4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
bottle. Pours black with creamy beige brown head. Head is pretty big and sticks around. Aroma of roast, deep rich chocolate tones, with mild spiced milk aspect. Sweet, silky chocolate cream with tones of vanilla and milk on initial attack, with deep roast appearing on the finish. Full bodied but not oily or syrupy, it is smooth, creamy, and velvety, slightly milky. Could not have a better mouth feel. Simply phenomenal stout, was the cheapest one at the store and when I saw it was from sri lanka I have to say i was pretty prejudiced but damn this really is a good one. Cheers.
4.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
A very velvety stout, the smoothest I’ve had so far. Roasty, chocolate, warming alcohol – but not too much. There is a reason a lot of people like this beer. Pours black with nice tan head. Slightly sweet, slightly bitter, full on flavor. Surprisingly light body with average carbonation. A nice reward for a hard days work.
3.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle 0,625ltr: Opaque black with an good roasted malts taste with hints of chocolate, coffee and vanilla, Good surprise from Sri Lanka.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pours pitch black with a thick creamy tan head that shows excellent retention, hanging around as a one-inch head for the duration.
The aroma is heavily roasted malts, coffee and cocoa powder. Almost like chocolate-covered espresso beans.
The taste is excellent for the style - toasted chocolate malts and coffee. There is a bit more sweetness than in the aroma and the finish is dry with bakers chocolate.
The mouthfeel is dry and roasty with a moderate carbonation.
This is an excellent example of an export stout and extremely drinkable for the ABV. Surprisingly good.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle, from the LCBO.
Pours dark brown, forms a rather generous and consistent tan-head. Quite impressive lacing, and rather foamy as well. Coffee and alcohol nose. Rather low carbonation, quite sweet. Not that thick, as far as stout standards applies. But quite bitter. No hops at all for the nose, but they’re quite present in mouth. Finish is cocoa and licorice, and quite long at that. A rich and subtle beer. Expected a much stronger alcohol taste, due to aroma. While it’s certainly a good beer, I expected slightly more character. Interesting brew, for sure, but that one will go in the books as a competent, strong take on the stout.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle with new label ;-P Pitch black colour with fine head. Flavour is overall bitter coffee and sweet chocolate and vanilla.
3.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 10/20
12oz can. Very interesting stout, would love to find some fresh on draft as opposed to out of the can for comparison. Dark black pour with a tan head. Very complex flavors of chocolate, coffee and licorice with an overall bitterness.
3.4 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle at WOB, pours black with tan head. Mild aroma of coffee and chocolate. Med sweet, med bitterness, smooth almost velvety feel associated with the average carbonation level. Finish is a touch bitter, but otherwise clean, surpising that no alcohol makes its way through. Its an okay beer, I think very much overated.
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