Cosmic Ristretto
Green Flash Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Baltic Regular|
Score
7.52
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Live long and drink Cosmic Ristretto. This highly revered brew will go down in history as one of the first graduates of our Genius Lab program into our front line. Marvel at its rich black appearance with bruleed edges and mocha-colored beer foam. Breathe in its coffee aroma and sweet malts, and savor its smooth, espresso, chocolate flavor. Don’t fight its gravitational pull. This bold, complex, java-centric Baltic Porter with Espresso is irresistible. Houston, we have a problem, my glass is empty.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 4
Overall 7.5
Refrigerated 0.5 L brown bottle poured into a snifter. Dark brow with big medium brown highlights and very small off-white head. Aroma is coffee, medium body, lower carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is big coffee and dark malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Aug 2016
at 20:02
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at home. Dark brown with a tall tan head with decent retention. Notes of roasted malts, espresso, roasted coffee beans, chocolate, caramel, bitter hops, licorice and cherries. Bitter-sweet, medium bodied, medium to low carbonation and a chocolate-coffee roasted finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of Cosmic Ristretto Baltic Porter on 07 Aug 2016 at 16:42 - Score: 8
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Aug 2016
at 09:33
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Totally black and oily. Really nice oily and acidic espresso aroma. Really good coffee flavor throughout. Slightly sweet with a Ro chocolate. Thin body but really coats the tongue. Unique.
Tried
on 22 Jul 2016
at 23:33
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
22 ounce bottle into snifter, best before 8/25/2016. Pours nearly opaque dark brown/black color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy tan head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of big nutty dark roasted coffee, dark chocolate, cocoa, caramel, brown sugar, and toasted dark bread; with lighter notes of raisin, plum, currant, vanilla, smoke, char, herbal, wood, and roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt, coffee, and light-moderate fruity yeast/earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big nutty dark roasted coffee, dark chocolate, cocoa, caramel, brown sugar, and toasted dark bread; with lighter notes of raisin, plum, currant, vanilla, smoke, char, herbal, wood, and roast/toasted earthiness. Moderate roast and herbal hop bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of coffee, dark chocolate, cocoa, caramel, brown sugar, toasted dark bread, herbal, wood, and roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, coffee, and light-moderate fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; with a great roast/hop bitter/sweet balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Light dryness from hop/roast bitterness as well. Medium carbonation and medium-full body; with a very smooth, creamy, and fairly sticky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is an outstanding Baltic porter! All around awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, coffee, and light-moderate fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink for the ABV. A highly enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jul 2016
at 21:22
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft - pours black tan head - nose/taste of coffee, light roast and light pine - medium body
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Jul 2016
at 19:56
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Blackish beer with a tan head. Coffee and roast aroma. Caramel and coffee flavor. Medium bodied. Caramel and coffee linger with light mineral notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jul 2016
at 12:52
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft - Nice dark espresso. Jet black with a small beige head. Dark espresso and a big bitterness. Just like cold pressed espresso.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Jul 2016
at 21:15
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8
On tap at The Urban Tap. Pours black with beige head that lasts. The aroma is coffee and milk chocolate. Medium body, roast, cocoa, light bitterness, good.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Jul 2016
at 21:13
6/10
Tried
on 15 Jul 2016
at 21:08
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours a dark, cola black, with minimal head. Aroma has some chocolate, some coffee, a touch of cinnamon. Flavor has chocolate, coffee, some creamy chocolate milk. Pretty good.
Tried
on 11 Jul 2016
at 16:04