Cement Shoe: Hazelnut Java
The Hideout Brewing Company in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
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Score
7.06
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This stout is rich in flavor, with a complex, roasty yet lightly chocolate flavor, complemented by the lightly sweet flavor of the hazelnut coffee, and pours with a thick, tan head
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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
22 ounce bottle into pint glass, bottled in 8/2016. Pours pitch black color with a 2 finger dense dark brown head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass. Aromas of big hazelnut coffee, milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, toasted dark bread, light vanilla/cream, herbal, and roasted earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt, hazelnut coffee, and light earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big hazelnut coffee, milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, toasted dark bread, light vanilla/cream, herbal, and roasted earthiness. Light herbal/roasted bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of hazelnut coffee, milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, toasted dark bread, light vanilla/cream, and herbal/roasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, hazelnut coffee, and light earthy hop flavors; with a great roasted bitter/sweet balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and medium-plus body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/silky, and lightly chalky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Minimal warming alcohol as expected of 6%. Overall this is a very nice English style coffee stout. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, hazelnut coffee, and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink. A very enjoyable offering.
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from Bottle
on 08 Sep 2016
at 21:27