Americano Stout
(has 1 batch)
Stone Brewing in Escondido, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.62
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A decidedly American imperial stout with espresso
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.
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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8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Botella. @Cimmeria, Oviedo 12/05/2016 Color negro, espuma beige, sabor chocolate, café, cuerpo medio, rica.
Tried
on 13 May 2016
at 18:21
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Keg at BD Soho. It pours jet black with a decent light tan head. The aroma is rich roasted maltage, rich espresso coffee, cocoa, vanilla, jammy blueberry, fudge, orange peel and pepper. The taste is rich, pretty bitter upfront, charred wood, dark roast coffee, mild acidity, peppery spice, grapefruit, orange peel, liquorice, burnt treacle with a dry, lingering bitter roast finish. Medium - full body and fine, foamy carbonation. Plenty of flavour and lots going, although I am not sure if it is in a harmonious fashion. Good fun nonetheless.
Tried
on 13 May 2016
at 06:47
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle shared at a tasting at Dancing Camel. Better Beer Of The Month Club. Black with a nice tan head. Roasty aroma with lots of coffee. Bittersweet flavor, roasty, with lots of coffee, a bit of dark chocolate, and a bitter finish. Quite full-bodied, rounded. Very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 May 2016
at 09:23
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Third in Doghouse. Very dark brown with a decent tan head. Strong coffee aroma, taste is coffee dominated with a very bitter hoppy finish. Lovely
Tried
on 07 May 2016
at 13:11
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
"bold, rich and full of American swagger" sounds like an adult incontinence product. Bottle. Black with a large tan head that fades to a cm. Aroma of earthy coffee, chocolate, chiles. Silky, low to moderate carbonation. Moderately sweet, lovely how you can’t tell where the roasted malt and bitter chocolate end and the actually coffee begins. Likewise the citrusy hops emerge from the coffee rather nicely. A bit chalky and the impression of chiles is odd, but it’s at once a solid and somewhat quirky stout. Both of those are good things. [3.8]Cheese match: Red Leicester.
Tried
from Can
on 06 May 2016
at 08:13
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Caña el el Ipa Gijón 01..05..2016. (238) Color negro intenso Con poca espuma beige. Aromas y sabores torrefactos y maltosos tostados Con toques de cacaos y alguna vainilla. Cuerpo ligero a medio fácil de beber fino y bastante líquido. Bastante buena y con sabor intenso. Para repetir sin duda.
Tried
on 06 May 2016
at 01:57
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Keg at BD Soho, 05/05/16. Extremely dark mahogany brown with a decent star shaped tam swirl. Nose is big on coffee grinds, peppery spice, marzipan, toffee, cocoa powder. Taste comprises milk chocolate, coffee cake, hazelnut, light spice, coffee grinds, light charr and scorched earth. Medium bodied, smooth on the palate, earthy roast and espresso in the close. Solid coffee impy.
Tried
on 05 May 2016
at 11:02
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Keg at Brewdog Soho, London. A dark brown/black coloured pour with a thin beige head on top. Rich, roasty, malty, coffee aroma. Tastes quite similar, rich, roasty, malty, espresso coffee, quite bitter but in a classy way. This was a decent Imperial stout from Stone, would like to try it from the bottle too.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 May 2016
at 16:34
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle from Beer Gonzo shop, Earlsdon, Coventry consumed at home sat down the office Wednesday 4th May 2016 Dark brown beer with a rim of light beige bubbles. Loads of coffee but also some caramel on the nose. Nice in the mouth, let’s and lots of coffee, however caramel shows here also, a touch sticky but also milky, rich and with some smooth coffee/chocolate combo’, Really soft mouthfeel, carbonation is lovely, sorme heavy late roastiness lingers. Good, very good. A7 A4 T8 P5 Ov16 4.0
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 May 2016
at 14:43
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
12oz bottle pours with a deep dark body that supports a long lasting reasonably tight dark tan head of foam. The aroma offers up malt and chocolate sweetened coffee notes where the coffee has a pleasing earthy quality intertwined with more chocolate into the end of the draw. The taste is pretty smooth and definitely rich as I get malt sweetened dark roasted coffee, yummy chocolate notes, a vague sting of hops and spicy black licorice. Toward the finish it picks up an earthy sort of coffee sensation. Solid stout. Imperial Stout though? Not sure the style listing is correct.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 May 2016
at 22:32