Black's Dawn
Cismontane Brewing in Santa Ana, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.23
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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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7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle thanks to C-dogg. It pours darkest brown with a small tan head. The nose is rich chocolate, cocoa, roasted malt, caramel, fudge, vanilla and juicy coconut. The taste is roasted malt, toast ash, earth, coffee, chocolate, spice, caramel, treacle and fudge. Medium body, moderate carbonation and viscous mouth-feel. Pretty solid stuff all-round.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jan 2014
at 04:54
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
16th January 2013
Tasting at the pad of the ever gracious Bruce. Opaque brown beer, good tan head. Palate is smooth with mild carbonation. Smooth dark malt, light touches of malt cream and dark chocolate. Nice generic darkish fruits underneath. Smooth finish. Well joined up and tasty.
Tasting at the pad of the ever gracious Bruce. Opaque brown beer, good tan head. Palate is smooth with mild carbonation. Smooth dark malt, light touches of malt cream and dark chocolate. Nice generic darkish fruits underneath. Smooth finish. Well joined up and tasty.
Tried
on 17 Jan 2014
at 01:38
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle shared in London - many thanks to C-Dog. Pours oily black with a creamy beige head. Rich chocolate on the nose with burnt marshmallows and burnt wood. Medium sweet flavor with lots of charred malts, dirt, rich chocolate, dark fruits. Medium to full bodied with fine carbonation. Warming finish with further rich, complex chocolate character, decent roast, charred wood. Good stuff. Nice creamy, dark chocolate. Delicious.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jan 2014
at 11:35
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Sour lactic, coffee, and chocolate aroma. Black with a small tan head. Roasty coffee, lactic chocolate, earthy oat flavor., Full body, soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Oct 2013
at 18:26
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Earthy lactic chocolate malt and hay aroma. Black with small head. Smooth sweet milk, dark chocolate, and moderately bitter coffee ground/hay flavor.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Oct 2013
at 16:27
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 8
Pours black with a heavy-looking, brown head. Smoky chocolate and coffee aroma. Coffee, licorice, cream flavor. A little ash, lively carbonation. Roasty, earthy bitter. Very smooth....Very nice.
Tried
on 12 Sep 2013
at 16:41
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
from a bottle it pours dark brown with a slight head. The aroma is of coffee and the taste is of coffee with bitter overtones that lingers on the palate
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Sep 2013
at 18:26
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
From a 50 cl bottle shared in Avon, NC. Pours black with a tan head. Aroma of coffee and roasted nuts. Flavors of coffee, licorice and a hint of chocolate. Light to moderate carbonation. Slightly bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Sep 2013
at 18:19
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Jet black body with 95% opacity and a very nice light brown head, about a centimetre tall. Aroma of coffee, roasted malt, vanilla, oak, tons of alcohol, milk and tons of sugars. Full-bodied; Strong assertive roasted malt flavours with anise and a lot of licorice notes tucked in with some lighter coffee flavours, a hint of super dark cacao and a fake sugar, aspartame-y type flavour. Aftertaste shows some odd sweetness with a kick of alcohol and anise and that bad fake sugar flavour. Overall, a decent Imperial Stout that was well intentioned, but just not executed properly - a bit too much anise and that fake sugar flavour that just persists. I sampled this 50 cL bottle purchased from Super Jr. Market in San Diego, California on 06-May-2012 for US$5.99 sampled at home in Washington on 14-March-2013.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Mar 2013
at 21:07
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
bottle at home ... black .. bubbly tan head ... soft coffe roast ... soft sweet roast ... soft mellow raost ... light bitter chocolate ... 3.5 bottle at home .. deep balckk.. thin tan head .. soft fruit ...d ark roast ... dfark malts ... rich chocolate malts ... dark spice roast ... dark dark hrave coffee malt roast ..3.8
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2013
at 15:10