7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
New Edition to beer in NH, I brought a few bottles home today form a tasting at Bert’s. Pours a dark brown almost black color with a decent tan head that has some staying power. Smells of coffee and roasted grains. Hints of chocolate, but the coffee aromas are strong with this one. Taste is again coffee and roasted grains, slightly acridic but overall nicely coffee’d. There are hints of chocolate, caramel, and licorice in here but the coffee overwhelms most of the flavor here. Medium body, light to moderate level of carbonation, slick oily acridic mouthfeel. The coffee is strong in this, but it still has enough other flavors to keep it interesting. I like it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jul 2011
at 19:38
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
New Edition to beer in NH, I brought a few bottles home today form a tasting at Bert’s. Pours a deep golden amber color with a good sized white head that dissipate to a ring on thew top. Smell is malty sweet with hints of earthy and citrus hops. Slightly bready and toasty with hint of vegetative aroma. Taste is mildly sweet with a chalky minerally taste mixed with the earthy vegetative hops. Medium to thin body moderate carbonation and an oily/chalky mouthfeel. Honestly this tasted a lot better at the store. I can’t see myself buying this one again I can think of lots of Pale Ales more deserving of my cash, although the 16oz bottles are cool.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jul 2011
at 17:24
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Purchased at Breeze Thru Liquors in Milwaukee, WI; enjoyed on a Friday night watching the Brewers vs. the Red Sox (I live in Chicago...). Appearance was honestly weak, the pour was black but it just looked weak and it’s black with no head at all. Aroma of roasted malt and coffee, also a bit of chocolate, slightly nutty. This to me is not a stout, it’s a coffee porter. It doesn’t have that thickness to it and it’s also not milky. If I was rating this as a coffee porter, it would be great! But for a coffee stout it’s weak. Taste equal parts coffee and chocolate along with the roasted malt. OK, maybe there’s a little lactose in there but really it’s subdued. I am surprised at how easy of a drinker this is, goes down very smooth and makes you wanting more. It is good, and I do like it, but it’s not a stout.
Tried
on 17 Jun 2011
at 18:56
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Amber with a thin head. Aroma of grape, caramel and bread. Flavour has toasted notes some chocolate and fruit. Dry bitter palate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 May 2011
at 12:30
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
16 oz bottle, $2.50@ Ray’s, Wauwatosa. I think I’ll extend the love and sportsmanship to just one more Green Bay beer. This pours with a mild dose of hop nose which actually smells more American than English. Good coppery pale ale color. Some earthy and peppery English hops turn up once I commence to drink it. Rather light mouthfeel, but it goes well with the lighter hop load. I’m guessing this is a session-strength beer, Carbonation can overwhelm this at times, but it’s still nice and easy drinking. I’ll remember it fondly as I watch the Bears munch on cheeseheads en route to the Super Bowl.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jan 2011
at 20:39
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
16 oz. bottle, $2.50 @Ray’s of Wauwatosa. Yes, I just may have something nice to say about a product from Green Bay. I wanted to test it against a Chicago version, but most stouts with coffee are of Imperial strength. So this stands alone. Note: Label says it’s made by Green Bay Brewing.
Pours black with the darkest brown head I can remember. Smell has the roasty malt of a stout, with some burnt marshmallow. Can’t pick out coffee in the nose, but it’s still a nice smell. Taste is full of the roasty goodness of a dry stout, no touch of sourness to my buds. Malt stays just this side of being harsh or astringent. Coffee is found first with bitter edges, then impressions of espresso on the middle of my tongue. I will see in a few hours if this is enough to keep me awake. But this is a fine example of a beer matched with coffee, rather than overwhelmed by it.
Pours black with the darkest brown head I can remember. Smell has the roasty malt of a stout, with some burnt marshmallow. Can’t pick out coffee in the nose, but it’s still a nice smell. Taste is full of the roasty goodness of a dry stout, no touch of sourness to my buds. Malt stays just this side of being harsh or astringent. Coffee is found first with bitter edges, then impressions of espresso on the middle of my tongue. I will see in a few hours if this is enough to keep me awake. But this is a fine example of a beer matched with coffee, rather than overwhelmed by it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2011
at 21:16
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle. Pours almost black, tan head. Aroma of dark cocoa and pine. Taste is oily, some bitter cocoa, with bitterness near the finish. An odd combination of flavors.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Dec 2010
at 16:38
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
16oz bottle. Deep, opaque brown-black with a massive brown-beige head. Coffee and chocolate are very present in the aroma, but there is also some faint herbal fruitness. Roasty and malt centered, with some mild balancing bitterness that melds with the cocoa tones. Mellow carbonation. Sweet finish, not unlike Anchor OSA. Pretty nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Dec 2010
at 22:44
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6
Dark brown. Aroma of Starbucks and Hershey bar. Taste of dilute coffee, but not much else.
Tried
on 03 Nov 2010
at 18:52
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
16oz Bottle pours out a deep dark mahogany brown witha full and lasting creamy yellowish tan head. Earthy woody aroma of sweet dark malts and a little touch of chemical cleaner. Flavor is woody and dusty and a definite touch of ashtray. As I continue to sip it, the dusty wet ashtray is setting in a bit more. I so wanted to like this one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Aug 2010
at 20:50