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Sante Adairius Rustic Ales in Capitola, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.11
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pitch black. No head. No nose really. Hint of oak and walnuts. Taste is pretty bland. Chocolate and pine, nutty with mild bitterness oatmeal stout mouthfeel
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Tap. Pours opaque black with a medium creamy Tamm head that dissipates leaving nice lacing. Aroma is roasty, chocolate, coffee, bit of ashtray. Flavor is the same, roasty with baking chocolate notes, plus some cigarette. Lightly sweet, light bitter. Medium plus body, creamy. Lingering finish of semi sweet chocolate. Pretty darn good for a simple stout
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
On tap at the brewery. Aroma is very roast forward with a nice coffee note. As it warms a nice chocolate note becomes more noticeable. Nice wheat character compliments and smooths the edges of the roast. Pours a dark brown, but not quite black with a moderately sized dark tan head of moderate thickness. Good head retention, slowly receding to the edges where it lingers along with a thin film on top. Moderate lacing and faint legs. Flavor is similar to the aroma, but the roast is much less prevalent and is instead more of a background and mid palate note. Lots of nice wheat character and nice chocolate notes. Mouthfeel is medium bodied and very creamy with medium carbonation. Low astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall a very enjoyable stout that shows how wheat can smooth out roast character. Nice chocolate character as it warms.