Cimmerian Sea
Shared in Maplewood, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Side Project BrewingStout Rotating Out of Production
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Score
7.13
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Brewed for balance between richness, sweetness, roast, dryness, bitterness, with a tad tilt towards richness and sweetness. Smooth chocolate notes up front, then cut through and wrapped up nicely with a pallet cleansing dry hoppy finish.
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Bytemesis (16229) reviewed Cimmerian Sea from Shared 6 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can thanks to Peter! Pours opaque black with a medium creamy tan head that leaves lots of residual and lacing. Aroma is roasty, baking cocoa, hints of dust, ash. Flavor is light plus sweet and light plus bitter, heavy roast, but not burnt. Medium plus body. Rich.
djd07 (28882) reviewed Cimmerian Sea from Shared 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can thanks to John. Pours a dark brown with small beige head that lasts. The aroma is licorice and toasted malt. Slick body, roasted malt, licorice, bitter finish, very good.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Cimmerian Sea from Shared 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Canned 12/5, drunk 12/31/18.
Pours an ebony, undetermined clarity with a small, tan head showing moderate-to-low retention.
Nose is strong licorice, fruity coffee roast, heavy roasted barley with ash, prune, vanilla and bitter cacao. Almost smells like this is the adjunct version. But it's clean, attenuated and shows no alcohol. Quite aromatic and big for its relatively small size.
In the mouth it's very flavorful for just 5.6%. Big roast, ash, dark chocolate and vanilla gives all of the flavor of an imperial stout with an almost syrupy, lightly-to-moderately sweet body propelled on by tight, low carbonation. Lots of nuttiness, roasted barley character, cacao-like notes, raisins and prunes with light fudge and sweet chocolate helping to balance. No alcohol, no flaw. A kiss of pine/grapefruit from the hops and lots of classic stout flavors linger. Very solid, good execution and a ton of flavor packed into it without excessive sweetness.