Confucius
Koch Pruulikoda in Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia 🇪🇪
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.58
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For Estonian Republics birthday in 2016 we came out with a special beer – ginger stout. This style is not easily found elsewhere. The beer name „Confucius“ derives from the ancient Chinese scholar, who spiced all his foods with ginger – that is said to ensure a long life.
Beer color is black with red flares with chocolaty foam layer. Aroma is a mixture of roasted malt, summer blueberries and slight cocoa flavours. Ginger aroma is noticeable, but still humble and mild.
There is a lightness to the beer, with roasted flavours on the dry-side and slight bitterness at first taste, but the palate will evolve into fruity juiceness in the end. A light smoky haze gives it a pleasant nuance – ginger being the finishing note.
Ingredients
Water, pale barley malts, aroma and bitter hops, beer yeast.
Beer color is black with red flares with chocolaty foam layer. Aroma is a mixture of roasted malt, summer blueberries and slight cocoa flavours. Ginger aroma is noticeable, but still humble and mild.
There is a lightness to the beer, with roasted flavours on the dry-side and slight bitterness at first taste, but the palate will evolve into fruity juiceness in the end. A light smoky haze gives it a pleasant nuance – ginger being the finishing note.
Ingredients
Water, pale barley malts, aroma and bitter hops, beer yeast.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
33cl bottle, thanks thong! Poured near black with a thin brown head. Aroma has roastedness, some ginger, chocolate. Ginger, roasted malt, licorice. Like the ginger here.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Oct 2016
at 04:47
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
33cl bottle from SuperAlko, Tallinn. Pours close to black with a huge, fast dissipating beige head. Rather nice roasty aromas, but can’t get much of the ginger. Some spicy notes are present too, and a hint of ginger reveals itself in the end. Medium to moderate sweet with roasty flavours and a light bitterness. Medium body with carbonation slightly on the fizzy side. Fairly pleasant in the end. --- Beer merged from original tick of Confucius on 28 Jun 2016 at 21:45 - Score: 5
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jun 2016
at 14:24
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from SuperAlko. Dark brown color, medium-sized brown head. Toasted malty, blueberry aroma. Medium-bodied. Toasted, blueberries, ginger in the flavor. Nice robust stout. Better than expected.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2016
at 04:53
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottled (thanks tbone!). Black colour, mediumsized brown head. Aroma is ginger, smoked wooden notes as well as some liquorice. Flavour is liquorice, ginger, some dry wood and mild ashy notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2016
at 04:47
4.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle, bb 12.08.2016 (thanks Kauge). Pours dark brown-black with light brown head. The head stays for some time. Aroma is raw sugar, fruits, metallic, faint roast. Flavor is sweet and bitter, roast, metallic taste, more raw sugar. Finish is roast, sugar sweetness with very very faint ginger. Overall: not a total disaster, but I prefer not drinking it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Apr 2016
at 14:28