3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Not very sweet, but quite a bit of bitterness. Yeasty, both in taste and aroma. Very dark in colour, head is brown. (50 cl bottle)
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle at home shared with DutchDrebus. Pitch black opaque color, brown head. Nice fruity hints in the aroma with caramel and roastyness. Taste malts, a bit sweet and bitter and some coffee. Nice carbo, medium body.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Sample @ Gothenburg Beerfest 2011. 2-9-2011
Au delà du style gimmick pour attirer l’attention, une bonne stout.
Noire, col beige/moka avec un filament doré sur le verre.
Arôme de malt grillé, léger caramel.
En bouche, malt grillé, moka/expresso et café avec une pointe de houblon amer.
Aussi une impression de feuille de tabac donnant une fine note tourbe.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
0.5l bottle. Mr.President pours a dark dark brown body - almost black - with a medium sized creamy and bubbly chocolate head. Aroma is quite different. Earthy, roasty and sweet. Also kinda smoky with some wood, there’s also some chocolate in here with hints of caramel, hops and fruity yeast (ripe melon). Soft carbonation, thick oily mouthfeel and medium-bodied. Tastes quite hoppy, some dark chocolate, and it ends bitter with a watery finish and a roasted aftertaste with lots of smoke! A bit different this stout, but I kinda like it.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draught at Mikkeller Bar, Copenhagen
Black color; creamy beige head. Aroma of burnt coffee (do you know that coffee should be roasted, not burnt like Starbucks and the likes do???), and the dusty Danish yeast. Reasonable body strength, good dark chocolate flavor, roasted malt, limited but pleasant residual sweetness; bold bitterness. Solid and pleasant, without being impressive.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
From a bottle at GBF 2011. Black with medium beige head. Dry rioasted dark chocolate aroma, with some smoke, and resiny hops. Medium bodied, soft carbonation. Fairly dry, medium bitterness.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle from Vinmonopolet in Valkendorfsgate, Bergen. Pours a pitch black body, more black than Obama ever was. This is more like Malcolm X, with a big, creamy near-beige head on top, reminiscent of the white yoke holding the black man down for so many years. Oh well, political imagery aside, nose gives me toasted bread, leather and coffee, with hints of black berries. Taste is a hoppy excursion into stout land: piney, grassy hop tones gives way to coffee, hints of leather and licorice. In the end, hops prevail and ensure a rather bitter and near-fruity grassy finish. Feels almost like a light black-and-tan; which is probably appropriate for the interracial summit of American politics so amply illustrated by the rise of mr. President Obama. A very nice and quite original stout from Xbeeriment.
4.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle from De Molen beer shop. Almost black color with medium frothy beige head. Aroma of dark fruit, coffee, caramel. Taste, roasted malt, coffee, dried plums, milk chocolate. Nice spicy, bitter finish.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle at a Paul’s tasting. Dark pour with tan head. Cocoa, dark roasted malts, some fruit, almost milk stout and has a touch of grass. Has a bit of booze showing through but drinks like a porter.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Black with a light brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, coffee and peated smoke. Flavor is very sweet and rather bitter. Dry and roasted rather bitter finish. 311209
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