Sea Monster (8% ABV)
Ballast Point Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Oatmeal Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.35
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**Admin Note: This is for the 8% imperial stout version of Sea Monster brewed from 2006 - 2010. For newer rataings use the 10% abv entry.
From the deep dark depths of our Brewmaster’s imagination comes this rich and monstrous oatmeal stout. Our Sea Monster embodies all that the true dark beer aficionado will appreciate: roasted coffee notes, with hints of bittersweet chocolate and currant flavors all brought together by a perfect hop balance.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
super black pour, thick brown head. The aroma is very bigon rasted malt, with some coffee notes, and lots of some hops. The flavour is roasty, and slightly nutty, with some subtle hops. Nice full mouthfeel, just a superb stout, excellent.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:01
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle @ LCRBM 2008. Coffee, salt and licorice in the aroma. Malty, laurel, licorice, roast and salt in the flavor. Salty roasty aftertaste. Very good!
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2019
at 12:07
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught at All In Beer Fest 2018 cons 2018-11-02 Göteborg - Limited edition, vintage 2009, ABV 01 %. AR: roasted malt, coffee, odd AP: dark brown, wee sand brown head F: odd lalvor, roasted malt, coffee
Tried
on 03 Nov 2018
at 01:21
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Oatmeal stout from this renowned American craft brewery, apparently replaced by Sea Monster Imperial Stout now. Tasted in 2010. Thinnish, light beige, mousse-like foam on a near-black beer with reddish brown hue. Appealing aroma of coffee, candied dates, bitter chocolate, old port wine, pear and cacao, taste a dark fruitiness and chocolatey maltiness, some caramel, sweetish with an oily, tender moutfheel, quickly evolving in a roasted bitterness that lasts for the rest of the palate.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Jul 2014
at 12:06
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Draft. From notes. Chocolate and coffee with some dark fermented fruits. Pretty good.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Sep 2013
at 19:38
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Malzig-dunkler und prickelnder Antrunk, minimal bitter. Hier noch leicht schokoladig, zum Abgang wird dies sprunghaft intensiver. Etwas herb, mittel-aromatisch. Füllend malziger Abgang. 11/9/8/9/9/9
Tried
on 02 Jun 2011
at 11:32
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft. A dark brown beer with a lazing brown head. The aroma has notes of sweet malt and caramel, while the flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, and roasted malt, lending it a bit of acidity, as well as light notes of alcohol.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Jun 2009
at 04:44
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle, at LCRBM 2008, ’s Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Black body with a brown head. Strong aroma of deep malts with some spicy complexity. Great, robust aroma. Moderately sweet, lightly bitter flavour. Heavily carbonated. Good balance. Strong malty mouthfeel with a good complexity to make it interesting, but it is not overwhelming by complexity. Steady beer.
Black body with a brown head. Strong aroma of deep malts with some spicy complexity. Great, robust aroma. Moderately sweet, lightly bitter flavour. Heavily carbonated. Good balance. Strong malty mouthfeel with a good complexity to make it interesting, but it is not overwhelming by complexity. Steady beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Mar 2009
at 03:30
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 66cl. @ LCRBM 2008, ’s-Hertogenbosch, NetherlandsClear dark black color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light brown head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, burnt, dry coffee. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long to average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20081025]
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Mar 2009
at 08:24
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
courtesy of retorp. Pours pitch black with golden/beige head. Aroma of caramel malts with faint hops. Taste, malty and spicy with notes of hops. Light roasted malts coffee with chocolate and cocoa powder for a light bitter palate and finish. Caramel lingers for a nice sugary mouthfeel.
Tried
on 22 Feb 2009
at 12:21