Belly of the Beast
Rockingham Brewing Company in Derry, New Hampshire, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.23
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
From notes taster at source, pitch black with an off white head. Aromas of smoky dark chocolate malt. Taste is roasty malt, mild chocolate, and a smokey finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pours black into a tulip. Mocha head with medium retention recedes to hug rim. Smoke aromas. Medium bodied with soy and smoke upfront turning to sweet licorice before returning to smoke in the lasting finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle pour into tulip glass. Aroma is roasty, smoky, chocolatey. Appearance is opaque black with small, light brown ring of head. Taste is roasty malts with chocolate and more the smokey aspect of bacon than the real meat flavor. Palate is light to medium bodied with average texture and soft carbonation and long smoky finish with mild bitterness at back of the teeth. Overall, this is good--not fantastic, but good. More smoke than true bacon.
CLW (16720) reviewed Belly of the Beast from Rockingham Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Pitch black color.with lasting off white head with some lace. Aroma is mostly smoke with chocolate hiding underneath. The bacon comes off completly like smoke. ( I was really hoping of salty and oily texture but... NO! ) The body is decent, fuller side. Flavor, charred malts, weak chocolate, moderate smoke, some charred grain. Smoke lingers a tad after the sip.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
on tap-brown-black. A-roasty/smokey-dk malt. T-smokey/roasty-dk malt, bacon, hint of earthy hop offset.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Taster at the source. Solid dark brown/black with a quickly dissipating tan head. Big roasty aromas and flavors with a smoky quality I assume from the bacon. Hints of chocolate and caramel round us out. Nice stout, but the bacon comes through more as smoke than pork.