Velvet Evil
Straight to Ale in Huntsville, Alabama, United States 🇺🇸
Traditional Beer - Old Ale Regular|
Score
6.96
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A variant of the same old ale used as the base beer for Unobtanium and Illudium, it has been spiked with subtle hints of coffee and raspberry and a full-on dose of rich chocolate. It is deceptively smooth, sweet and delicious.
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6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 oz can from Tavour. Nose is chestnut, berry, coffee, and a hint of chocolate. Clear dark rusty brown with a medium beige head. Flavor is nutty, lightly bitter, and a hint of alcohol. As much as the extra ingredients try to add it's not much when compared to a great old ale like Adam.
Tried
from Can
on 07 May 2018
at 22:47
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Aromaz are mostly chocolate malt and raspberry with the barest hint of coffee. Flavors are similar to nose with coffee a bit stronger some good Carbonic Tang fairly sweet a little bitter in the Finish good body also some booze warmth towards the end of the Finish. Good beer.
Tried
on 27 Mar 2018
at 03:33
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 oz can from Tavour. First rating from Alabama. Aroma is raspberry, nutty, caramel, wet stone, licorice, chocolate, alcohol. Pours hazy brown and looks amber in the light; has a one finger beige head that collapses somewhat quick into a ring. Taste is lightly sweet, alcoholic, with flavors like the aroma but with noticeable grassy hop and sherry character. Finishes moderately bitter (high for this style). Kind of a crazy concoction, but it works for the most part.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Mar 2018
at 04:14
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3
Nothing in this beer is working for me. Cloying sweetness from the get-go, with an artificial chocolate front blotting out any of the deeper malt or fruit characteristics you want in an old ale. Grows a berry tartness towards the middle, but the intense bitterness on the back end mixes with the chocolate to create a saccharine, NyQuil-ish boozy finish, unappealing and incredibly clingy. Sugars refuse to relent on the fade. Nose is strangely weak, however, giving no hint towards just how massive a chocolate syrup-bomb this brew truly is. Looks okay, texture’s thick with a noticeable burn. Made it through a third of a 12 oz. can. Hard pass.
Tried
from Can
on 02 May 2017
at 11:48
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
22oz bottle thanks to oldrtybastrd
Pours dark brown with a small beige head, some lacing. Aroma of Mexican chocolate, caramel, berries and coffee. Flavor of chocolate, rasberries, milk chocolate and sweet malts
Good, smooth for 13%
Pours dark brown with a small beige head, some lacing. Aroma of Mexican chocolate, caramel, berries and coffee. Flavor of chocolate, rasberries, milk chocolate and sweet malts
Good, smooth for 13%
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Sep 2015
at 21:49
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Shared at Ale Alpharetta. Dark, ruby brown, with a bubbly, beige head. The aroma is butter toffee, a little tobacco, cardamom, and milk chocolate. Very sweet, with a strong savory spice. Heavy body, grainy, thick, and pleasantly sharp. This is a strong and interesting beer.
Tried
on 19 Jun 2015
at 10:42