Stranger Than Coffee & Maple Syrup
Collective Arts Brewing in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Porter Special|
Score
7.27
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
16oz (thx, Ryan!) @ Matt's house. Appearance: brown with a beige head. Aroma: pretty pleasant mix of coffee and maple with fruity notes, moderately sweet. Taste: along the same lines, smooth, pretty good body for the 5.5%. Finishes with some roasted malt bitterness. Overall: pretty good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Poured from 473mL can (thanks Nico; pkg Sep 28, 2023). Very dark brown with small beige head. Tons of dark maple syrup, coffee in the background. Very much a novelty beer, but it's tasty.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
473mL can, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma is awkward, with a strange mix of maple syrup and earthy coffee, without the depth to carry it seemingly. Flavour is more reasonably integrated, with gentle maple syrup upfront that combines alright with the coffee. Smooth, but not terrible robust even for a porter. It's alright.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6
16 oz can from Total Wine - Daytona. Pours a very dark brown color with a large beige head and excellent retention. Very good lacing too. Immediate aroma of dark coffee. The taste follows the nose: Coffee-forward flavor with no sign of the supposed maple flavor. It is a little sweeter than a typical coffee porter, but any would-be maple flavor is all but lost. I'm not a coffee fan, but this is smooth and clean and just sweet enough to work. Medium+ body. Creamy mouthfeel. Low carbonation and low bitterness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
473ml can. Pours an opaque black with a small, creamy, short lived, tan head that laces. Sweet aroma of roasted malt, coffee, maple syrup, dark chocolate and earth. Sweet flavour of roasted malt, maple syrup, caramel, dark chocolate and coffee in a dry, mild bitter finish. Medium body with a sticky, oily texture and average carbonation. A little sweet, but would make a great dessert beer.
A deep dark porter with a thin brown head. In aroma, sweet fruity chocolate malt with dark coffee, maple butter, very nice. In mouth, a nice sweet chocolate malt with dark coffee, maple toffee, alcohol warmth, very nice. On tap Wellington Gastropub.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draft at Epcot: Poured a deep black brown with a khaki head. Aroma is super bourbon and maple syrup, rich malts, coffee. Taste is rich roasted malts, maple, strong coffee, toffee, boozy.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
473 ml can. Pours a dark brown with moderate tannish head. Aromas of sweet nutty chocolate, a bit of maple and a bit of black coffee with additional soft roasted malts. Flavors of thin maple syrup and black coffee with more soft roasted malts. The base beer really needs to be bigger to to do the maple and coffee just, but overall OK
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Can: Poured a black color stout with a large brown foamy head with good retention and some lacing Aroma of roasted matl with light chocolate and strong maple notes. Taste is also a mix of semi-sweet roasted amt and chocolate notes with some faint coffee notes and a strong maple finish. Body is light with good carbonation. Not bad and drinks quite well.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Slightly hazy, brown colour with ruby-copper highlights. The head is big, frothy, lightly creamy, lightly beige with good retention and webby lacing. Sweet nose of maple syrup, chocolate malts and a touch of coffee. The mouthfeel is slick and oily. A tad dryness come in the end. The coffee is mild in the taste as well with the maple notes being there, but the chocolate malts balancing things. Not a bad twist on their regular Stranger Than Fiction Porter.