Dulce de Leche Stout
The Saint Louis Brewery (Schlafly Beer) in St. Louis, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured Regular|
Score
7.07
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. So this one has sat in the back of the fridge for WAY too long... pours like a stout. I'm sure you can imagine it without my description. Aromas are decidedly coffee heavy at first, which is a bit of a surprise. After just a bit of time airing out and warming I get a bit of a caramel/dulce de leche aroma/cinnamon toast, which is also a bit of a surprise since someone left this in the fridge for ages. Guess those aromas hold up well! Flavor is a pretty decent stout with a bit of that cinnamon and vanilla to the finish. Coffee up front, sweet on the backside. Mouthfeel is kinda thin. ABV is well hidden. Really good beer, especially after a couple years in cold storage.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
12oz bottle. 5.7% clearly stated on the bottle. Brown black body. I get coffee the most, vanilla and cinnamon coming in strong too. I like this better than some of the others in the pastry pack, but this is still pretty mundane, a little pedestrian for the sort of extravagant style that it sort of is/should be. Drinkable. but leans heavily into the adjuncts and doesn't have the depth to back it up. OK.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Coffee, caramel, chocolate malt, and dry hay aroma. Black with large tan head. Surprisingly lightly sweet caramel chocolate malt and mildly bitter dry hay flavor. Good body. Nice - not nearly as sweet as I expected.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pour is a black with a small tan head. Aroma is pretty much all things cinnamon. Not much else shows up besides that. Flavor is is again all cinnamon with a little roasted chocolate malt in the back round. If you like a ice spiced ale then this is for you. Big and heavy on the cinnamon here.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Cinnamon, charred oak, burnt caramel nose. Cola brown, thick tan head. Charred oak, cinnamon. Medium body, moderate carbonation. Weird acidity prevents this beer from reaching its full potential.