City of the Dead
Modern Times Beer in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.62
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A burly export stout loaded with our bourbon barrel-aged coffee beans. We’ve had great success with Black House & Monsters’ Park dosed with barrel-aged coffee, but we wanted to design a beer from scratch specifically to feature these beans. Full-bodied and a touch sweet, City of the Dead will be explosively aromatic and saturated with barrel-aged coffee character.
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4/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 17
Pillowy light tan head on a dark brown body. Nose is rich, with dark chocolate, roasted coffee, cherries and wood. The bourbon is there, but nicely integrated. The roasted coffee grows through the drink. Dark chocolate, molasses, dark fruit and a touch of chocolate fudge. A nice clean finish, which was unexpected.
Tried
on 23 Sep 2025
at 20:16
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught@CBC2016. Black colour, mediumsized beigeish brown head. Aroma is coffee, some wood, liquorice, alcohol and some dried fruits. Flavour is sweet malts, coffee, some roasted notes, a bit liquorice and alcohol with some figgy/plummy tones as well.
Tried
on 08 Sep 2023
at 22:12
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
Black body with tan head. Coffee, chocolate and caramel aroma. Chocolate, malt and caramel taste, very full. Long roasty finish.
Tried
on 12 Dec 2020
at 04:55
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
(Bottle) Black colour with lasting, beige head. Malty, roasted nose with notes of fresh coffee, dark chocolate, black rye bread, vanilla, bourbon and hints of red berries and tamarind. Malty, roasted taste with dark chocolate, vanilla, milky coffee, black rye bread, dates and a mild roasty bitterness in the finish. More than medium body, with a certain sweetness. Mainly coffee in the nose, with more chocolate coming through in the mouth. Smooth, complex and quite rich in taste. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Dec 2020
at 21:53
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Pours a black colour and a beige head with good lacing. Aroma's: big coffee, roast. Retronasal it's coffee, sourish, sweetish, roast. Flavour is moderate sweet and light coffee-sour. Medium bodied. Finishes roasty, moderate biter.
Tried
from Draft
at
Modern Times - Far West Lounge
on 05 Jan 2020
at 12:09
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared by Rasmus. Thanks buddy :) Pours pitch black with a medium brown head. Aromas of lots of sweet coffee, chocolate, dark fruits, malt, vanilla. Taste is chocolate, roasty, bitter, vanilla, dark fruits, toasty honey wheat cereal.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2019
at 16:55
8.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Nice. Aroma is roasty but coffee is quite subtle, tobacco, rich and chocolatey, just hint of booze. Taste is very nice. Smooth, bit of coffee, very rounded, light bitterness, bit of bourbon at the finish, roasty, caramel sweetness, black treacle, little smoke.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2019
at 16:03
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Black with a tan head. Chocolate, roasted malt, diet, molasses, caramel, and dark brown sugar. Medium bodied. Finish is sweet and chocolatey. A solid stout.
Tried
on 22 Feb 2019
at 12:36
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jan 2019
at 13:34
9/10
Accidentally deleted this check-in from 2016, ignore this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2018
at 14:06