Americano Stout
Stone Brewing in Escondido, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.62
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The coffee notes in Stone Americano Stout are bold, rich and full of American swagger. For each 120-barrel batch, we incorporated over 250 lbs. of artisanal espresso-roast beans into the mash and added in Columbus, Chinook, Amarillo and Cascade hops to invigorate the coffee taste with a slight citrus and resin hop presence. When it came time to selecting our coffee, we chose the same local roasters who contributed to our sought-after 2013 Stone ESPRESSO Imperial Russian Stout. Their fantastic beans helped us achieve this dark, hoppy and wonderfully aromatic espresso stout.
In 2013, as part of our “Odd Beers for Odd Years” program, we brewed our 2013 Stone ESPRESSO Imperial Russian Stout. We loved this beer so much that we wanted another way to brew something similar to it. This beer is first in a series of higher ABV seasonals that we will be brewing in 2016. We used Stone ESPRESSO IRS as an inspiration but took it in a slightly different direction. Ultimately, I was inspired by craft brewed stouts of the late 1980s and early ‘90s. To me, that meant using 100 percent American hops and American specialty malts. This a stout similar to one I would have brewed when I was first starting out as a brewer, so it was fun to take sort of a “throwback” approach. Espresso of course adds a wonderful complement to the coffee and cocoa flavors that are coming from the malts.
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tnkw01 (4059) reviewed Americano Stout from Stone Brewing 10 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Dark brown, almost black. Giant, tan head. Aroma is overwhelmingly coffe with some notes of burnt toast and burnt grass. The taste is really way too bitter for me. I guess with all the hops and coffee I should have expected that. It wasn’t really all that bad just a tad too bitter.
eurosoba (18570) ticked Americano Stout from Stone Brewing 2 years ago
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Svesse (15730) reviewed Americano Stout from Stone Brewing 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
(Bottle) Dark brown colour, almost black, with creamy beige head. Malty, roasted nose with fresh coffee, dark chocolate, espresso and black rye bread. Malty, roasted taste with notes of fresh coffee, cacao, chocolate truffles, black rye bread and a generous coffee bitterness in the finish. Almost full body, with a touch of sweetness. Tasty and well balanced with rich coffee flavours. Very nice.
Foffern (3540) reviewed Americano Stout from Stone Brewing 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Pours a dark brown to black colour with a beige head. Aroma of coffee, chocolate truffles, leather, soy sauce and some cinnamon. The flavour is more roasted with ash, coffee beans, dark chocolate and leather. Has a slick and silky mouth feel, medium body and a medium level bitterness. Lots of coffee and roasted malt in this. Tasteful!
Klimaet (3573) reviewed Americano Stout from Stone Brewing 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Pours subtle see-through like black with a small brown head. Aromas of coffee, chocolate, roast, fudge, vanilla. Taste is roasty, coffee, fudge, caramel, vanilla, chocolate, toffee-like sweet finish.
rhoihessegold (9407) reviewed Americano Stout from Stone Brewing 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
10-04-19 // on tap at Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens - Berlin Depp black, brown head. Coffe dominant in nose and taste. Black roasted malts. Smooth and dry. Roast bitterness. Lovely.
one51 (2463) reviewed Americano Stout from Stone Brewing 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
0.33 bottle. Dark brown, coffee aroma, taste is pretty hoppy for a coffee stout but that's to be expected from Stone. Yeah pretty two-dimensional with coffee and hops... a bit roasty toasty. Not bad but I couldn't drink a whole bottle.
Ritzbertator (4719) reviewed Americano Stout from Stone Brewing 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Dark red brown. Aroma is amarena, cherry, pecanut, a little chalk. Taste is chocolatey, cocoa. Taste is rather tart, sweet chocolate, some cocoa, some nutpeel. Drinkable. Not bad.
jhaase (14816) reviewed Americano Stout from Stone Brewing 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle. Dark brown, creamy brown lace. Very perfumed hop on dry roast, coffee. Medium light body, dry, coffee/roast, metal, coffee retronasal. Perfumed aftertaste.
Marduk (26467) ticked Americano Stout from Stone Brewing 7 years ago