Cismontane Brewing Black's Dawn

Black's Dawn

 

Cismontane Brewing in Santa Ana, California, United States 🇺🇸

  Stout - Imperial Regular
Score
7.23
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 50 Ticks: 60
A heavy strong stout brewed with coffee, brown sugar and oats. With its powerful quality and morning ingredients it seems parallel to a solid dawn session at Blacks. An inside connection to boutique roasted fare trade beans we were granted the opportunity to make this exceptional brew.
 

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6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle from Beergium. Aroma is dark fruits, coffee, mocha, roasted malt, chocolate, caramel, brown sugar, touch of vanilla, berries, charred wood. Flavour is above moderate sweet and bitter with a hint of sour. Body is medium. Curious one, lots of coffee and berries/fruits, unexpected note of sour, bit rough, complex or flawed? I’m not sure to be honest. Anyway, interesting to say the least, good coffee.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Feb 2025 at 04:48


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle pour, picked up at Stogies and Hops. Cool to find a couple bottles from these guys, amd try what will likely be the final beers I have from them. Enjoyed my visits to the brewery, amd sad to see you go. Dense black pour. Big toasty nose with some coffee notes, amd soft brown sugar like sweetness. Smooth drinking imperial, though it does have a more bitter coffee note. Touches of vanilla / oats round out the body. Bold malt flavors linger. Solid imperial stout all around.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Apr 2023 at 05:45


7

A deep dark stout with a thin light mocha head. In aroma, sweet chocolate malt with dark fruits, light peated notes, alcohol warmth, very nice. In mouth, a nice sweet chocolate malt with dark fruits, licorice, alcohol warmth, very nice.

Tried on 17 Oct 2020 at 01:01


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

7/3/2020. Bottle at my Birthday bottle share, bought at Grumpy Goat, Reading. Pours almost black with a small bubbly beige head. Aroma of coffee, bitter dark chocolate, toffee and dark and dried fruits. Moderate sweetness and moderate roasted bitterness. Full bodied, slick texture, average to soft carbonation. Enjoyed this.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Mar 2020 at 21:25


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Thuis uit een flesje. Mooi zwart, bruin schuim. Naast de koffie, in aroma en smaak, zit er ook iets bekends zurigs in beide. Kan het moeilijk plaatsen, maar doet denken aan chilipepers, lekker. Op de een of andere manier mis ik een beetje de warmte van een imperial stout. Evengoed een uitstekend bier.

Tried on 29 Mar 2019 at 17:29


6.8
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

0.355l bottle. Black body with a thin light brown head. Huge coffee aroma with notes of oatmeal, chocolate, smoke and even a bit of chilli (event though it's not listed among the ingredients). Taste of chocolate, coffee, floral hops and some paprika or bell pepper that is quite weird to be honest.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Sep 2018 at 19:36


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

355ml bottle. Pours jet black with a large head. Aroma is light roast, liquorice and a little coffee. Taste has roast and liquorice to start. Coffee and vanilla sponge cake finish.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Jul 2018 at 19:44


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle picked up from the Bottle Shop, Bermondsey, London. Consumed at home Saturday 28th July 2018 the company of Mum and Keith after a day out in London. Pours black with a head that rapidly departs. Plenty of coffee, smooth and with a little lactose. Goes well with a Ferrero Roche. A little bit of a dark fruity tang, this is a nice beer. A7 A4 T8 P4 Ov15 3.8

Tried from Bottle on 28 Jul 2018 at 20:09


8.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle. Black pour. Aroma of roasted fruity coffee, chocolate, roasted malt and vanilla, very nice. Taste has soft roasted coffee, cherry, sugar, vanilla, chocolate, bitter roasted malt and nice coffee acidity in the finish. Really good coffee ris. Nice surprise.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Jul 2018 at 22:10


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle from Beergium. Very dark brown beer with long lasting small beige head. Aroma has roast, coffee and some chocolate. Taste has sweet malts, coffee, chocolate, paper and some fug. Not my type of IS.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Nov 2017 at 13:40