Homewood Reserve (- 2013)
East End Brewing Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
Stout Regular|
Score
6.80
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Sampled from a 2008 bottle at the 2010 March Metro Detroit tasting. Poured near black with a medium nut brown head. Aroma had notes of smoke as well as roasted malts, slight hint of bourbon. Flavor began smokey and salty and became full of roasted malts.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
2009 gusher thanks to bu11zeye. Pours with a huge, deep brown head over a near black body. Aroma of brown sugar, toffee, bitter chocolate, coffee and oak. Taste is dry with some bitter cocoa, bitterness, and a touch of sourness. Chalky. Lively carbonation.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Homewood reserve batch 2009. Well, I’m glad this aint no impy stout, I was under the impression that it was. Big brown flip top bottle, must be at least a quart+. Nice roasty stout aroma, comes across as very enticing. Big black pour that I think is staining my big clear beer mug. Creamy thin choco moose head. First taste I think its going to be too impy bitter but it never quite gets there. Burned charcoal taste permiates this brew but it is not overwhelming. I think this stuff may be milder than the black strap, if that is possible. I’m not sure what oak barrels have to do with the taste but it is ceratinly different than the black strap. Not much carbonation on the tongue but you can sure tell there is a fizzy creaminess down the throat. Overall an impressively dark beer that is much heavier than most stouts but much more well behaved and enjoyable compared to impy stouts. Good session. Hope this brown stain comes outta my glass, wew.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
@Jimmacks pre BeerWars Gathering-33.8oz bottle–pours a brown head and black color. Aroma is chocolate/molasses, dark malt, ashy. Taste is chocolate/molasses, dark malt, ashy. lots pf earthy hops. Thanks to rciesla.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
FRO throwdown: Grass and caramel nose. Flavor and mouthfeel was very light, almost watery thinned out finish. Notes of coffee, chocolate and maybe wood are in there
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Sample at O-town throwdown ’09 2008 bottle. Pours black with mocha head, nice golden lacing. Aroma of light malts and chocolate, oak. Taste chocolate malts with notes of coffee, light wood and bourbon was hardly noticeable.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Thanks to sirpsycho for this - I shared this with a bunch of people, and opinion was quite divided, but I loved this stuff - pours black, with a thick, frothy tan lace - aroma of roast, very light oak, and some very subtle smoke - very creamy mouthfeel, medium body - moderate carbonation - the oak and bourbon is very subtle, adding a nice oaky complexity that lends itself well to the roastiness of the base beer - quite dry, with a bit of vanilla and espresso on the back end - very restrained for a bourbon-aged beer, and quite tasty because of it.