1.1 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 1/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 2/20
UPDATED: JUN 13, 2008 I found this to be unpleasant and barely drinkable. It’s black with a huge light brown head that slowly shrinks to a thin ring. The aroma is wine, prunes, steak sauce, and a hint of onion. The taste is sweet, winey steak sauce and prunes, with vinegar. It is tart, a little sour. In the end there is some dark toast quality. It is oily in feel but thin and watery in body, which may seem odd.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
12oz bottle pours near black with mocha head. The aroma is coffee beans, roasted malts and mild notes of burnt malts and oxidation. The taste is very much the same as the aroma with highly roasted malts mingling with coffee and with a faint note of oxidation. The coffee fades some to midway allowing more roasty malts to shine through. Coffee and burnt malts linger into the after taste. The flavors here don’t seem to play well together. It didn’t really work for me.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Pours a deep dark brown with a bit of a head. Aroma was as it should have been, coffee, coffee, and more coffee. Taste was coffee, coffee, and more coffee. Oh and some roasted coffee. Just a bit too thin on the palate for such a coffee oriented beer.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
12oz. brown bottle served in a shaker pint. Appeared to be bottle conditioned. Poured a deep brown/black with a quickly dissipating tan head. Roasted barley and coffee in the aroma. Some sweetness lots of coffee and chocolate in the flavor. A little thin on the body. Some hop bitterness in the middle. Long dry finish with more coffee and chocolate. Fairly easy drinking.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle into English pint glass. Pours an opaque deep, deep brown-black with the slightest hints of a dark cherry red. The head is a milk chocolate color and dissipates quickly. Aroma is roasty, malty chocolate; no coffee to be found. Odd. Flavor continues to be coffee-free, or else it’s a coffee that is so remarkably uncoffee-like that I actually didn’t recognize it. This is very sweet, offers some useful roastiness and choco undertones, but is overall somewhat watery and bland. Bland for the style, I should say, but still fairly drinkable. Not what the description suggested, but I probably preferred this beer to that described one, anyway.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Pours black with a fine, tan head. Aroma is of stale coffee and chocolate. Flavor is stale coffee and a light-for-style mouthfeel. eh.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
From a 12 oz bottle from a 7.99 six pack, this poured a deep brown that was nearly black, foamy tan head, and light lacing. Coffee nose with some chocolate. Lively mouthfeel. Flavor of dark roasted maltss and coffee. Not much of a finish;
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle. Pours dark brown/black with a substantial and frothy light brown head. Chocolate aroma. Flavor the familiar stout chocolate/ coffee tandem with some minerals, but with some bitter acidity like you’d get from overheated coffee. Seems to water out on the finish. Wanting more fullness here, as well as cleaner flavors.
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