Mercury Fountain
Bereta Brewing Co. in Giarmata, Vest Banat, Romania 🇷🇴
Collab with: DealbreakerStout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular
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Score
6.92
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Combining two of our absolute favourite things in brewing, thick double mashed imperial stouts and vibrant American hops, Mercury Fountain is a keeper not to miss out.
The agressive hop cocktail of Citra, Sabro, Chinook and Simcoe leads the main aroma notes, whilst the taste has a chewy toffee, chocolate and nougat core layered with citric hop resins; and all these are rounded by a touch of coconut flakes we added to the boil.
Mercury Fountain is an enigmatic experience, a play with our senses, liquid salvation poured in a glass, a true beast and we are super proud to have it unleashed finally.
The agressive hop cocktail of Citra, Sabro, Chinook and Simcoe leads the main aroma notes, whilst the taste has a chewy toffee, chocolate and nougat core layered with citric hop resins; and all these are rounded by a touch of coconut flakes we added to the boil.
Mercury Fountain is an enigmatic experience, a play with our senses, liquid salvation poured in a glass, a true beast and we are super proud to have it unleashed finally.
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8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7
Bottle shared az Dno Pytle. Pours jet black with a quickly dissipating off white head. Nose is light sweetness and huge hops, resinous, citric and there’s coconut as well. Taste is light sweetness upfront, but then it turns excessively bitter real quick, showing citric and resinous hoppy notes with that coconut thouch again, and also some spicy chedar. Closes with a long lasting, bitter finish, has light to medium body and soft carbo. As the guys already said before me this one’s actually a double black IPA, but I love those, so I have exactly no problem with it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2025
at 12:22
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle sample at a tasting at Lior's place. Thanks Odi. Dark brown. Alcohol, caramel, some roast, oxidation, soy sauce, a bit sweetish, umami and bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2022
at 19:47
5/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2021
at 15:40
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
0.33l bottle. Black body with a thin light brown head. Huge piny hop notes in the aroma with berries, chocolate, orange zest and lechee. The taste is sweeter and less hoppy than what I expected from the aroma. It shows notes of chocolate, caramel, grape seed, pine and raspberries. I agree with the fellow raters providing their oppinion before me that this is more a (double) BIPA than a RIS, but it's still nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Nov 2020
at 20:24
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle 330ml. @ home. 🏡
[ As Bereta / Dealbreaker Mercury Fountain ].
ABV: 9.5%. Cloudy dark black brown colour with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, dark malt, rye, chocolate, light to moderate hoppy, citrus, light resin. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, chocolate, roasted, rye, dark fruit, coconut - rye, fruity hops - citrus, light resin. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20201123]
7-4-7-4-15
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Nov 2020
at 07:30
7/10
Tried
on 23 Nov 2020
at 17:25
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle, huge thanks to midovark for sharing! Very dark brown body, almost no head. Tropical and citric notes, huge hoppiness over some coffee-like malty touches. The hoppiness rules the taste too, initially citric, lightly detergent-like, with the Sabro coconut coming up more as it warms, light coffee touches, vaguely tart. A bit sticky, warming, nice but not a wow. Basically a double black IPA really.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2020
at 13:27
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
330ml bottle. Pours black with a small tan head, a few coconut flakes floating around. Aroma is very hoppy, grapefruit peel, a bit of coconut and chocolate. Taste is very hoppy just like the aroma, bitter citrus peel, grapefruit, coconut, dark chocolate, resinous, finish is bitter and a tad harsh. Medium bodied. This is stupidly hoppy... Dry-hopped stout is surely a synonym for Black IPA. Nice experiment though and enjoyable for what it is, perhaps needs a few tweaks.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 May 2020
at 22:00