4.4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle @ home from trade with Leighton. Pitch black color, full light brown head that leaves good lacing. Smell is a fantastic mix of roasted malts, hops and a hint of sweetish vanilla. Taste is a fantastic balance between roasted malts, hops, lightly wood and bitter with bitter dark chocolate in the finish. Medium but perfectly suitable carbonation and a medium to full body.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
355 ml bottle bought @ Bierzwerg.de. Pours very dark brown, close to black, with a rather small frothy mocha head that slowly dissipates while leaving some lacing and trace on the glass. Smell is sweet with roasted malts, vanilla, coffee, milk chocolate, hints of resinous wood and fudge. Taste is slightly sweet and quite bitter with heavily roasted (almost burnt) malts, quality coffee, wood, smoke, resin, pine, bitter chocolate and hints of vanilla. Finish is dry and very bitter with coffee and oily pine.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Aroma of floral hops and strong coffee malts with subtle leafy, earthy notes. Extremely black color with a big brownish foam top. Flavors are mostly coffee, black liquorice, chocolate with a pleasant hoppy bitterness. Overall, not a big fan of Stout’s but this is a pretty solid one. I’d give this a B- rating.
4.2 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
aroma is chocolate with a citrus hop, nice black color with decent lacing, taste is chocolate with a pine, citrus hops and a little heat fome the alcohol, really sticks to your palate, great beer
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Cask. Pours black with an average, creamy tan head; good retention and lacing. Aroma is rich roasted malt, coffee, dark fruit, and chocolate. Flavor is heavy malt, average earthy hops, and dark fruit esters; dry finish. Full body, low carbonation, and medium warmth.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Pours a very dark brown, almost black, colour with a decent tan head. Lovely aroma of piney, fruity hops, caramel and coffee. Upfront pine hop flavour with a long roasted malt backbone. Finishes with coffee and bitter hops. Great balance between the bitter hops and the roasty malts. Well carbonated with a slight CO2 prickle on the roof of the mouth.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
It’s very powerful and has strong malt flavors upfront with a hoppy and powerful ending with a bitter aftertaste. You can get tired of this quickly, not my favorite.
5 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 20/20
Other than an ice-cold Miller Genuine Draft, this is probably the best of the best. The flavors meld together nicely to form what can only be described as an orgy in your mouth. Plus, it gets you pretty hammered. What’s not to like about that, hombres?
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