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 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
CBC. Black with small beige head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, smoke, liquorice and caramel. Flavour is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, little liquorice, little smoke, meat, caramel, hop, medium sweet and a little bitter.
Tried
on 14 Jul 2015
at 06:37
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught @ CBC 2015. Pours very dark brown with a creamy brown head, lacings. Aroma of roasted malt, caramel, wood, smoke, chocolate. Flavor of malt, wood, smoke, campfire, caremel, light alcohol. Medium body, soft carbonation, warming alcohol in the finish. 010515
Tried
on 04 Jul 2015
at 04:43
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Keg at the 4th Copenhagen Beer Celebration, Session 2, 01/05/2015. Black with a decent tan covering. Nose is dark fruit, rich roast, spice, chocolate. Taste comprises charr, toffee, chocolate, dark malt, fruit rinds. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Ok but lacking in depth for the ABV, very subtle on the smoke.
Tried
on 21 Jun 2015
at 14:05
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle at Church Key, DC. Almost black in the glass, with a small tan head. Licorice, burnt malts, dark sugar and molasses in the aroma. Some prunes. It’s full bodied, warming and smooth on the palate, with a nice carbonation. Licorice, molasses, burnt malts and a nice hoppy bitterness in the rather sweet flavor. Lasting sweet finish with molasses, burnt malts, prune notes and some hops. A bit heavy all the way this one. 150620
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2015
at 20:51
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pitch black coloured body that shows oil all over, with a thick, luscious, five centimetre tall rich brown head - very nice looking. Aroma of smoke, soy sauce, mushrooms, earth, caramel and bunches of oatmeal. Full-bodied; Rich malty flavours with some earthy notes, caramel, mushrooms and soy sauce noticeable, all with a smoked overtone throughout. Aftertaste shows more of the same with a bit of bacon flavour, more oatmeal and some rye even, alongside chocolate and coffee. Overall, a nice rich beer, full of good flavours, but nothing groundbreaking nor worth searching out. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased yesterday at Whole Foods (Bowery) in New York, New York for US$3,99 on 18-June-2015, sampled a day later in my hotel room on the LES of New York on 19-June-2015.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jun 2015
at 14:28
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tasting at Matt’s
Black color with small brown head. Aroma of roasted malts, spices, and hints of leather (7.5). Good body strength; strong flavor of roasted malts with some coffee, light liquorice; not much of the expected smoke. A bit too roasty/burnt in the final.
Nice beer.
Black color with small brown head. Aroma of roasted malts, spices, and hints of leather (7.5). Good body strength; strong flavor of roasted malts with some coffee, light liquorice; not much of the expected smoke. A bit too roasty/burnt in the final.
Nice beer.
Tried
on 14 Jun 2015
at 03:27
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap@CBC2015, Blue Session - pours black with a brown head. Aroma and taste comprises roasted malts, a big dark chocolate hit, some treacle, caramel, peaty, light spice, some light smoked notes (which is good for me as not a big smoked fan)
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Jun 2015
at 14:30