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
7.47
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Imperial oak smoked wheat stout.
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.
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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7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
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
Tried
on 23 Sep 2025
at 20:01
8/10
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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.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Feb 2025
at 15:38
6/10
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Tried
on 13 Dec 2024
at 16:57
7.8/10
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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.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Sep 2019
at 16:03
5/10
Tried
on 27 Dec 2018
at 15:09
8/10
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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
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Oct 2018
at 22:03
8/10
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Tried
on 06 Sep 2018
at 09:28
8.6/10
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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.
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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jun 2018
at 11:40
7.9/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Apr 2018
at 06:03
8.9/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2017
at 15:53