Samuel Adams Black & Brew

Brewed by Boston Beer Company
Style: Stout
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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Bottle. Black with a good sized light brown head. Aroma of coffee, caramel, burnt malt. Taste is pretty mild, mostly coffee, leading to a very lightly dry, roasted finish. Light bodied, soft carbonation.

bottle - Pours very dark brown and smells of the expected coffee and dark roast malt. The flavor is roasty and well balanced with a good, solid body and nice coffee character. Overall it’s a pretty good coffee stout though not a remarkable one.

Poured into a glass stein. Black with a finger of tan head. Looks nice. Smells like coffee, nutty and malty. Sweet tasting, burnt malt at the beginning with bitter coffee beans at the end. The flavors hit "one, two, three" without any blending or balance. Moderate to high carbonation, too much for me. Light body for a stout. An okay drink. It has a robust coffee profile, but it was not balanced with the rest of the stout. Smelled and looked great though.

Pitch black pour with nice thick beige head that hangs around. Strong coffee aroma and a little cream too. Bitter coffee flavor with ok mouthfeel. Not much else going on. Not bad but nothing special.

Delicious combination of coffee and beer, and not that disgusting convenience store blend coffee. Definitely a good one from the winter collection. Almost wanted to have this with breakfast instead of an actual coffee

Brief write up. This is a very solid attempt at a coffee stout by BBC, the coffee profile isn’t amazing, but the rest of the stout (aside from its lackluster feel) is pretty damn good, with a nice malty backbone and hints of dark fruit. I’d love to see this stuff in six-packs.

One of the best Sam Adams brews I’ve had, and I think Sam Adams consistently turns out quality beer. The taste is strong but smooth. Hops hit you at the front, and then this stuff finishes with all kinds of amazing tones. There’s coffee, of course, and a rich, smokey stout malt ... but then there’s cream, caramel, chocolate, and black cherry at the finish. I enjoyed this.

Bottle from Wal Mart: Poured a deep dark shade of brown that could have easily been confused as black while a thick monstrous layer of stubborn foam graced the top. The aroma is all malts and boasts a strong resemblance to rich regular black coffee even though it does smell like coffee you could buy at McDonalds or 7-11. The drink is roasty with a heavy blend of blackened malt that suggests coffee like flavors. Even though this does hold a nice rich blend of roast coffee like malts, it is apparent that there is an addition of coffee creamer flavor as well such as half and half or cheap Irish creamer capsules. Everyone else can hate on this or me for giving this such a high rating but I’m sorry, I can only think of 2 other beers that pulled off such a strong resemblance to coffee that I feel this ranks as # 3 in the category of best damn coffee beers.

12 oz bottle. Pours black with a large tan head. It has the aroma of coffee and dark chocolate. This beer is wonderful. It tastes like a mix of dark chocolate, sweet coffee with cream and has a nice slightly bitter aftertaste. I would definitely buy this one again.

authentic coffee flavor and body like it already has the cream and sugar in it. cocoa coffee aroma the flavor is more like a burnt coffee rather than showing cocoa. the palate is layered smooth mellow alcohol, and a bit buttery and warm then some bitter coffee harshness that fades. busy, authentic and satisfying.