Surround
Stillwater in Grand Mound, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Two Roads Brewing CompanySmoked / Rauchbier Rotating Out of Production
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Score
7.43
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Like a sound system that fills the room with audibles swarming in every direction. This massive stout overtakes your senses with aromas & flavor of dark chocolate, caramel, roast, smoke, earth & wood, It's heavy I know, but you have to drop that bass every once in a while if you really wanna get down.
Label Design Notes: Surround's geometric pattern is based on a piece of tape used by an early analog computer that may have been used in multi-track music production during the 1960s. The type is set in Helvetica Neue LT Std so that we can maximize the area used for the pattern on the label without compromising legibility of the mandatory text.
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Gluepot (959) reviewed Surround from Stillwater 4 months ago
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 17
The nose features light chocolate, coffee and touch of dankness. The smokiness is well blended into the taste profile, adding to bitter chocolate, cream, coffee, and a hint of earthy hops. There is a slightly bitter coffee aftertaste, but it works. Well done
tricksta_p (13664) reviewed Surround from Stillwater 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
From tap at Oedipus International Beer Festival 2016. Aroma is roasted malt, chocolate, mild smoke, ’salmiak’ liqourice, touch of coffee. Flavour is moderate sweet and moderate to medium bitter. Good full body. Tasty Imperial Stout with a mild touch of smoke, which is the way I prefer my smoke.
kristincedar (7052) ticked Surround from Stillwater 1 year ago
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tokyobeerdrinker (9001) reviewed Surround from Stillwater 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Tap at Marciero. Aroma is smoke, roast, little spicy. Taste has some sweetness, roasty again but not so much smoke.
sjogro (11801) reviewed Surround from Stillwater 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Bottle at home. Thought this was gonna be a rauchbeer. It’s an impy with some smoke. Black with tan head. Big sweet deep roasted chocolate malts. Charcoal, molasses, ink, coffee, hazlenut, ash, peat, earthiness, salmiak, almond milky. Big sweet and bitter and quite some umami meatiness and seaweediness. Full body and soft Carbonation. Sticky. Is this smoked? I like it so it probably is. Moersleutel vibes. --- Beer merged from original tick of Stillwater Contemporary Works Surround on 25 Oct 2018 at 23:49 - Score: 8
Martin Lindström (24380) ticked Surround from Stillwater 7 years ago
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nathanvc (6963) reviewed Surround from Stillwater 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle from Dranken Geers, Oostakker. Shared with Anke.
Pours cloudy black with a small, foamy, beige head; little lacing. Complex aroma of milk chocolate, smoked ham & herring, candied raisin, cream, coffee liqueur, sweet tobacco, bourbon, beef stock, soy sauce, some apple (acetaldehyde, especially when warming up, but not disturbing). Medium malty sweet onset with dark fruit and fondant (powder), becoming light to medium roasted bitter, hint of coffee, with a slight wheaty sourness and umaminess (soy sauce) in the back. Dry, toasty finish, a dash of peppery hops, lingering chocolate malt and warming coffee liqueur alcohol. Full body, creamy texture, soft carbonation. Rich & complex, very likeable.
BeerPlace (10899) reviewed Surround from Stillwater 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
355ml bottle (thx, George!) shared with the wife. Pours a very dark brown with a dark beige head. Aroma is inky and just a bit smoky. Taste is sweet, inky, fruity. Good stuff.
minutemat (16258) reviewed Surround from Stillwater 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
355ml bottle @ Chez Sophie, Shrewsbury. Pours dark brown, medium off-white head. Aroma has good smoked malts. Taste is deep, complex, layered, with a decadent meaty-rich smokiness and almost cognac-like undertones. Intense.