Wide Eye
Lucky Bucket Brewing Company in La Vista, Nebraska, United States 🇺🇸
Stout Regular|
Score
7.29
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Rennat42 (5616) reviewed Wide Eye from Lucky Bucket Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle. A- Coffee, mocha, chocolate, roasty, earthy. A- Black color, dark liquid, tan head. T- Coffee, roasty, mocha, slightly dry, slightly bitter. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, balanced finish. O- This is almost on par with Founders Breakfast Stout. Very tasty. The coffee imparts flavors of chocolatey mocha and some roasty earty bitterness. Very well done. I imagine if they did some variants of this with coconut or vanilla or even a light barrel aging it would really up it.
superspak (10160) reviewed Wide Eye from Lucky Bucket Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Got in a trade with The-Adjunct-Hippie. 12 ounce bottle into pint glass; no bottle dating, but is a recent new release. Pours crystal clear very dark brown color with a 1-2 finger dense khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big nutty medium roast coffee, milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, brown sugar, and toasted brown bread; with light vanilla, smoke, dark fruit, herbal, and roast/toasted earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of coffee and dark/roast/bready malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big nutty medium roast coffee, milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, brown sugar, and toasted brown bread; with light vanilla, smoke, dark fruit, herbal, and roast/toasted earthiness. Light herbal hop and roasted coffee bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of nutty coffee, milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, brown sugar, toasted brown bread, light vanilla/smoke, and roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of coffee and dark/roast/bready malt flavors; with a great roasted bitter/sweet balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Lightly drying from roast/hop bitterness as well. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/grainy, and lightly chalky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. A touch thin, but nice considering the ABV. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5.2%. Overall this is a very nice coffee stout! All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of coffee and dark/roast/bready malt flavors; very smooth and easy to drink. Very flavorful for the session ABV; tons of great nutty/fruity coffee and malt complexity. A very enjoyable offering.