Big Boss Brewing Company Aces & Ates Coffee Stout

Aces & Ates Coffee Stout

 

Big Boss Brewing Company in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸

  Stout Winter
Score
6.70
ABV: 6.0% IBU: - Ticks: 14
Combines a rich and roasted malt backbone layered with notes of chocolate, espresso, and toffee. We condition the beer on whole coffee beans provided by Larry’s Beans with additional cold brew concentrate to drive huge coffee aroma and flavor to this seasonal favorite.
 

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7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

3 week old can A: Clear dark brown motor oil color with a 2 tan frothy head, very good retention and patchy lace. S: Smooth coffee aroma with caramel, molasses and milk chocolate. T: Bitter, roasty coffee and toasted grains with a hint of chocolate cake sweetness and prune toward the end. M: Fairly light and quite crisply carbonated. Sort of dances on the tongue and begs the next sip. O: Simple and straightforward, this does the coffee thing quite well.

Tried from Can on 06 Nov 2021 at 22:53


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Draft at Crafty. Dark brown color beige head. Aroma of earthy coffee grounds. Taste is earthy chocolate and coffee.

Tried from Draft on 15 Jan 2018 at 20:08


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle at Bruce’s Birthday batch @Craft Islington. Thanks to C-Dogg! It pours deep ruby-brown with a medium beige head. The nose is earthy, musty, coffee, dark chocolate and barnyard. The taste is coffee, toasty, earth, mild acidity, chocolate and light tang with a dry, roasty finish. Medium body and average carbonation. Fairly one-dimensional. OK, but I was hoping for more depth.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Mar 2014 at 13:12


6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

7th February 2014
Craft Islington. Brucie Boys Birthday Bash. Cheers to Mr Bois for this one. Almost opaque dark brown beer, good tan head. Palate is light and airy. Mellow dark malt, light tang and lactose. Touch of dark chocolate. Semi.dry finish. A bit dull but okay.

Tried on 18 Feb 2014 at 01:20


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle I brought along to Bruce’s Birthday Bash @ CBC N1, big thanks initially to Toby Kernel for passing this ’spare’ to me at the brewery, 07/02/14. Mid black with a good sized tan head. Nose is light roast, earthy, touch of cocoa powder, dark fruit pangs. Taste comprises dark toffee fudge, cocoa powder, faint coffee, dark fruit lick. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close. Ok drinkable offering but lacks any depth for the ABV, also not much coming off in the way of coffee, perhaps a little old ?

Tried from Bottle on 14 Feb 2014 at 03:16


4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Brewvival Trip Beer 4. Draft at Mellow Mushroom Asheville.Pours a clear dark brown color with a thin frothy head. Good head retention. Aroma of butterscotch, earth, chocolate, coffee. The taste is coffee, butterscotch, earth. Medium bodied. Diacetyl. Disappointing.

Tried from Draft on 19 Feb 2013 at 19:19


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle thanks to GRG1313. Pours with not quite a black body with a somewhat lasting tan head. Aromas are roasty, bready, nutty, coffee and chalky. Flavors are of fudge, smooth roast, cereal grain, nutty, grainy, coffee, molasses, raisins. Light bubbles, doesn’t feel very substantial in alcohol or body despite the ABV.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Feb 2012 at 15:45


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Near black with a medium beige head. Sweet aroma with hard roasted malt, coffee and dark chocolate. Sweet flavour with roasted malt, dark chocolate, coffee and vanilla. Finished sweet.

Tried on 29 Jan 2010 at 03:16


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

dark brown, small smooth yellow head. faint aroma, faint roasted grains, flavor is coffee, roasted grains, watery, faint licorice.

Tried on 28 Jan 2010 at 12:04


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottled. A pitch black beer with a thin dark brown head. The aroma has strong notes of roasted malt and coffee, as well as some dark chocolate. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of roasted malt, dark chocolate, and some coffee, leading to a dry very roasted coffee finish. Thanks Papsoe for sharing.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Jan 2010 at 11:49