Freetail Brewing Co. La Muerta

La Muerta

 

Freetail Brewing Co. in San Antonio, Texas, United States 🇺🇸

  Stout - Imperial Regular
Score
7.25
ABV: 9.1% IBU: 50 Ticks: 38
A growing South Texas tradition, La Muerta is brewed each year for Día de los Muertos in honor of our departed friends and family. A big, lush Imperial Stout, La Muerta is full of roast, smoke and chocolate flavors from an array of specialty malts that go into this garnetblack ale. If you are holding this bottle, it means either you (or someone you know with a kind heart) boldly stood in line for hours on the first Saturday of November. Karma rewards those who give selflessly, so share with your closest compadres or a new friend. La Muerta will age wonderfully for years to come – we recommend enjoying one now and save some for the future, if you can. ¡Salud!
 

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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle 650ml @ fonefan
Pours pitch black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, caramel, alcohol and coffee. Taste is medium sweet and light to medium bitter with a long chocolate and coffee finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation soft.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Mar 2014 at 09:11


7.6
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle, 22oz. It pours a black body under a dense, finger-thick light tan head. The aroma has chocolate, coffee, roasted malts and even more coffee. Some herbal hints. Supposed to be smoked, but I don’t detect that in the aroma. Some in the flavor though, which is also sweet, roasted and chocolatey. Not so much coffee. Full body and a soft carbonation. Coffee, roasted malts and some vanilla in the lasting finish. Alcohol notes all the way. A really nice one, tasteful and moreish. 140301

Tried from Bottle on 01 Mar 2014 at 09:11


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Black with a beige head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt and coffee. Flavor is very sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish with warming alcohol. 010314

Tried from Bottle on 01 Mar 2014 at 09:10


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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

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Tried on 01 Mar 2014 at 09:09


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Nice head with good duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are roast malt, chocolate, cocoa, coffee, licorice notes and hops.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Mar 2014 at 09:08


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

22 oz. Bottle from a trade with bu11zeye. Nose is a mixture of campfire, ashy malt and chili pepper. Taste is overly smoky, large amounts of old peppers, an imperial stout base is here but I really dislike smoked malt. This smoked malt lingers for a long duration. Ashy texture. I really tried to like this. But peppers and smoked malt really just isn’t my thing.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Feb 2014 at 15:20


6.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Thanks Chris for sharing this. bomber split this 4...could be 1 or even 2 years old. Batch number is unknown. pitch black. Smells like chipotle and smoke and sweet onions. Whoa. This is green peppers, smoked sausage, ham, salt brine and chocolate caramel coffee stout all molded into one. It’s good for what it is but I just can’t drink more than 1-2 ounces of this.

Tried from Can on 15 Feb 2014 at 14:48


4.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

22 oz. bottle, sent from mista (thanks a lot, Geoff), pours black with small tan head. Nose brings out smoky notes, meat and a touch of roast. Flavour brings loads of smoked notes, but not really in a pleasant way, like an ashtray instead. Some hints of oxidation as well. Not good at all. Bleh. Couldn't finish my glass.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Nov 2013 at 09:35


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

65 cl bottle @ Tampella
Aroma is odd with cocoa notes, some soy sauce and peppery (chili?) spices. Flavour has cocoa, smoky notes & chili (chipotle?). Also some soy sauce and licorice. Finishes with moldy cellar tones that do grow stronger towards the end of the glass. Feels a bit watery and too salty, but decent anyway.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Nov 2013 at 08:05


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

650ml bottle, thanks rosenbergh

Pours pitch black with a brown head. Aroma of spices, roastiness, dark chocolate and hints of ash. Taste is smooth, slightly smoked and roasty with hints of ash, dark chocolate and spices. Finish is warming, spicy, touches of mold cellar and a bit stingy with hints of smoked roastiness and dark chocolate. Okay, a bit untypically spiced imperial stout.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Nov 2013 at 08:02