Pisgah Valdez

Brewed by Pisgah Brewing Company
Style: Stout
Black Mountain, North Carolina USA

Time to catch up before BCTC. Bottle at CL Rosso release. Thanks to all the RB’ers and BA’s that brought great beer. Chocolate covered esspresso bean aroma. Chocolate roasted coffee bitterness, and then my notes say, "oblgerrhust."

Courtesy of Avalon68 via trade

Bottle: The aroma is loaded with chocolate (dark chocolate and chocolate syrup) along with some light roasted coffee. It pours a dark brown with a moderate beige head with good retention. The flavor starts with a quick dose of dark chocolate and chocolate syrup. The finish has a very nice roasted coffee presence. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. This is what Southern Tier Mocha should have been.

22oz. Pour is inky black with a fluffy brown head. Aromas full of coffee, roasted malts, and vanilla. Flavor is a straight up coffee bomb! Really drinkable and nice.

Thanks to Jonas for sharing black pour with coffee ground flavor and flavors of coffee and chocolate, this was an interesting brew

Bottle shared by ShareANevada. Poured black color with an average brown frothy head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate roasted malt,chocolate and small alcohol aroma. Medium to full body with a smooth texture and flat carbonation. Medium to heavy sweet roasted coffee flavor with a medium to heavy bittersweet finish of moderate to long duration. Good complex stout.

Very nice coffee smell on the nose. On the palate I get coffee, small chocolate but mostly coffee. I feel as though it is medium bodied, but most would argue more full bodied. Nice beer definitely recommended.

22 oz. bottle. Purs out black with a big creamy brown head. Huge coffee aroma, like walking into Starbucks. There’s also some bitter chocolate, and maybe some dark fruits. Full body, some astringency, and a fairly dry palate. Coffee flavor dominates to the point of being overwhelming, some underlying dark malty sweetness takes the edge off. This would be lot better if the coffee weren’t quite so assertive.

bomber from stfun... pours barely transparent woody dark blackish brown with a huge cafe au lait colored head. it smells of well toasted coffee beans, malt, caramel and lots of nuts. the same crafted coffee is in the flavor... and lots of it! it is not bitter, harsh or sour... i’d really like to try the coffee on its own... anyway, the beer has other flavors of dark dried fruit/prunes, heavy roast, grass and buttery caramel covered toasted walnuts with a touch of acidity on the finish. it is fairly full bodied though it is ’oddly’ carbonated...it is very high, soft and sudsy. it builds and fills my mouth like that spray in insulation. this detracts from what is an otherwise solid brew. 8/4/8/2/14/3.6