Stormtrooper Shadow Stout

Shadow Stout

 

Stormtrooper in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Brewed at/by: Vocation Brewery
  Stout - Dry Regular
Score
6.96
ABV: 6.6% IBU: - Ticks: 28
A little stout for a 'Trooper... ? Not a bit of it. This robust, strong, rich and aromatic beer is velvet black in colour with vanilla and coffee notes, from the unique blend of carefully roasted malts. Resulting in a smooth and creamy chocolate flavour, together with a satisfyingly bittersweet aftertaste.

A deliciously menacing ale from the darkside.
 

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7.2/10
Very nice light clean stout. Wonderfully to style. Highly drinkable, right between dry and robustly round. Bier konig ams
Tried on 25 Jul 2022 at 22:41

7.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Can as birthday gift. Jet black with a dark brown head. Aroma and taste are roasted malty and chocolate bitter. Smooth body.
Tried from Can on 10 Jul 2022 at 14:24

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Draft. A black beer with a dark brown head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt, coffee, and bread. The flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt, coffee, and bread, leading to a dry finish.
Tried from Draft on 04 Jul 2022 at 15:46

7.5/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 8 Flavor 7.5 Texture 8 Overall 7
The dry stout in this series of canned Stormtrooper beers, handily bypassing Lucasfilm’s intellectual property rights by avoiding all references to actual Star Wars and allegedly making use of the rights to the original Stormtrooper design outside of Lucasfilm. I love everything Star Wars (and a good stout) so bring it on – thanks Craftmember! Thickly moussy, frothy, pale mocha-tinged beige, largely stable head on a black beer with thin copper-ruddy edge. Aroma of coffee grounds, burnt toast, dry leather, haemoglobin-like iron, black peppercorns, cigar tobacco, dried prunes, dried thyme, very faint liquorish perhaps. Dry onset, very mild umami touch and bittersweet notes of burnt blackcurrants, medium carb, supple mouthfeel; hard-caramelly core, remaining restrained in sweetness, bitterness coming into power when toasted bread and roasted chicory effects sets in – making for a long, coffeeish, roasted bitter finish, matching with spicy and leafy hops. Straightforward, old school dry stout the Irish way, no frills or luxurious extras added here: this is stout from the 20th century and I love it, basic as it may be. Could be a perfect introduction to the dry stout genre.
Tried on 29 Mar 2022 at 12:08

6.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 7
Can. Pours opaque black with large brown head. Aroma is rotated malt, prunes, soy sauce, coconut and ground coffee. Taste of medium sweet, faint bitter and faint salty. Body is watery with light carbonation. Finish is medium long and mostly sweet with notes of rotated malt, white sugar, coffee, dark chocolate, soy sauce and rotated coconut.
Tried from Can on 15 Feb 2022 at 21:15

6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 8 Overall 7
Dark brown with a creamy, beige head. Aroma of charred grains, coffee grounds, chocolate. Taste is roasted bitter with increasing sourness at the finish. Medium-bodied, mild carbonation, stays dry throughout. Decent and drinkable, but the bitter/sour finish lacks something in likeability
Tried on 12 Jan 2022 at 17:53

6.6/10
Nice can art. Middle of the road dry stout. LCI
Tried from Can on 11 Dec 2021 at 10:32

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Can picked up from Saveur-Biere webshop, nr Lille, France and consumed at home Wednesday 26th May 2021 we had Mushroom Risotto for tea tonight. Listening to Marc Riley on 6Music. Pours black with a light beige head. Some vanilla and coffee on the nose and a little milkiness. Smooth, rich, soft and creamy in the mouth with chocolate the dominant flavour, a tiny bit thin, watery coffee, rich toasted malts, quite good.
Tried from Can on 27 May 2021 at 01:38

8/10
Tried from Can on 14 May 2021 at 19:36