Original Medical Stout
La Calavera in Girona, Catalonia, Spain 🇪🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.33
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tricksta_p (13664) reviewed Original Medical Stout from La Calavera 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from De Bierverteller, Utrecht. Aroma is roasted malt with chocolate, salty liquorice, ash, coffee, some mocha, bit burnt. Flavour is pretty bitter with a medium sweetness. Body is medium to full. Roasty and bitter, very good Imperial Stout.
Biilz (2915) reviewed Original Medical Stout from La Calavera 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Аромат немного суховат, ощущается прежде всего кофе, черный шоколад кислый. Цвет черный, слегка маслянистое тело. Вкус слегка посредственный. Суховат, ощущается много жженого сололода. Черный шоколад, не скажу что он вкусный. При послевкусие сильная горечь от хмеля, несбалансированость. Есть нотки кофе, но не зерен, а скорее растворенное. В целом обычный и скучный стаут в очень претенциозной упаковке.
Dorain (2838) reviewed Original Medical Stout from La Calavera 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Aus der Flasche (bbe 10.2025) im 2022-12 getrunken. Dieses Stout kommt gleich neben einem sehr kräftigen Schokoladenaroma mit eine feinen Fruchtsäure daher. Am Gaumen ist von der Frúchtsäure nichts mehr zu entdecken dafür dominiert hier das dunkle Schokoladen-Aroma was im Abgang sehr trocken wird und ein recht bitterer Geschmack zurück bleibt.
Jybi (2409) reviewed Original Medical Stout from La Calavera 3 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Pas certain que ce Medical Stout vous remette d'aplomb et c'est un imperial stout raté que nous propose la Cavalera. Celui-ci sans intensité, sans présence en bouche, avec un alcool à 8,5 % mal contrôlé, une texture très fine et des arômes très particuliers n'a pas grand-chose pour elle. Et si le côté ludique de la bouteille de sirop est sympathique, je fus reconnaissant à la brasserie d'avoir limité la contenance à 20 cl. En verre nous sommes sur un noir total sans effervescence et sans mousse. Le nez est sur un cocktail particulier sur le café, la date, le raisin, le chocolat et la noisette. Mais en bouche cela devient très particulier. L'attaque est très aqueuse avec en rétro des arômes de plastique peu appréciables. La deuxième bouche est dans la continuité...on cherche alors les arômes de café ou chocolat. L'arrière bouche est sur un alcool particulièrement agressif pour son titrage. Le final est sans grand intérêt. Au moins, un médicament, quand il n'est pas bon, on se dit que cela va nous guérir. Ici, je ne vois pas d'intérêt.
wombat23 (6032) reviewed Original Medical Stout from La Calavera 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draft at Taphouse. Pours almost black with a tan head. Roasted malt, dark chocolate, coffee, lactose.
Martin Lindström (24380) ticked Original Medical Stout from La Calavera 4 years ago
fonefan (84534) reviewed Original Medical Stout from La Calavera 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draught @ The Scrapyard, 🇳🇱 Pettemerstraat 23, 1823 CW Alkmaar, Netherlands.
[ As La Calavera Medical Stout ].
ABV: 8.5%. Hazy light dark red brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, light chocolate. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, roasted, chocolate, caramel, dark malt, dry. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20190929]
7-4-7-4-15
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Original Medical Stout from La Calavera 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
1 March 2020. At Dok Brewing Company, with the lovely Anke. Cloudy black with a lasting, small, yellowish beige head. Aroma of dried fig, mushrooms, black olive, leather, plum, vanilla, cappuccino. Taste has sweetish fig, chocolate & nuts with an umami olive edge; herbal touch & bitter coffee powder accompany dark chocolate in the middle. Finish is dry, earthy hoppy, lingering umami notes, chocolate & warming coffee liqueur/whisky alcohol. Medium to full body, oily texture, soft carbonation. I actually expected more 'medicinal' flavours here (perhaps those you'd expect in peated whisky) but anyway, it's a very solid Imperial Stout.
Stuu (34525) reviewed Original Medical Stout from La Calavera 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Wee bottle at home. Pours black, nose is smoky, biscuit, chocolate, liquorice, taste is similar, sweet, little thin.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Original Medical Stout from La Calavera 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Strong stout by this Catalonian craft brewer, from tap at Dok Brewing Company. According to the brewer, who was present at Dok and whom I had a chat with, this one is called ‘medical’ because of the ‘pharmaceutical’ (cough syrup) bottles it comes in – see the image shown here… Undoubtedly this also refers to the historical image of stout as a tonic beneficial to one’s health. Anyway: medium thick, creamy but gradually opening, mocha-beige head on a pitch black beer. Aroma of coffee grounds, ‘fondant’ chocolate, espresso, treacle, roasted chicory, nutmeg, old raisins, bayleaf, cloves, whisky. Sweetish onset, dried figs and dates, very light beefy umami accent, soft; medium carbonation (actually on the fizzy side for this style), hard-caramelly, hazelnutty and bitter-chocolatey malt body, quickly evolving to a long, coffeeish roasted bitterness, peppery, drying and mouth-filling yet remaining well in balance with the more caramelly sweetness. Lots of bitter black chocolate, spicy hops and warming but not annoyingly wry, brandy-like alcohol in the finish, tying everything together. Classic flavour pattern for an imperial stout – even a bit ‘old school’ in fact, no frills, exaggerated alcohol strength or exaggerated sweetness, just a plain old imperial stout the way they were made twenty or thirty years ago. Extremely well balanced, lovely beer.