Four
Surly Brewing Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Special Out of Production|
Score
7.61
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BREWED FOR: OUR FOURTH ANNIVERSARY. FANTASTIC.
Brewed with too many espresso beans, too much roasted barley, and a healthy dose of milk sugar, this Double Espresso Milk Stout has layers of chocolate, espresso, and smoke flavors, intertwined with a velvety lush body.
Brewed with too many espresso beans, too much roasted barley, and a healthy dose of milk sugar, this Double Espresso Milk Stout has layers of chocolate, espresso, and smoke flavors, intertwined with a velvety lush body.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Thanks to cloudskipper. Quite good, though my expectations were a bit high and it didn’t quite live up. It’s a creamy beer, lots of dark roast, lots of coffee. The aroma blends coffee, chocolate, roast nicely, though I’d say coffee dominates, in a good way. Flavor is heavy on the iced coffee. Would have liked some more of the cocoa to show up on the palate.
Tried
on 04 Jun 2010
at 08:24
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Courtesy of Blazer06. It pours deep darkness with nice dark tan head. The aroma is musty malts, dark roastiness, black licorice, dark roasted coffee, slight rauch maltiness and wet coffee grounds. The taste is smooth and quickly running into strong dark coffee along with sweetness and some light lactose. It stays very coffee like and thick with sweet malts before picking up a touch of coffee or roasted drying astringency.
Tried
on 01 Jun 2010
at 18:34
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Draft @ Cafe 28. Pours a very dark brown, near black color with a finger of creamy brown head. Nose is roasty and somewhat burnt malts with a heavy espresso element, yet hints at sweetness. The taste is very rich in roast, espresso, dark chocolate, and faint burnt malts. Just a little bit of that smokiness. Very rich and creamy. As an espresso fan I really liked this flavor infusion. Subtle, but rich. Not to mention the swirling pattern of brown lacing formed this really cool picture that I swear looked like the grim reaper from a prior Darkness bottle... Very cool.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Mar 2010
at 14:04
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Winterfest 2010. I was disappointed they decided to do a coffee bee for Four , as they already have Coffee Bender, and that is a great beer already. Coffee aroma. Dark brown color. Flavor has coffee, but not as much as coffee bender. Smooth, and an slicky, oily texture. Some alcohol in this one. Lightly sweet malt, and it is well balanced, and of course well made.
Tried
on 18 Feb 2010
at 13:52