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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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pour is a motor oil black with a large tan head. Aroma is a slight smoke with a sweet sugary molasses. Flavor is a nice char malt with some bakers chcocolate type sweetness. Finish leaves a nice roasted malt on the tongue. Not much smoke in this beer but it does have a nice dry and bitter roasted malt with no alcohol presence.
Tried
on 27 Feb 2016
at 18:34
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Black pour. Smooth aroma of smoke, bacon, roasted malt and chocolate. Taste of smokey ham, mild licorice, roasted malt, creamy chocolate and some bitters in the finish. Good stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Feb 2016
at 16:33
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5
Pours black with a large dark tan head.Nose shows vanilla, smoke, light musty notes, heavy roast and some booze.Flavours include aggressive roast, smoke and booze. Abrasively bitter.
Tried
on 10 Feb 2016
at 20:09
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Black with an inch of brown head that fades to a coat. Aroma of molasses, medium roast, soy sauce, mocha, an odd ripe banana note. Smooth, luscious, lowish carbonation. Very sweet with rather moderate roasted flavours. Maybe there’s a wisp of smoke, but only maybe. Gently dries out toward the end. Lowish bitterness. Alcohol is very well hidden. some singed flavours emerge after a while and the mocha tightens to mainly dark chocolate. Pretty good stout.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jan 2016
at 07:53
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught @ Stag’s Head. Inky black with small foamy beige head, faint mocha aroma, medium carbonation, mocha taste with alcohol undertones, thin body, long bitter mocha finish. Strong alcohol aroma, bitter but smooth brew.
Tried
on 17 Jan 2016
at 15:18
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
33cl bottle courtesy of and shared with Kermis. Thin creamy tan head. Clear deep burgundy pour. Nice smokey taste. Well hidden alcohol
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Dec 2015
at 14:43
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draught @ CBC2015. Pours pretty much pitch black with a creamy mocha head that leaves some sticky lacing and trace on the glass while dissiapting. Smell is malty, roasty and smokey with roasted malts, sweet dark bread, caramel, burnt wood, dark roast coffee, dark chocolate, moist soil and hints of alcohol. Taste is sweet, bitter, malty and smokey. Mouthfeel is soft, round, slightly astringent, tiny boozy and medium to full bodied. Finish is sweet and bitter with roasted malts, caramel, dark roast coffee, dark chocolate, peat, leather, moist soil and hints of alcohol. Ok impy with a decent smoke element. Good but fails to really take off.
Tried
on 11 Dec 2015
at 06:08
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draught@CBC2015 (blue session). Deep brown, close to black, colour with a small beigeish brown head. Aroma is roasted malts, mild wheat, citrus, liquorice and smoked wet wooden notes. Flavour is chocolate, some mild coffee roasted notes, liquorice, alcohol and mild wheaty and citrusy notes to it all. Ends in a quite dry smoked wooden and almost tar like notes.
Tried
on 30 Nov 2015
at 01:16
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
12oz bottle from Supermarket Liquor
Pours thick black with a small white tan head, some lacing. Aroma is mild smokiness, dark malts and ashy. Flavors of dark malts, grainy, ashy, chocolate and leather
Tasty and easy drinking
Pours thick black with a small white tan head, some lacing. Aroma is mild smokiness, dark malts and ashy. Flavors of dark malts, grainy, ashy, chocolate and leather
Tasty and easy drinking
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Nov 2015
at 19:11
8/10
Tried
on 17 Nov 2015
at 02:01