Fat Santa
Boatrocker Brewing Company in Braeside, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.23
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DreamAudit (3889) reviewed Fat Santa from Boatrocker Brewing Company 1 month ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8.5
From a 440ml can on 31/12/2025 (2025 edition, shared by Butz with me and Ed). Pours a deep brown with a small tan head that disappears. The aroma features a big coffee and chocolate with the barest hint of booze. Tastes of coffee, dark fruit, dark chocolate with hints of vanilla, and some warming booze. The palate is syrupy, the carbonation moderate. A complex, enjoyable coffee oriented sipper.
tiong (21350) reviewed Fat Santa from Boatrocker Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Rated at Hitas Beer Lounge - Platinum Edition. Roasty, dry and earthy with hints of tartness, hints of tonka, vanilla and syrup. A bit stingy and slightly boozy
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle. Very black with an inch of dense tan head that never quite disappears over the considerable time it took to drink half a litre of this. Aroma of deep roast, coffee, what I'm beginning to recognise as tonka beans, syrupy caramel. It's very nice and (unlike a few I've had recently) smells like it's stout that's driving the show, not spirits... but it does smells very sweet. And it is pretty sweet but hard roast, decent bitterness and a spicy oakiness keep it mosly in check. It's got fudgy mocha and almost unctuous vanilla. Oily with lowish carbonation. Right at the end, after the bitterness and peppery wood, there's a little burst of whisky. I really liked that that finish still imposed itself upon the richness. I liked this a little better than their Ramjet (the current #1 Australian beer).