Coffee Stout (8%)
Pivovarna Pelicon in Ajdovščina, Gorizia, Slovenia 🇸🇮
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.30
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W/ Marcala Honduras Coffee.
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7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Strong coffee stout from the new Slovenian craft beer scene, thanks to Davor again. Very thick, densely creamy, regular head, almost ruddy beige in colour, over an ink black beer with thin mahogany edges. Very strong black unsugared coffee aroma, roasted chicory, burnt black toast, cigar ashes, leather, salmiak, dried elderberries, beef stock. Dry onset, clean with restrained dried blackcurrant and fig sweetishness along with black olive-like umami, very nutty from the start with softish carb and thick, oily mouthfeel. Toasted nutty malt body with strong burnt toast bitterness, unsugared chocolate and eventually, as expected, a strong bitter black coffee effect, not utterly aromatic but seamlessly merging with roasted grain bitterness and warmed by a dash of gin-like alcohol, with peppery hop notes in the tail. Like its sober and minimalistic label, this beer is quite straightforward, but offers what it promises: strong roasty ‘black’ bitterness accentuated by coffee bitterness. One for the true stouthead.
Tried
on 17 Dec 2018
at 14:14
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at Macro Beer Fest Maribor 2017. Shared with lovely Anja. Dark brown, small head. Very strong coffee presence, acidic, some vanilla. Coffee and chocolate flavours, great balance. Medium body, soft carbonation, smooth, lasting coffee finish. Nice, smooth, strong and aromatic.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Oct 2018
at 19:37
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
500mL bottle, pours jet black with a small brown head. Aroma brings out bitter coffee upfront, with light metallic notes and medium roast. Flavour is along the same lines, with metallic notes, bitter coffee and medium roast. A little too metallic, with a bitter finish. Solid.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Apr 2018
at 23:20
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, 0.5l. Pitch black pour, thin layer of beige head. Little to no lacing. Very nice on the nose - roasty, malty, strong coffee notes... Yummy. Medium to full body, soft carbonation. Thick texture, creamy mouthfeel. Medium bitter taste, pleasantly roasty. Aroma of roasted malts and coffee grains, plums and raisins. Cocoa powder. Caramel Cappuccino-like aftertaste. Dry and bitter finish. Overall, this one was quite tasty. Silky smooth and nicely balanced. Good stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2018
at 09:27