Barbary Coast
Almanac Beer Company in Alameda, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.26
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tricksta_p (13552) reviewed Barbary Coast from Almanac Beer Company 9 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can from Healthy Spirits - Castro, San Francisco. Aroma is strong coffee, dark malt, cacao nibs, vanilla, coffee grounds, milk chocolate, espresso beans, hint of chili pepper. Flavour is sweet with a very little chili burn. Body is medium to full. Very tasty coffee and cocoa heavy Imperial Stout, sweet and rich stuff.
voyageurmike (1083) reviewed Barbary Coast from Almanac Beer Company 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8
Opaque dark brown, virtually head-free. Syrupy full body. Chocolate, roasted malt and slight booze aroma. Bitter spicy chocolate, licorice, oak taste, big alcohol at the end with lingering finish.
bb (18337) reviewed Barbary Coast from Almanac Beer Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draft. Black beer with a tan head. Rich malt and light molasses aroma. Toffee and rich malt flavor with molasses. Medium-plus bodied. Molasses and rich malt lingers.
explosivedog (14053) reviewed Barbary Coast from Almanac Beer Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
650ml bottle. Pours black with a good head. Chocolate, charcoal, coffee, chilli pepper, more cocoa, salted caramel, little roast, more of that smoke, vanilla, oak. Full body. Beautiful.
Bytemesis (16171) reviewed Barbary Coast from Almanac Beer Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Pours opaque hickory, small tan head decent lacing. Aroma is roasty, cocoa, anise, vanilla. Flavor is light plus sweet, medium bitter; not getting peppers or salt, unfortunatel. I do get a bit of oak tannin and a fair bit of vanilla. Medium plus body. Good.
jake65 (5824) reviewed Barbary Coast from Almanac Beer Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draft at growler guys. Deep brown pour with a creamy tan head. Aroma is pretty heavy roast and char, a little smoky even. Tastes toasty, but a little sweetness comes through. Nice espresso notes. A little more smoke and light heat. Nice beer.
solidfunk (21802) reviewed Barbary Coast from Almanac Beer Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Vanilla, coffee, roast. Pours black with good head and lacing. Bittersweet finish. Bottle taste like street drinking.
stevoj (18137) reviewed Barbary Coast from Almanac Beer Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft at BitterCreek. Dark brown with small beige head. Aroma is mix of chocolate and roast malts. Taste follows with more of the same, nice texture, but finishes fast.
CLW (16720) reviewed Barbary Coast from Almanac Beer Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
22 oz. bottle shared by Willrunforbeer. No dating anyplace but the bottle is newer. Pitch black in color, almost no head. Aroma is caramel candy, dark chocolate, light smoke, light roast.
The flavor has the mild smoky hint right upfront with a mild roasted backbone. Caramel candy again with some bittersweet bakers chocolate in the center. My only gripe here is the thinner body. What I mean is thin for an imperial stout. (I had an Odd Side ales stout right before this that had a much better body and mouthfeel)
The pepper is mild and decently integrated in the other flavors. Overall, still a pretty nice stout, it just needs more of a beefy / fuller body.
Ibrew2or3 (10793) reviewed Barbary Coast from Almanac Beer Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
22oz bomber pours up with a dark mahogany colored body that supported a brief mocha head. The aroma offers up sweet malts and sweet molasses as well as cinnamon and chocolate coated graham cracker. At the end of the draw it gets a little boozy and dark fruity ester like. The taste smooth yet decidedly sweet with malts and molasses flowing into sweetened coffee. To midway a sweetened and soggy spicy oak note murmurs it’s way to the surface. Toward the finish smooth slick near velvety dark chocolate helps take this away from being just too sweet. I really don’t pick up any chili peppers. Decent.