Head Start
Sufferfest Beer Company in San Francisco, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured Regular|
Score
6.52
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Frothingslosh (19093) reviewed Head Start from Sufferfest Beer Company 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Black with a large fluffy brown head. Sourish, a bit metallic, roasty, brewed coffee and coconut.
solidfunk (21946) reviewed Head Start from Sufferfest Beer Company 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Roast and coconut. Easy drinking but a little light on flavour. Black murky brown pour. Bitter end. Can.
jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Head Start from Sufferfest Beer Company 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Deep dark brown coloured body with a thick, relatively soapy and fast-dying light brown head. Aroma of deep roasted malt, coconut, and toffee, caramelised sugars, molasses and some pitted fruits, all with a good deal of both vanilla and lactose showing towards the end as well. Light-bodied; Strong very enjoyable vanilla flavour with a good kick of cream and lactose notes that give some complexity and depth while being fairly easy-drinking with a dry and oaty that almost gives this a 'mild' like flavour (the style, not a minimal taste). Aftertaste shows more of the roast and caramelised sugars with a good deal of both vanilla and cream that does a pretty good job of bridging the stye of a sweet stout into something as light as this one is, especially in terms of how flavourful this one is, but how easy it goes down. Overall ,a nice and enjoyable beer that is very mild and light, but still showing a lot of flavours and depth/complexity throughout. I sampled this twelve ounce can purchased from Harris Teeter in Arlington (Pentagon Row), Virginia on 02-September-2020 for US$1,87 sampled at my house here in Washington on 11-September-2020, Patriot Day, here especially a few feet from the Pentagon.
cheap (9533) reviewed Head Start from Sufferfest Beer Company 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Can as pictured for a dollar at JR's. Unexpectedly nice darkish stout/porter look with a decent tan rocky head. Smells fairly fresh & stouty and all. Even has some olfactory of impy coffee stout in there. Taste is mellow coffee and deeper chocolate on a malty background. In the middle the coffee, though not strong, starts to come forward in a little annoying way, maybe its adding shades of no-heat pepper flavor in there. How about how everybody and their mother has now jumped on the craft beer wagon wave? Pretty sad, considering how many bullshit beers there are out there.
tfontana (7277) reviewed Head Start from Sufferfest Beer Company 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Can (8/6/19) pour from Harvest Market, Bedford (R.I.P.). Appearance is clear very dark brown (virtually opaque, but ruby red element with light source directly behind), trace sparkle, finger-width beige head with poor retention and trace lacing. Aroma is pleasant mix of roasted malt, coffee, coconut as would be expected. Taste is strong coconut over the roasted malt and coffee with the product yielding a burning plastic quality. Mouthfeel is medium side of light-to-medium bodied with frothy texture, lively carbonation and crisp finish devoid of a lot of flavor and mild lingering roasted bitterness. Overall, appearance and aroma are decent enough and I really thought they might have something here. Flavor combination/recipe needs to be reworked and way too carbonated.
CLW (16859) reviewed Head Start from Sufferfest Beer Company 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
12 oz. can in a trade with tfontana. Canned 08/09/19Aroma is soft coconut with weak coffee. Flavor is mild chocolate, weak coffee, and a hint of coconut. Considering the age and the ABV of this beer it’s not bad. Hands-down the best of the 3 Sufferfest I’ve tried.
nuplastikk (10473) reviewed Head Start from Sufferfest Beer Company 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
12oz can. Rather thin bodied for a Stout, not a lot of malt depth, but pretty good for a gluten free-ish beer I suppose. I personally wouldn't have picked the mix pack up if I knew it was gluten free stuff. Comes off a little soda-like. Caramel, chocolate, faint coconut, faint coffee. All around mediocre, surely would not revisit.
Drake (22934) reviewed Head Start from Sufferfest Beer Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 ounce can from Festival Northland, 2/28/20. Dark brown, thin fizzy tan head. Aroma of chocolate, coconut, roast. Taste is bitter roast, coffee, chocolate, mild coconut. Medium bodied, crisp. Nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
A deep roasty stout malt nose to it. You can catch a bit of coconut on the edge of the nose. A clumpy brown head over a dark brown body. Okay, I can catch the coconut in the taste, too. It's not overdone, which is good for me who never cared for coconut. It does kind of swerve attention away from the coffee in the beer, but that's my own opinion.
Bitterbill (4330) reviewed Head Start from Sufferfest Beer Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Canned August 19th.
It pours a really dark brown with another monster head of foam. Off white going on tannish.
It smells kinda artificial to me. Okay, coconut water must different attributes than a beer brewed with coconut. I have to take deep whiffs to get any of the coffee.
There's definitely some added coffee in the taste. The coconut is much more sublime. Could be a good thing.
Mouthfeel is pretty good.
Interesting but not interesting enough to have again.