Campfire Stout
High Water Brewing in Lodi, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout Regular|
Score
7.47
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Campfire Stout evokes fond memories of wilderness and camping adventures. Notes of chocolate and graham cracker topped with a hint of marshmallow will leave you wanting s’more. Like any campfire experience, this beer is best shared with a warm circle of family and friends.
Our newest full production release, available year round. This beer was a blast to create and brew. We put over 4 lbs per bbl of Graham crackers in the mash, we used chocolate malt and to top it off added a natural toasted marshmallow flavor. Our number one selling beer!
Our newest full production release, available year round. This beer was a blast to create and brew. We put over 4 lbs per bbl of Graham crackers in the mash, we used chocolate malt and to top it off added a natural toasted marshmallow flavor. Our number one selling beer!
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
This was poured into a nonic pint glass.
The appearance was a dark brown close to black color with an off white to tan foamy head that dissipated fairly quickly. Stringy lacing starts and slides into the beer.
The smell starts off with rich sweet milk chocolate with a light graham cracker lightening the sweetness. As it warmed, marshmallow does come out nicely. Some coffee notes do round it all out.
The taste was moderately sweet with the balance between the graham cracker maintaining a sweet to super light bitter coffee aftertaste. There’s a sweet sticky finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a nice sessionability about it. Carbonation runs extremely light, almost drinks like coffee it’s so smooth.
Overall, I liked it for me, but that mouthfeeel, holy sticky sweetness, they probably could have beefed up the carbonation on this one and everything would have been okay.
The appearance was a dark brown close to black color with an off white to tan foamy head that dissipated fairly quickly. Stringy lacing starts and slides into the beer.
The smell starts off with rich sweet milk chocolate with a light graham cracker lightening the sweetness. As it warmed, marshmallow does come out nicely. Some coffee notes do round it all out.
The taste was moderately sweet with the balance between the graham cracker maintaining a sweet to super light bitter coffee aftertaste. There’s a sweet sticky finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a nice sessionability about it. Carbonation runs extremely light, almost drinks like coffee it’s so smooth.
Overall, I liked it for me, but that mouthfeeel, holy sticky sweetness, they probably could have beefed up the carbonation on this one and everything would have been okay.
Tried
on 05 Sep 2015
at 19:55
8/10
Tried
on 04 Sep 2015
at 13:56
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft pour at Churchill’s. Poured a pitch black color with a small tan head. Aroma was light s’mores, graham cracker is most apparent. Light chocolate with a little bit of graham cracker is there in the flavor with a little campfire smoke in there to boot. Pretty tasty!
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Aug 2015
at 20:00
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Glass at beertemple amsterdam, Black beer, small head, aroma is coffee, roasted, chocolate. Taste is the same, somewhat sweet and bitter.
Tried
on 14 Aug 2015
at 07:36
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Almost black with good creamy foam. Aroma: vanilla and very sweet chocolate. Taste: chocolate, cream, cappuccino with chocolate and brandy, vanilla.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Aug 2015
at 06:51
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. A sweet beer. Roasted malt of coirse. Sugar, sweet potato, and marshmellow. No smoke, which i was hoping for based on the name.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jul 2015
at 13:02
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle, 650 ml at Svijet Piva, Zagreb. Shared with Marko and others. Pours black with light brown head. Chocolate aroma. Caramel, chocolate bit fruity and lactose. Good one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jul 2015
at 13:38
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours a dark brown with small beige head that diminishes to nothing. The aroma is marshmallow and chocolate. Medium mouth, similar flavors to nose, very sweet, cracker malt, really good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2015
at 16:11
8.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Draft @ beer temple. Blackish pour, white brown head. Aroma of liquid chocolate and creamy milk. Taste is very creamy and milky, with soft milk chocolate, marshmallow and a mild coffee-ish bitter in the finish. This is liquid desert, like the Dutch desert Hopjesvla. Fantastic beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Jun 2015
at 05:57
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Thanks Vanja, Iznogud & Co.! Almost black body, dark head. Nothing too remarkable, typically nice. I’ve heard nothing but superlatives about this one from those in the Croatian crew who’ve tried it, but even that didn’t prepare me for the sublime, wonderful, beautiful cocoa/milk chocolate aroma that wafted from the glass... The same thankfully continued into the taste, only buried in layers of caramel. Not much hops, but this didn’t need hops. Wow, wow wow wow! Beer of the day and the competition was awesome!Note: City of origin was apparently San José so this batch was brewed at Hermitage I guess.
Tried
on 19 Apr 2015
at 16:42