4.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20This is by far the best "coffee" beer I’ve had. Recently got it on tap as a fresh pour. Truly amazing. Kudos to Left Hand for giving the little guy a chance to get a great beer out to the world.
Coffee flavor is great, good bold dark feel and taste, aroma is understated but nice, would have liked for it to have smelled of a cup of espresso.
Oh - served in a brandy snifter, slightly acidic and poor as poured (ice cold). Held to be warm (slightly under room temp, guess at 50 to 65 deg) and became a vision to behold.
As always, knowing how to serve the beer, makes the beer.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Tap. Dark pour with tan head. Smells of chocolate and slight coffee. Tastes sweet at first with slight bitter finish. Very good.
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3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Tap at Rackhouse - dark brown pour - looks like cola - fizzy body, but zero head - nose is coffee heavy, but with a lot of sweetness surrounding it - smells of cream, sugar, I swear I even smell brown sugar and maple - fizzy in the mouth - some nice coffee notes, but the overall flavor is very sweet and sugary - kind of tastes like Cuban coffee - try that stuff sometime - they give you a tiny cup and black coffee that must have about 100 teaspoons of sugar in it - when done right, it can be tasty - this beer doesn’t taste like one done right - far too sweet, so the rich flavor of the coffee is swallowed up - meh.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Dark black pour with large fluffy tan head. Aroma of coffee, chocolate and cocoa. Taste of huge coffee, chocolate, caramel. Higher carbonation giving it a crisp mouthfeel although creamy and slightly sweet, very good stout.
4.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
Deep black with a thin khaki head. Roasty nose of toasted chocolate malts, a touch of caramel and toast. Sweet and creamy flavor with chocolate, truffle creme, and a gentle cafe-con-leche tone. Delightful, if a bit simplistic.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Botella. Black colour. Aroma: sweet, roasty malt, chocolate. Good mouthfeel. Sweet roasty maltiness with chocolate in the flavour. Soft. Pleasant.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
pitch dark, creamy light brown head.
aroma is coffee, roasted malts, quite full bodied. flavor is coffee, chocolate, roasted malts, lacto.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottled. A pitch black beer with a dark brown head. The aroma has notes of chocolate, malt, hops, and straw. The flavor is sweet with notes of chocolate, coffee, lactose, and roasted malt, leading to a dry finish.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
12 fl oz bottle. Pours hazy dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is dark coffee, chocolate and roasted malt. Dense coffee, herbal and toffee. Bitter, dark roasted and herbal into a dry and solid bitter finish. Ends bitter and bone dry.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle 35,5 cl. Courtesy of Pinball. Pours a cloudy opaque black with a light brown head. Thick, thick ashy coffee roast. Medium body, some sweet vanilla roast with a subtle bitterness. Quite some coffee but in a kinda balanced way. 140113
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Draft at Pony last night with James and Paul. Pour is black, head was light-colored for a coffee beer and pretty small. Smells great, good fresh coffee aroma. Impressed by the taste as well but it was a little too subtle for me to give it more than a seven here. It wasn’t extremely memorable to me but I did enjoy it.
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