry Stout finish in every gulp. A different slant on a stout recipe. Maybe it’s a West Coast thing?