Irish Blessing
Boulder Beer Company in Boulder, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured Regular|
Score
7.00
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Deep cola brown with a bubbly beige head. Aroma is whiskey, dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee. Initial taste is coffee, roast, chocolate, whiskey. Fades to roast, char, oak. Carbonation is excessive. Body is a bit thin. Not bad but not one I'll revisit.
SHIG (13882) reviewed Irish Blessing from Boulder Beer Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can: Poured a deep dark black with a creamy head. Aroma is thick roasted malts, chocolate. Taste is roasted malty, tingle of Jameson, chocolate.
jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Irish Blessing from Boulder Beer Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Deep dark brown coloured body with a relatively large, three centimetre tall lighter brown, soapy and frothy head that seems to last for quite a while. Aroma of dry roasted malt, hay, earth, nuts, pitted fruits, light peat and a dose of coffee towards the end - nice and robust and bitter from the onset. Light to Medium-bodied; Strong rich malty and nutty flavours show first with a lightly bitter punch, some subdued, but noticeable spices and ending with some chocolate sweetness and a tiny bit of coffee bitterness, but it ends in more of a robustly malty note. Aftertaste shows the sweeter malty and nutty sides of the flavour with a noticeable lactose and creamy injection towards the end with a dash of coffee and bitterness from the alcohol or astringency at the finish. Overall, a respectable Sweet Stout that is aged nicely by the brewery and perhaps even better by me. I sampled this twelve ounce can, purchased from BeerTopia in Omaha, Nebraska on 05-February-2018 for US$1,67 sampled at home in Washington on 16-December-2019 as Beer #16 of my 2019 Advent Calendar.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On Tap at Berts, Ontario. Dark borwn pour with a lasting coarse tan head and thick sheets of lacing. Choholate and medum roast. A littel charcoal and a not much in IBU bitterness at the end. Pretty big for a brown ale, pretty tame for a stout.
Edwgallo (6795) ticked Irish Blessing from Boulder Beer Company 6 years ago
solidfunk (21946) reviewed Irish Blessing from Boulder Beer Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Roast and some milk, though light. Coffee. Black pour with good head and lacing. Bitter end. Tap at bar.
Troopie (5667) reviewed Irish Blessing from Boulder Beer Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7
Black pour with thin tan head. Coffee and malt aroma. Some barrel notes with the coffee and toffee in the taste. Long finish
Anders37 (30296) reviewed Irish Blessing from Boulder Beer Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draft @ Banger Brewing Company, Las Vegas, NV. Pours a black color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty weak woody coffee chocolate aroma. Roasted malty woody coffee chocolate flavor. Has a roasted malty woody chocolate coffee finish.
superspak (10160) reviewed Irish Blessing from Boulder Beer Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Got in a trade with The-Adjunct-Hippie. 12 ounce can into pint glass, best before 5/24/2018. Pours crystal clear very dark brown color with a 1 finger fairly dense khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of big milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, nutty coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toasted oak, whiskey, and dark bread; with lighter notes of vanilla, smoke, char, dark fruit, pepper, herbal, and roast/toasted earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of roast/bready malts, whiskey/oak, and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, nutty coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toasted oak, whiskey, and dark bread; with lighter notes of vanilla, smoke, char, dark fruit, pepper, herbal, and roast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate roast/char/herbal bitterness and whiskey/oak spiciness on the finish. Lingering notes of milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, nutty coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toasted oak, whiskey, dark bread, light smoke/char, herbal, pepper, and roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of roast/bready malts, whiskey/oak, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a great roasted bitter/sweet and whiskey/oak spiciness balance; with zero acrid/astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from hop/char bitterness and whiskey/oak spiciness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/silky/bready, and fairly sticky/chalky/tannic balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol for 6.2%. Overall this is a delicious oak aged dry stout style. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of roast/bready malts, whiskey/oak, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the mellowly bitter/drying finish. Not a ton of whiskey presence, but solid. Good overall oak presence. Rich malts and balancing earthy hops. A very enjoyable offering, and great style example. Bit of an imperial version of the style.
cheap (9533) reviewed Irish Blessing from Boulder Beer Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4
Tap at Patrick's. Nitro. Big & black. Creamy tan head. Yes, nose is coffee. Excellent lacing BTW. Completely flat of course. Can't taste the whisky or oak in this one and I'm glad, so tired of those barrel beers. Difficult stout in the middle but never rises to impy level. A little uncivilized in the coffee arena in the end. A little co2 would make this more palatable.