Koff Velvet

Formerly brewed at Sinebrychoff (Carlsberg)
Style: Schwarzbier
Kerava, Finland

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

RBESG 2005, Brown body with a beige head. Malty, grainy aroma with a caramel sweetness. Roasted malty flavor with a light chocolate sweetness and a short dry finish.

Bottle. Very dark brown (almost black), with huge foamy, lacy brown head. Roasted aroma of caramel and perhaps some dark chocolate. Silky smooth, palate a bit sticky. Roasted coffee and malt sweetness in flavor, as well as some hoppy bitterness, and a roasted, slightly bitter dark chocolate finish. Delicious, stout-like beer.

A red-brown beer with a disappearing light brown head. The aroma is sweet malty with notes of caramel, while the flavor is sweet malty with notes of straw and a dry end.

Bottle. Black colour with a baige head. Sweet malty coffee aroma and taste. Medium body and a sweet finish.

(on bottle at RBESG 2005) Rotten masharoma, sweet and moldy. Waterish mouthfeel and a slightly burnt finish. Not really a beer that takes you anywhere.

Very dark, almost black with a fine head. It smells nice and malty. I taste a bit of coffee. But flavor is way too hoppy and bitter for my taste. Disappointment.

Bottled. Black opaque, huge brown creamy/foamy longlasting head. Lacing. Aroma of paperfactory... also some roasted malt as well as old coffee aroma is present. Weak roasted malt in flavour, as well as some sweetish hints. A bit stoutlike as for the roastiness. Sticky palate, and roasted, semibitterish aftertaste.

UPDATED: JUN 14, 2005 (Bottle 50 cl) Very dark, almost black with a creamy and quite stable light brown head. Very dry with pronounced notes of the roasted malts, but not really bitter. Top fermented and closer to a dry Irish stout than an ale. A bit like Guinness in Finnish. 160405