Pisgah Valdez

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

POurs dark brown with a light brown head. Spicy nice with quite a bit of cocoa and older coffee character. The flavor is like one of those canned coffee drinks you get at the gas station. Pretty thin and prickly. Dry finish.

Corked and Caged Bottle from BDR I believe, this brewery has great name significance for me as the sleep away camp I went to is quite close to Pisgah Forest. Anyway. Woah, what a damn amazing nose. This beer smelled amazing from when I first popped the cork. Nose is rich and roasty with a lot of coffee. Pour is really pretty nice big black with a huge lacing brown head. Taste is freaking amazing, this is a big killer coffee stout, its so damn good, and rich and smooth and full of coffee. This is a stellar stellar stout!!

Bottle courtesy Durhambeer. Thin black pour with a thin tan head. Huge coffee aroma with hints of cocoa. Nice coffee dominated taste with a good malt balance and hints of chocolate. Great body and drinks very smooth, a real tasty beer wih an awesome aroma.

Bottle shared by Crosling, thanks. Poured a deep brown color with a moderate beige head that slowly diminished to a layer. Aroma of coffee grounds, roasted malt, and some light smoke. Smooth, moderately sweet entry with some light chocolate that is overpowered by coffee beans and roasted malt. Finishes moderately sweet with some light roast. Moderate carbonation, decent mouthfeel. An alright stout, but it didn’t really distance itself from most of the other coffee stouts I have had.

Bottle… This beer rocks!… Pitch black ale with a small, creamy, beige head. Great retention. Rich, chocolaty, coffee with cream aroma. Full-bodied and very silky with soft carbonation. Tastes like a lightly sweetened mocha latte. Burnt, bitter, dry finish.

Bottle. Pours out a dark black color with a thick tan head on it that lasts to the end of the bottle. Awesome pour, havent seen a beer that looked like this in a long time. Smell is sweet, with a little bit of chocolate and a huge amount of coffee. Sort of like Peche Mortel Light. Taste is very smooth and incredibly easy to drink. Thick yet not too thick to session. Dangerously drinkable, I could see myself drinking alot of this and not remember my name. This is up there with the top beers in this category. On par with Kalamazoo.

pours out a black color with a thick tan head. aroma smells like a coffee shop. flavor is very nice. like a large glass of cold coffee. great brew.

Thanks dchmela! Like the black as oil waters of the Alaskan coastline, Valdez pours like something you’d expect to be stuck in seal fur. Like the waters are vacant of marine life, Valdez is vacant of sweetness. Slightly over-roasted and full of coffee, this needs a little more sweetness to balance it out. Dryness and cocoa flavors linger in the mouth long after the medium bodied beer goes down the hatch. Certainly not a bad beer, just slightly too roasted for my tastes.