Morning Star
Four Quarters Brewing in Winooski, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.53
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johnnnniee (7495) reviewed Morning Star from Four Quarters Brewing 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can from the Advent box. Inky black color with a huge frothy tan head that persists. Coffee roast chocolate and hints of vanilla on the nose and palette. Creamy mouth thick body. Nice sipper.
Garrold (11394) reviewed Morning Star from Four Quarters Brewing 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Tap, at the brewery. Nearly black. Slim ring of tan. Nose has coffee grinds. Coffee chocolate truffle. Robust maple syrup. Vanilla. Taste is sweet, with moderate, earthy coffee bitterness. Medium body. Drinks easy. Fine carbonation. Lingering bittersweet finish.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Morning Star from Four Quarters Brewing 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Draught at the brewery, 3/24/18.
Opaque, dark ebony. Tan head fizzles slowly but surely to nothing.
Fudgey, not intensely-so, with dark chocolate and softer vanilla on the edges. Soft, mild, lightly fruity coffee adds a charming, lighter character while light raisin and roast-dotted fudge sit on the end, contributing both balance and heft. Certainly dessert-like or decadent, I suppose, without all of the over-the-top sugar and adjunct dominance. No alcohol noted, nor flaw.
In mouth it shows the fudge from the nose alongside light lactose and chocolate, giving it a creamy-sweet character up front. Light coffee, black malt-like cocoa powder and light coffee rind all create good bitterness/acidity through the middle, balancing nicely. Soft, silky, malty texture with plentiful depth and good attenuation. Low but tight carbonation and no alcohol or flaw. Proof that you don't need 10+% abv and shit loads of booze, sugar and every type of adjunct to make an incredibly rich, flavorful, decadent stout.
radagast83 (13490) reviewed Morning Star from Four Quarters Brewing 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Poured from a bottle at Savor: An American Craft Beer & Food Experience 2018. Poured a really dark black color with a medium sized tan head. Aroma was roasted malts, plenty of roasted coffee. NOt overly bitter. Some light herbal notes, milk chocolate, dark chocolate. Roasted woody notes, smooth vanilla bourbon.
CLW (16859) reviewed Morning Star from Four Quarters Brewing 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
5 oz. draft at the source. Great flavor!!shows me chocolate, coffee, light maple notes. Finish bitter coffee. Bitter cold coffee. Nice sweet finish.
Caution lactose sugar!! Nice coffee finish.Slightly acidic. Nice beer well balanced. Great job brewer!!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Growlette from Natural Provisions, Williston, VT.
All pours were into a snifter.
The appearance was a nice looking black color with a finger’s worth of off white to almond tan colored head. Adequate roaming stringy lacing.
The aroma strings sweet to roasty coffee bean in and out of some roasted cocoa bean, freely flowing on into a sly vanilla and subtle sweet oaty, and has a graceful milky/creamy sort of flair to it.
The flavor takes all of that but adds a coffee bean acidity to it. Semi-sticky sort of milk chocolate and vanilla bean sweetness flowing into the aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fair sipping quality about it. Mild carbonation. Acceptable stickiness, feels good for the most part.
Overall, it’s the aroma and feel that are quite magical and extremely well done, but that flavor, wishing the acidity could be pulled down in this one because this could be a comparable high quality imperial breakfast stout if that acidity could just be brought into submission.