The Garden Brewery Tama

Tama

 

The Garden Brewery in Zagreb, City of Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷

  Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular
Score
7.43
ABV: 8.1% IBU: 40 Ticks: 63
Imperial Salted Caramel & Chocolate Biscuit Stout.

Rich, sweet and indulgent on a milk stout biscuit base.

Hops: Columbus
Malts: Best Ale, Cara, Dark Crystal, DRC, Munich, Chocolate, Black, Rolled Oats, Golden Naked Oats.
Yeast: AY4
Adjuncts: Lactose, Cacao, Biscuit Flavour, Sea Salt
SRM: 60
23.2°

Tasting notes:
Deep layers of rich caramel, chocolate, and biscuit aromas combine with a full bodied salted imperial milk stout.
 

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7.9/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 8.5 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
A beer from Zagreb, which holds a bit of mystery for me being in one of two European countries that I've visited, but have never got to its capital yet. The other is Finland. Black with no head, its strength very well hidden behind the lightly salted and flavoursome caramels and chocolate. Aroma similar but slightly less stated, texture is thick but smooth and has a good mouthfeel.
Tried from Can from Asda Supermarket (Various locations) on 24 Jul 2025 at 21:55

6.9/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Can at home picked up from ASDA. A jet black coloured pour with a fading mid tan head. Aroma is semi sweet, salted caramel, sticky toffee, salted liquorice, Palate is medium sweet, sticky, salty, moderate carbonation. Flavour is composed of medium sweet, salted caramel, brown sugars, cakey, brownie batter, liquorice, Decent pastry.
Tried from Can on 06 Jun 2025 at 22:12

7.3/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
440ml can from Asda. Nice black pour but a brief tanned fizzy head. Aroma of chocolate biscuit and the salted caramel - quite rich and fairly sweet with a light Neapolitan creaminess. Taste follows the same path with a moderate but building bitterness in the finish to offset the sweetness. Medium to full bodied.

I can see that a lot of different malts were used but the adjuncts dominate any malt complexity except for a general flavour of richness. Good stuff but not next level for an imperial stout.
Tried from Can from Asda Supermarket (Various locations) on 29 May 2025 at 00:59

8/10
Chocolate, caramel, biscuits
Tried from Can on 30 Dec 2024 at 22:31

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Almost black. Aroma is toffee vanilla cocoa light rice, very deep and rich. Taste is sweet toffee with some lactose and a hint of booze and light bitterness. Quite creamy dense body with almost too much sweetness but still fine. Rich and soothing.
Tried on 19 Nov 2024 at 22:05

9/10
Tried from Draft at BrewDog Brussels on 02 Sep 2024 at 14:26

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Dark brown color with medium beige head. Aroma: creamy, shit loads of lactose, biscuit, toffee, coffee. Taste: creamy, dark chocolate, dark roast coffee, burnt caramel, walnut waffers coated in dark chocolate. Full bodied, low to moderate carbonation, moderate bitterness. Ok, ABV well integrated, creamy and smooth, bit too much of roasted character.
Tried on 09 Jul 2024 at 21:11

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 10 Overall 8.5
Black pour with a small tan head. Aromas of malt, milk/lactose, biscuit, toffee, salted caramel, some peanut. Taste is pretty similar - very nice.
Tried on 22 Jun 2024 at 19:12

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6
Svart. Lysebrunt filmskum. Aroma av sjokoladekake. Myk munnfølelse. Smaken kakao. Tørr avsluning. Gjennomgående krydderpreg.
Tried on 25 Apr 2024 at 15:35

7/10
Lata @Glam Bar - Beer & More, Dubrovnik. 24/04/2024. Color negro opaco corona de espuma blanca aromas y sabores caramelo, cacao, dulce, lactosa, cuerpo medio.
Tried on 24 Apr 2024 at 13:20