Hot Pistol

NoDa Brewing Company in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸

Stout - Milk / Sweet Special

Score

7.01

ABV: 7.3%

IBU: 20

Ticks: 5

This awesome stout is all over the place in the best of ways. This winning brew from our first Homebrew competition is based a solid American stout but then gets cranked up in flavor complexity while staying surprisingly balanced. First, the beer is essentially turned into a milk/sweet stout with the addition of lactose, increasing the mouthfeel and finishing sweetness. Then it is accented with a perfect portion of cocoa nibs to enhance the dark chocolate character of the toasty malts. After the beer is in the fermenter, we add raspberry puree to add a unique, fruity aroma of fresh raspberries that act like the “raspberry (instead of cherry) on top of the desert”. After fermentation is finished we steep the beer on several pounds of dried habanero peppers and the inject them into the beer. The pepper isn’t very present in the taste but gives a satisfying swell of gear at the end of the sip! Grains used are Two Row, Chocolate malt, Caramunich malt, chocolate wheat malt, toasted barley, carafa3. Hops are Magnum and Cascade.

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johnnnniee (7495) reviewed Hot Pistol from NoDa Brewing Company 7 years ago

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

Shared by M Howard last night, thanks for the hookup! Dark inky black with an off white head that persists. Rich roasty chocolate with hints of caramel and a nondescript fruitiness. There is a lingering warming spice in the background that some other people said was too much but I enjoyed the hell out of this beer!

Tried on 11 Nov 2018 at 03:21

maniac (11822) ticked Hot Pistol from NoDa Brewing Company 8 years ago

Dark black bod sml creamy tan head.spicy choc and roast arma. Choc rasp and mild pepper flav. Med bod mod carb. 7/5/8/3/15 3.8

Tried from Draft on 28 Jan 2018 at 14:06

7.5

Travlr (30173) reviewed Hot Pistol from NoDa Brewing Company 10 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

draft at the source. Opaque brown color, tan head. Peppers show up first in the aroma, muted slightly by the raspberry. Peppers up front in the taste too, with both fruit and roast in the background. Interesting.

Tried from Draft on 13 Dec 2015 at 12:52

6.9

LeninCat (7983) reviewed Hot Pistol from NoDa Brewing Company 11 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

GABF 2014. Pours a deep reddish orange appearance with a cream colored head. Berry, dark fruit, and some roast in the nose. Chocolate raspberry flavor with just a bit of spiciness. Kind of thin. Low bitterness. Ok.

Tried on 02 Nov 2014 at 22:36

6.6

Lubiere (24459) reviewed Hot Pistol from NoDa Brewing Company 12 years ago

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

7% 29 IBU. Raspberry chocolate habanero stout. A dark brown stout with no head. In aroma, sweet chocolate and green peppers, grassy hops, OK. In mouth, a sweet chocolate with light pepper burn, fruity notes, light raspberry, OK.

Tried on 01 Sep 2013 at 19:18