Banana Chocolate Stout
Sankt Gallen Brewery in Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan 🇯🇵
Stout - Milk / Sweet Regular|
Score
6.72
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6
Sankt Galen’s 2019 Valentine’s beer is a Banana Chocolate Stout 7% Deep black with a thick long lasting rusty tan head of foam. The aroma has a sort of cinnamonspice to it with overripe banana in the finish as well as chocolate and lactose. Full bodied and smooth with a dark bitter chocolate/cacao paste flavors, some acrid roast character that makes me think there’s a hefty dose of black patent malt in here which is good as it’ll offset the sweetness of the lactose. Paired with the banana you got a vegetal character like I was licking the banana peel and the roast character disappeared but it didn’t settle well in my stomach so that pairing failed. The chocolate brought out the dark bitterness, it was a better match but still didn’t quite work. It’s a decent beer but you don’t get much banana in the taste. I was expecting it to be sickly sweet due to the lactose and banana so I was pleasantly surprised it was quite well balanced.
Tried
on 25 Jan 2023
at 10:58
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap at Oike Zest Festival. Jet black. Nose is rich chocolate and banana, almost like they used a weizen yeast. Flavor is rather sweet chocolate syrup and bananas, then turning quite roasty. Fun dessert beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Mar 2019
at 01:43
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Dark black brown pour, aroma is quite rich foam on the top, light brown. Nose has lots roast, ashy even, banana is coming out clearly as well. Burnt toast. Taste has also good banana character, roasted malts ashy and again, banana there as well. Chocolate and banana are mixing well, this beer's concept actually seems to work. Maybe a bit ashy, banana represented well.
Tried
on 16 Mar 2019
at 17:18