Atmospheric Black Metal
Separatist Beer Project in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.15
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8
My first beer from this Pennsylvanian craft brewery, bottle from De Caigny shared with Goedele and Johan. Had this under its previous name Sole Atmospheric Black Metal but the brand name has changed to Separatist apparently now; I do, however, assume that this beer and its recipe has remained unchanged so put my rating here. Loosely knit, pale brownish-tinged beige, thinnish head, quickly dissolving into almost nothing, over a black beer with hazy mahogany-brown edges. Aroma of chocolate liqueur, kahlua, walnut oil, whisky, hot chocolate sauce, elderberry syrup, damp earth, pipe tobacco, granola, whisky, glue and a vague, fortunately very volatile manure-like note. Sweetish candied fig and dried prunes in the onset with a blackberry-ish sourish note, finely tingling carb, full and oily mouthfeel yet perhaps not quite as full as I normally expect from a 10% ABV stout. Pleasantly nutty, toffeeish and bitter black chocolatey body though, with bittering toasty and clearly cocoa-delivered edges that in the end are accentuated by a relatively sharp, heating booziness, wodka-like almost with a solventy edge – a bit too much for me personally. The overall flavour composition, however, remains agreeable and typical for a modern American style ‘impy’, with roasted coffeeish and black chocolatey flavours lingering as well as a spicy hop bitter kick in the tail. Decent enough but not quite a the level of the great legends in this deeply ‘Americanized’ style.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bomber shared. Honestly got this just for the name. Black to brown, little head. Nose is dark fruit, cacao, BE quad, thin for the style more of an okay Quad, BE, dark fruit, chocolate some soy sauce than a coffee & nibs RIS, fair BE dark fruits, soy sauce, poor for RIS but fair as a beer in general.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
From tap. Pours pitch black, small brown head. Aroma is roasted dark malty. Roasted dark malty. Chocolate. Sweet and roasted malt. Lingering roasted and dark malty finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
65 cl bottle @ olio
Aroma is somewhat musty with wheat and English hops. Flavour has English hops and licorice. Too English for me.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
660ml bottle. Pours pitch black with a smooth light brown head. Aroma of roasty malts, cocoa, vanilla, syrup and toffee. Taste is smooth, slightly roasty and sweetish with some cocoa, chocolate, vanilla and syrup. Finish is stuffy, syrupy, sweetish and slightly roasty with some vanilla, cocoa and toffee. A bit stuffy and sweetish with loads of cocoa.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle, 10%. Black with tiny beige head. Aroma is roasted malt, chocolate, caramel, liquorice, salt liquorice and cocoa. Flavour is roasted malts, chocolate, caramel, little coffee, cocoa, sweet, liquorice and medium bitter.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Mekelberg's Brooklyn tap: pours black with a beige head. Aroma is chocolate, cake, light spice. Taste is mostly moderately sweet with relatively low bitterness. Very drinkable with a minimal alcohol burn. Solid.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle - pours black tan head - nose and taste of chocolate roast and something I can only describe as burnt rice - medium body
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Sampled on draft at Tapped this beer poured a black color with a medium sized foamy dark brown head that left good lacing. The aroma was bitter with dark fruit, cocoa, cookie dough and anise. The flavor was biter with strong anise, toasty and roasty malts, floral hops and cocoa powder. Long finish. Full, thick and creamy body. Very nice.