Shaft Coffee Stout
Whistle Buoy Brewing in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured Regular|
Score
6.31
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Our beer version of the Shaft, Victoria’s go-to pick name up drink. Created from a luxurious blend of dark malts layered together with chocolate, coffee, and coconutty hops. This classic combo kicks things up a notch to get the taste buds buzzing.
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5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 5.5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
On tap at Whistle Buoy. Pours black with a beige head. Smells like artificial sweetnener and cheap instant coffee. Tastes like artificial coffee candies: light, chocolate-like coffee, sugars, and milk. I could eat a Coffee Crisp and get the same taste, fewer calories, and less disappointment.
Tried
from Draft
at
Whistle Buoy Brewing
on 05 Apr 2026
at 01:58
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 5
Overall 5
473mL can, pours a deep dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma has lots of sweetened coffee, a touch of cocoa, and toasted malt. Flavour has plenty of sweetened coffee, a hint of cocoa, and toasted malt. Not complex, and the coffee kinds of strikes me as a cheap sweetened cup of coffee. Thin and lacking depth but not bad.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Nov 2025
at 08:26
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
473 ml can. Pours black with full tan head of big bubbles. Aromas of ground coffee, bittering hops, chocolate and roasted malts. Flavors of powdery dark chocolate, dry black coffee, watery cola, and roasted malts, all with some odd distracting plastic notes. Doesn’t list coffee in the ingredients list but assume so.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Apr 2025
at 23:08