Dia De Los Serranos
Green Flash Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.42
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Turn up the heat with our Dia de los Serranos Double Stout. With rich layers of flavor reminiscent of your abuela’s celebrated mole recipe, this Double Stout reveals notes of roasted malt, coffee, and sweet bakers chocolate with a caliente kick of fresh Serrano Chiles. Paired with spicy foods or BBQ, it’s delicioso. ¡Dios mío! I’m going to need una mas…
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at home. Pours black, nose is chocolate, liquorice, roasted, taste is sweet, chocolate, cocoa, earthy, light spice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jun 2016
at 01:53
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
650 ml bottle. Pours black with short tan head. Aromas of oily black coffee, ashy roast pepper, and dusty roasted malts. Flavors of dark chocolate, ash, hot peppers and roasted malts. Quite a bit of a burn - which is quite distracting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jun 2016
at 22:34
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
A deep dark stout with a thin brown head. In aroma, sweet chocolate malt with loads of roasted Serrano pepper, light coriander, nice and smooth. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity chocolate malt with smooth hot pepper, nice vanilla extract, alcohol warmth, very nice and smooth. Bottle from Gloria Rakowsky, tasted at ratebeer Quebec gathering 2016.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jun 2016
at 19:08
8/10
Tried
on 07 Jun 2016
at 20:21
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
$7.99 big bottle from Wine Warehouse. Pours black with a small head. Aroma of coffee, chocolate, and definite peppers. Taste is a creamy chocolate-coffee with some vegetation that slowly creeps up with a nice back-end heat.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 May 2016
at 07:19
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Sample at Winking Lizard Westerville during the "Get Green with Green Flash Night" event on 05/17/2016. Brown-black color with a medium foamy beige head that diminishes steadily to a film. Small patches of lace. Roast malt, coffee and peppers in the nose. Medium body with flavors of roasted coffee, chocolate malt and serrano pepper. The finish is roasty and peppery. Above average overall.
Tried
on 24 May 2016
at 10:32
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Dark brown color. Intense baker’s chocolate, Serrano pepper, coffee and dark fruits in the nose. Full bodied, slightly sweet, but well balanced, nice amount of heat but never over the top and the Serrano peppers are very apparent and deep. Super fantastic bakers chocolate and pepper finish that goes on forever. One of the best pepper stouts I’ve had.
Earlier Rating: 2/6/2014 Total Score: 3.9
pitch black color. The nose doesn’t have such a prominent chilli character and is a bit subdued but the mouth is burst with fudge, dark chocolate character with pepper lightly hitting the back of your throat. Really nice balance on chocolate and chilli pepper. Lingering chocolate finish with pepper just lingering.
Earlier Rating: 2/6/2014 Total Score: 3.9
pitch black color. The nose doesn’t have such a prominent chilli character and is a bit subdued but the mouth is burst with fudge, dark chocolate character with pepper lightly hitting the back of your throat. Really nice balance on chocolate and chilli pepper. Lingering chocolate finish with pepper just lingering.
Tried
on 20 May 2016
at 23:57
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Chuck's Hop Shop in Seattle-USA. Pours black color, brownish head retention and lacing. Nose: bitter cocoa, chili pepper, Christmas cookies. Mouth: terrific, velvet coffee, mocha and the chili is so redundant and proper. Top ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Tried
from Draft
on 07 May 2016
at 17:02
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap at Stone. Thanks to Sakamoto-san! Huge milk chocolate forward nose, lots of roasted cacao nib and light espresso notes as well. More chocolate on the palate with baked chocolate and then it hits you. The chilli peppers hit the palate and the finish and then really linger. They actually meld pretty well alongside the chocolate notes. Hides the abv well. Very good.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Apr 2016
at 07:42
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On the bottle, best by date of 04 Sep 16.
This was poured into a snifter.
The appearance was a dark brown close to black color with a one finger white to off white foamy head. Light lacing running here and there.
The smell started off with the Serrano chili spice blending nicely with some milk chocolate.
The taste was basically the same, but came off a bit more leaning towards the spice. Milk chocolate is there, but not too much. Some of the roasty coffee bean comes out lightly. But the aftertaste and finish seem to be all about the Serrano chilis.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with a pure sipping quality about it due to the chilis coming across the way they do. Carbonation seems to definitely run light enough to allow spicy heat to pretty much overtake the feel, damn, this comes across super hot all around,
Overall, good imperial stout for the qualities Green Flash wanted. But the heat part, yeah, they could tone that back a bit. There’s nothing \"delicately spiced.\" Sorry, Green Flash, I’m calling party foul.
This was poured into a snifter.
The appearance was a dark brown close to black color with a one finger white to off white foamy head. Light lacing running here and there.
The smell started off with the Serrano chili spice blending nicely with some milk chocolate.
The taste was basically the same, but came off a bit more leaning towards the spice. Milk chocolate is there, but not too much. Some of the roasty coffee bean comes out lightly. But the aftertaste and finish seem to be all about the Serrano chilis.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with a pure sipping quality about it due to the chilis coming across the way they do. Carbonation seems to definitely run light enough to allow spicy heat to pretty much overtake the feel, damn, this comes across super hot all around,
Overall, good imperial stout for the qualities Green Flash wanted. But the heat part, yeah, they could tone that back a bit. There’s nothing \"delicately spiced.\" Sorry, Green Flash, I’m calling party foul.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Apr 2016
at 12:00