7

Pours a deep dark brown beige head from bottle. Coconut and frosting aroma. Mild moutfeel. Sour cherries too.

7.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Deep, dark, and thick with a small tan head. Aroma is mostly chocolate and coconut. Taste is mostly chocolate with hints of coconut. Nice dessert beer.

6.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

So I'm always bitching about pastry stouts, but in reality I rarely drink them - but then there's a reason for that, they taste neat for the first sip or 2 but then it becomes a chore to drink a whole serving. But I've been hop fatigued for awhile and on the lookout for something different, something maltier, and so when I saw the 4 pack of these, I said I wouldn't mind that as a Christmas gift and so it was that I opened this for Christmas and its 1pm and I've got the roast beast on the grill and figured why not start one of these. So this is the one I picked first. The nose was surprisingly neutral, and seemed to show some citrus hop which i thought was weird. It really doesn't smell like much at all. There is the vaguest hint of chocolate macaroon in the nose. Coconut flavors come through stronger in the flavor though. Its actually not overtly sweet, more on the semi-sweet side, which I'm grateful for and which makes it more drinkable. That plus the ABV is manageable, not obscene. Chocolate flavors seem quite restrained. Very little bitterness at the finish, but it might be covered up with a lingering dark chocolate bitterness. I feel like other breweries have succeeding better at layering these sorts of flavors in the beer, but it also seems to me that WW is not exactly setting the world on fire with their their beers - in fact while I was curious about the pastry stout mix pack, I was skeptical because of who made it, and I'm feeling like the rest of these are going to be solidly mediocre, as that's what this one is. Overall impression - the flavors are there just not clear and featured as they could be, its moderately drinkable because of the reduced sweetness and modest ABV - so it's not complex, but then not very interesting either.

8

Dark black body medium creamy tan head. Roast chocolate coconut aroma. Coconut toffee chocolate flavor. Medium body moderately low carbonation. 8/5/8/4/16 4.1

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Can

7.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Can from their little desert brew 4 pack. Dark black pour and not all that much head. Nose is coconut and fudge. Tastes like a German chocolate cake my girls and I had last week with the layers of candies coconut, rich dark chocolate, some black licorice, earth and coffee. Smooth slick palate. Booze

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

From a 12 oz can. Pouts black with a tan head. Aromas of chocolate and coconut. Flavors are sweet cocoa and bitter baker’s chocolate. Overall pretty satisfying.

7.9

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

Can (7/17/20) from the Guilty Pleasures 4-pack from Total Wine & More, Burlington. Appearance is opaque black (mahogany-dark brown at the bottom of the glass) with nice sparkle at the edges of the glass, 2-finger width light brown foamy head with good retention and nice soapy lacing. Aroma is strong sweet coconut, milder chocolate. Taste is more moderate coconut than the aroma so in better balance with the chocolate. Very mild roast. Mouthfeel is medium side of light-to-medium bodied with silky, creamy, then frothy texture, soft carbonation, pleasant alcohol warmth and finish as taste. Overall, they got what they were going for but it's hard to get much of a base stout here. A nice dessert beer with exceptional look and feel.