Half Pints Brewing Co. Stir Stick Stout

Stir Stick Stout

 

Half Pints Brewing Co. in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 🇨🇦

  Stout Regular
Score
6.89
ABV: 6.0% IBU: 35 Ticks: 23
Our Stir Stick Stout is robust with ruby highlights and a generous addition of locally roasted fair trade, organic Ethiopian Yirgacheffe coffee.The beans lend a distinct chocolate aroma and flavour that blends well with the roasted barley and malty sweetness.A woody bitterness rounds out this ale and makes it the perfect match for barbequed buffalo burgers, sweet desserts like chocolate lava cake or with vanilla ice cream as a decadent beer float.
 

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6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Poured from 341 mL bottle. Black with beige head. Strong coffee aroma with some roast malt and mild chocolate. Predominant light coffee and roast malt flavour. Body medium-light +.
Tried from Bottle on 31 May 2014 at 21:43

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
341 ml bottle. Pours a very dark brown with medium head that dissipates quickly leaving spotty lacing. Aromas of fresh roast coffee, dark chocolate, and heavily roasted malts. Flavors of black coffee, ash, and watery vanilla.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Apr 2013 at 16:39

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 4 Overall 8.5
Bottle - Dark rich chocolate with only a hint of bitterness. Opaqu brown/black with a rich thick brown head. Nice sweet chocolate notes, very mild bitterness and a very mild finish. Very mellow and the coffee/chocolate doesn’t overwhelm. Body is much too light for this style though, I would of preferred something a little richer. Still a very good beer, I would happily drink this again.
Tried from Bottle on 25 Dec 2012 at 17:48

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
On second taste this is much better than the first time I had it. Lots of coffee and quite a lot of bitterness in this. Pours black with some mocha head and lacing. Some light sourness in finish. Bottle thanks to iphonephan.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Aug 2011 at 02:34

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a dark brown color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty caramel chocolate aroma. Roasted malty chocolate flavor. Has a roasted malty chocoalte caramel finish.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Aug 2011 at 03:17

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bouteille 341ml, courtoisie de Hogtownharry. De couleur noire et opaque. Nez de malt rôti, de café, moyen de chocolat noir, léger de chocolat au lait (notes lactiques) et de houblon herbeux (herbes mouillées) avec des traces de fruits (cerises noires). Moyennement ronde en bouche avec un pétillement moyen et une texture légèrement crémeuse. Léger goût de chocolat au lait (faibles notes lactiques) accompagné de traces de fruits (cerises noires) et de fumée de bois lors de l’entrée en bouche auquel se rajoute rapidement un goût de malt rôti (faibles notes terreuses) ainsi qu’un moyen goût de chocolat noir. Parallèlement, l’on retrouve un goût de café qui s’installe progressivement jusqu’en finale avec une légèere amertume de houblon herbeux. Post-goût moyen, léger-moyen amer de rôti, moyen de café et léger de chocolat.
Tried on 20 Sep 2010 at 17:15

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
341mL bottle, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma of intensely dark roasted espresso, some chocolate and malty sweetness. Flavour isn't as potent, nor high in complexity, but the slightly bitter dark roasted espresso is most dominant. Somewhat bitter finish and even a bit watery. Quite good.
Tried from Bottle on 25 Aug 2010 at 21:32

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Black color; large head, solid. Aroma of roasted malt, coffee (strong) and yeast, quite obvious. Dry mouthfeel, strong roasted malt and chocolate flavor, with liquorice; coffee and light yeast in the end, a bit creamy. Not exceptional, but with some extra peculiar points..
Tried on 20 Jun 2010 at 15:21

6.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Black, lasting brown head.Nice dry roasty nose with a hint of fruit. More of same in flavor, heavy espresso roast, decent bitterness in finish, but do I detect a slight cat piss taste a la citrus hops?. Strange...
Tried on 11 Mar 2008 at 18:55

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Very dark brown colour. Thin head. Aroma has big coffee with light nuts and dark chocolate. Somewhat thin at the front with dominant coffee. But just when I feel the coffee fading to vegetal harshness, a dose of milk chocolate malts come in to round everything out and (along with a light oiliness) fill out the body. Unfortunately, over the course of a bomber these high points are fleeting and the thin, immature coffee-dominated character keeps coming through.
Tried on 26 Nov 2006 at 01:00