Pike XXXXX Stout

Brewed by Pike Pub & Brewery
Style: Stout
Seattle, Washington USA

Serve in English pint

Quite decent. A well balanced and flavorful stout. Robust and chocolaty. Possibly overrated. Happy with the 7% abv and i got a bomber for 3.99 so i can’t complain.

1/15/12. 22oz bottle. Opaque black pour with a small brown head that fades fast and laces a little in small rings. Sweet chocolate aroma with touches of char and ash. Slightly sweet chocolate entry that transitions to char, roasted coffee, and lingering dryness with a touch of tartness. Not too shabby.

opaque black with some tan bubbles around the rim. full body with medium-high carbonation, and not creamy or clingy.

aroma: silage, mushroom soy sauce, some roasted malts, and a hint of charcoal.

taste: charcoal, roasted malts, roasted barley, some sourness and herbal hops. very little chocolate or coffee. truly a foreign extra stout or "imperial" dry irish stout.

one of the best dry style stouts i’ve had @ 1200 ratings.

Bottle. Black with a creamy light brown head. Chocolate coffee cereal grain and lightly burnt malt aroma and taste with a dry finish.

Charbon, café, malt rôti, torréfie avec un fini très sec. La charpente est assez mince, rien de terriblement excitant mais la buvabilité est excellente.

Deep, dark, with robust brown head. Aroma is complex, sweet, roasty, yeasty....very nice. Flavor leans towards roasted grain, but very well balanced with sweeter malt with chocolate notes. A really impressive stout, and so far my favorite by American brewers, and maybe my favorite overall. Definitely one to come back to many times.

A very nice deep black stout. Lacking complex flavor and much of an aroma (But how many beers really have great aromas? This isn’t wine.). However, much of its lack of complexity it makes up for as an outstanding pure blue color stout. It’s drinkable, a little bitter, dark black, roasted, with moderate alcohol flavor and content. Simple on the palate, low on the hops. Perfect for cold weather or the pool. The pool might seem weird but it is not too thick, richly flavored, or high alcohol content (ie. can consume copiously) but can enjoy cold and warm (I live in Texas - if you drink outdoors in the summer your beer is cold after 90 seconds).

22 oz bottle from the back of the closet...probably about 18 months old from Belmont Station in Portland. Pours almost black....definite taste of coffee and chocolate...nice balance; not at all bitter but just an edge there...very tasty...well done / wish I had a few more tucked away...