7

1/7/09: Aroma is chocolate, malts, and coffee. Flavor is roasty, with a smooth, light coffee flavor hidden in within blasts of chocolate.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

From old tasting notes. Opaque black color topped by a bubbly tan head. Rich roasted malt aroma hints at coffee. Bittersweet roasted malt flavor has notes of chocolate, coffee and licorice.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle. Black pour with thin fast dissipating head. Aroma is coffee and berry. Lightish body and flavour has roast and coffee notes. Light coffee finish.
Earlier Rating: 11/26/2008 Total Score: 3.8
Bomber. Poured black wtih thin fast dissipating head. Aroma of caramel, malt and coffee. Coffee flavour on a solid malt backbone. Caramel notes. Lingering coffee finish. Worth going back to.

7.4

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

Bomber bought at Super 1 in Rathdrum, ID; bottled on Oct. 8, 2012. This label is nothing like what’s pictured here. It looks like Redhook resurrected this retired beer and put it in their Blueline Series. Instead of being made with Starbucks coffee like it shows on the label here, this new version is made with Caffe Vita coffee. I don’t know if this should be listed under a new entry or not. Pours super dark brown to black with a collapsing tan head. Aroma is of bread crust, coffee, caramel. Taste is bitter and a little tart. Not sure if that sour note is supposed to be there or not, but the coffee really shines through--tastes like strong black coffee. Not bad.

6.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

3rd October 2009
Bottle from a Las Vegas liquor store. Opaque black beer made with coffee. Odd copper metal nose with light coffee. Light crisp palate. Fresh malt with light cream. Very light coffee. Good carbonated bite in the finish. All adds up to a suppable light coffee beer.

7

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

Pours a solid black with a big fluffy tan head that sticks around forever. Smells of coffee and roasted grains, little bit of chocolate syrup and a chalky aroma as well. Taste is coffee and chocolate some toffee and butter. Has a bitter hop and roast finish. Mouthfeel is a thin syrup, body is medium to thin, carbonation is low. Not anything spectacular here. I’m not sure I would call this a double or imperial stout, but I would drink this. The only thing holding me back is the 7.99 price tag when there are much better bombers of stout available at that price point or lower.

7.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle, 2008 Vintage drank in 2010. Pours opaque, black-brown with a medium, beige head. Enticingly roasty aroma with plenty of chocolate and cocoa. Flavor is fairly sweet and dark/milk chocolate notes and mocha bitterness. Medium bodied, smooth and creamy with soft carbonation. Finish sweet, roasty and dried out with lingering chocolate notes. Really good.

6.6

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

Bottle. Pours a black color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel and chocolate aroma. Sweetism roasted malty caramel flavor with hints of chocolate. Has a roasted malty caramel finish.

6.5

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

Creamy, chocolatey and full of coffee, this stout fits the bill of a coffee stout, but it’s just too sweet to win me over. The whole thing is a bit one note. It’s a lot of coffee flavor against a fairly sweet chocolate malt background. Well, I guess that’s more than one note, but let’s not be so literal. The feel is fairly full. There are some bittering hop notes in the finish, but they don’t bring a lot to the beer. This beer sort of reminds of a can of Starbuck’s Doubleshot, which I don’t exactly hate, but the flavors don’t quite work incredibly here. Still, there are good qualities to the beer and it was made fairly well, I imagine.

6.5

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

Bottle 65cl. @ Chris O’s Night of the Gaylords.Clear dark brown color with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, light chocolate. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20091229]