Faction Brewing NYX

NYX

 

Faction Brewing in Alameda, California, United States 🇺🇸

  Stout - Imperial Regular
Score
7.37
ABV: 12.5% IBU: - Ticks: 21
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7.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
CBC. Black with a small brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, coffee and chocolate. Flavor is very sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish with warming alcohol. 130516
Tried on 30 May 2016 at 11:44

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
[5/13/16] Draught sample at Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2016. Blue session. Black with some brown foam. Roast, coffee, licorice, vanilla. Sweet flavor with chocolate, vanilla, roast, bourbon, a bit of licorice, bitter finish. Full-bodied.
Tried on 27 May 2016 at 10:41

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Tap@Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2016, Copenhagen - black pour with a tan head. Roasted malty aroma and taste with notes of chocolate, caramel, some burnt brown sugar, some wooden notes, roasty finish.
Tried from Draft on 25 May 2016 at 15:50

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Sample at CBC Blue Session. Pours black with small tan head. Roasted aroma with some bourbon, vanilla, oak, light chocolate. Sweetish, thin chocolate taste with bourbon notes and roast.
Tried on 18 May 2016 at 11:26

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Sample at CBC 2016. Black with a small tan head. Roasted malt, some bourbon, dark fruit and chocolate. A bit on the sweet side with a big body. The finish was long.
Tried on 16 May 2016 at 12:15

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
CBC2016. Schwarze Farbe,. Geruch nach Schokolade, Kaffee, Vanille. Geschmack süß röstmalzig, Vanille, Kaffee, Schokolade, lecker.
Tried on 14 May 2016 at 01:04

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Keg at cbc16... Dark black... Thin tan lacing... Soft chocolate roast malts nose.. Dark dry chocolate roast.. Big malts
Tried on 13 May 2016 at 23:59

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
Tap at CBC 2016 Blue session. Poured almost black with little life. The aroma is roasty malt, molasses, big fruit. The flavour is moderate sweet with a rich alcoholic bitter palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried from Draft on 13 May 2016 at 13:05

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
From tap. Pours hazy dark brown to black with a fully gone head. Aroma is dark roasted malty and breadish. Dark malty and roasted. Lingering dark malty. Breadish and liqoruice dense dark malty finish.
Tried from Draft on 13 May 2016 at 12:21

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Draught @ CBC 2016, Copenhagen. Pours pitch black with a tiny head. Aroma of roasty malts, wood, vanilla, oak and bourbon. Taste is smooth, slightly roasty and sweetish with some bourbon and wood. Finish is sweet and syrupy with some wood, oak and vanilla. A bit generic.
Tried on 13 May 2016 at 09:45