Total Eclipse Breakfast Stout
Maumee Bay Brewing Co. in Toledo, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.19
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Great beer and great balance. Black pour with good head and lacing. Caramel and some chocolate. Some booze. Bottle.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Clear deep maroon color. Aroma has coffee, dark chocolate, licorice. Taste is rich fruity espresso, overbaked brownies. Tasty.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Black with a dark and creamy head. Aroma is sweet malt, roasted, espresso, chocolate, molasses. Full, oil smooth body. Flavor is roasted and coffee, sweet cream, malt, chocolate. Finish is sweet roasted, light roasted bittersweet malt. Full flavored and complex but the different notes end up working together toward a delicious goal.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Pours a dark brown with tan head. The aroma is strong coffee, dark chocolate. Thick with dark chocolate, heavy roast, good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
12 ounce bottle into snifter, no bottle dating. Pours dense pitch black color with a 1 finger dense dark tan head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Slight spotty lacing clings on the glass. Aromas of dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, toast, toffee, raisin, plum, light vanilla, and yeast/roasted earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/roasted malt, coffee, and dark fruit notes; with good strength. Taste of dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, toast, toffee, dark bread, light dark fruit, light vanilla, light char, and roasted earthiness. Fair amount of roasted bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, toast, toffee, dark bread, light char, and roasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Damn nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roasted malt and coffee flavors; with a great roasted bitterness/sweetness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Light-medium carbonation and medium-full bodied; with a very smooth, creamy, and lightly chalky mouthfeel that is great. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is an excellent imperial coffee stout. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roasted malt and coffee flavors; and very smooth to sip on for the ABV. A very enjoyable offering.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Bottle at home, thanks to an IP trade with Michael C, 11/05/13. Pours pitch black with a thin dirty tan head that clears to a film but stays for the show. Nose carries a good coffee ’whack’, brown sugars, light mineral notes, roast malt, toffee fudge. Taste is coffee forward, tiramisu jus, a touch of booze, vanilla, light chocolate notes, roast malt backbone, sugars but not OTT sweet. Full bodied but at the lighter end of the spectrum, carbonation is fine, well pitched keeping the 9% eminently drinkable. Great breakfast stout, I love my coffee beers, this hits all the right notes and the 9% ABV is well disguised.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Sample from growler at the 4th Annual Coldest Day of the Year Stout Tasting on 01/21/2012: The beer pours black with a medium thin beige head that diminishes quickly to an outer ring. Spotty lacing on the glass. Aroma of roasted coffee and malt. Medium body with flavors of roasted coffee, chocolate malt and some hops. The finish is roasty with a malt aftertaste. Decent overall.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
On tap at the vintage estates. Mild dull coffee smell. Taste however is a big blast compared to the smell. Rams you in the head, kicks you in the head with a coffee black blast. Wallop and smack. Smell gives no inkling of the taste that follows. Black burnt coffee laced with alky. Some co2 surprizingly for a stout of this impact. Reminds me of grampa’s black coffee with a couple of shots in it when he was watching gunsmoke. Just plain rude finish for a lager lover. Brutally on coffe imp stout sound style.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours black with dark brown highlights with beige head. Low carbonation and medium body. Taste is roasted malt (mostly coffee). Alcohol is pretty well covered, this is a pretty good beer.