Southern Tier Jah-va

22. Another tour de excess from Southern Tier. Holy wow. Black. Burnt tan swirls for a head. Big prune and soy sauce nose. Thumpingly gooey body...more like a bechamel sauce than a beer. Coffee sour, roast, chocolate, and malt sweetness for days comprise the mid-palate. This is great stuff, but really hard to face fully. 22 ounces of this, like the Choklat, is about 10 servings of this beer.

*did not like could not buy* aroma: odd soapy floral smell. no coffee. i dont know what the heck this is supposed to be.. a joke? app: black brown. flavor: odd! bubble gum . strange. bordering on offensive. palate: fine OA: Odd. coffee?? where? stout? where? just a bad off beer. Why the hype? what gives??

Pours deep black with barely any head. It tastes like a typically good imperial stout...there is coffee, dark chocolate and roastiness but I don’t really discern the added coffee. I had this a couple years back and felt it had a lot more coffee, I think they’ve toned down the Jah-va this winter.

bomber bottle $7.99. Pours a dark dark brown with a thin tan head. Smells of intense coffee, dark chocolate, and hops. Palate is medium, perhaps a tad thinner than, say, Brooklyn’s Black Chocolate. Flavor is a smooth mixture of rich black coffee, chocolate malts, alcohol and roasts. Very well blended and superbly balanced. Finishes with roasted notes , coffee and some bitterness. Really hid the alcohol quite well. Very good beer, if anything it finishes a tad thin for an impy stout, though this improves as the beer warms. Similar in quality and flavor to DdC’s Peche Mortel (but less coffee punch). 4.1

Drank alongside a Moylan’s Ryans Impy stout and preferred the Moylan’s. This one was toned down on the roasted coffee and chocolate flavors (which I prefer in my impy stouts) and turned up on the port wine and sweet sherry flavors (which I like more in my barley wines). Something called a coffee stout should definitely be more coffeeish. Also after the Choklat I had recently was definitely expecting a big coffee presensce. No such luck on this one unfortunately. Don’t get me wrong, it’s in there, just not big and bold.

Pours a nice dark brown, with a solid tan head. Aroma is sweet, chocolatey with a bit of coffee. Flavor is more of the same, good chocolate stout character,but not as much coffee as I was looking for. This is a really good stout, but not the great coffee beer I was hoping for.

After drinking Choklat yesterday, I expected this to be like eating a coffee bean. I am here to report it is not, and I am a little disappointed by that. Smells sweet, but with no strong coffee! Tastes rather sweet. There is some coffee there, but it’s no stronger than a stout brewed with a malt combination to lend coffee to it. It’s still a good stout, but nothing as great as I had hoped.

Not as java-y as I expected after having the Choklat yesterday. The coffee flavor is good though. It is kinda vinous and consequently has an alcoholic quality. Pretty smooth, low carbonation.