Valente's Double Espresso
Black Wolf in Stirling, Stirling, Scotland 🏴
Scottish Ale Regular|
Score
6.30
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Ken1 (6159) reviewed Valente's Double Espresso from Black Wolf 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Aroma: Strong coffee and roasted malt. Flavour: Very strong coffee with roasted malt, and fairly fruity sweet. Colour: Very dark brown with a light brown head.
MiP (20379) reviewed Valente's Double Espresso from Black Wolf 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle, 6.0%. Extremely powerful coffee aroma, sweet and creamy. Black colour. Small frothy light brown head. The flavour has almost the same amount of coffee as the aroma. It is quite flavourful, but does not have the bitterness that some coffee does. Has a little sourness in the finish, reminds me of booziness but that would be surprising with only 6% ABV.
Bamsen78 (8684) reviewed Valente's Double Espresso from Black Wolf 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle. Pours cloudy very dark brown with small tan head. Clear aroma of coffee, with notes of roast, yeast and mild chocolate. Bitter, roasty flavour, with notes of lactose, coffee and malt and some estery touches. Coffeelike aftertaste with hints of dark chocolate. Nice.
hohops (2695) reviewed Valente's Double Espresso from Black Wolf 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Appearance is inky black, with a small fizzy beige head. Aroma- chocolate cake, fudge, roast coffee, treacle toffee, coffee cake. Taste- big roast coffee, espresso, coffee and walnut cake, melted dark chocolate, dark malts. It’s all about the coffee, but it’s good.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Valente's Double Espresso from Black Wolf 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8
Scottish coffee beer with light beige, creamy, moussy, ’natural’ head and very dark bronze colour, blackish but still translucid, hazy. Aroma shouts coffee all the way through, with impressions of mocha ice cream, cappuccino, cafè latte, caramel coffee... Everything is coffee-themed here and there are not many aromas of other components, though I do get some toast, dried apricot, hazelnut paste, vanilla and very vague herbal hops. The overpowering coffee bouquet makes me curious to dive into this. Taste begins with dried fruits, faintly sweetish with an equally weak sourish edge, soft carbo, lean and slick mouthfeel, caramelly in its basis, a bit toasted, sweetish with a honeyish touch to it but also a slightly metallic ’zing’; the coffee flavour gains strength as the palate proceeds and works strongly retronasally, aromatic and stimulating, leaving a bittersweet coating in the end, but without the deep roasted bitterness one would expect from coffee stouts - this is clearly intended to be a coffee beer without the evident stout associations. A gentle but satisfying earthy hoppiness rounds things off in the end without becoming deeply bittering, but needless to say, a resiny, bittersweet ’film’ of coffee clings to the mouth and will be the last thing you’ll remember of this. Something of a one-trick pony, coffee through and through, but rather coffee softened and sweetened with milk or cream rather than deeply bittering. Tasty, but only suitable for those who like a fragrant cup of ’real’ coffee every now and then; in this kind of mono-flavoured beers, everything depends on whether you like the prevailing flavour or not, I guess. In this case, I’m in, I sincerely enjoyed it, because it is funny. And enjoying beer is about having fun, right?
Fin (18516) reviewed Valente's Double Espresso from Black Wolf 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from Robroyston Asda, Glasgow, Scotland, Wednesday 17th June 2015 consumed at Craigendmuir campsite, Stepps, Glasgow the same day. Black in colour with a light beige head which is a little sticky, plenty of coffee, it’s also a touch creamy, just a tinsy bit thin in the mouth. Good. A6 A4 T7 P3 Ov13 3.3
Stuu (34178) reviewed Valente's Double Espresso from Black Wolf 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at the Larbert beer festival. Pours black, nose is roasted coffee, chocolate, taste is bitter coffee, chocolate.
TDA (6998) reviewed Valente's Double Espresso from Black Wolf 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle, small creamy beige head, opaque extremely dark brown colour, aroma of dark chocolate and mocha, flavour of roasted coffee, dark chocolate, dirt and a hint of coffee liquor, extremely smooth amd quite dry woth a medium bitterness. Nicely balanced amd highly enjoyable.
beerhunter111 (50837) reviewed Valente's Double Espresso from Black Wolf 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sehr dunkelbraunes Bier mit geringer beigen Schaumkrone. Geruch stark nach Kaffee, süß, leicht röstmalzig. Geschmack leicht röstmalzig, Kaffee, Espresso, süß.
DSG (25989) reviewed Valente's Double Espresso from Black Wolf 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle at the train station on the way to BG airport. Black with a tan head. Aroma of coffee, mocha, some chocolate and some liqueur-like booziness. Sweet flavor, coffee-ish, alcoholic, with some caramel and a hot boozy finish, a bit spicy and bitter. Medium-bodied. Interesting, but too sweet and boozy, especially for just 6%.