Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours mahogany tinged black into a shaker. Tan head with good retention recedes leaving sheet lacing. Milk chocolate and Cocoa Puff aromas. Sweet with mixed morning cereal milk from front to back... Cocoa Puffs, Sugar Pops, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch... put a little coffee in it and you've got a true breakfast stout.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sticker on the 4 pack holder shows the date. Aroma shows light citrus hints, grassy hops, with light pale malt undertone. Flavor is the same citrus and lightly danky hops, with a soft mouthfeel. This fairs better for me then EVO 3 that I sampled yesterday.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Sticker on top of the 4 pack read 12-21-18. So this is EVO 3. Pours a near clear deep gold color. Aroma shows mild unripe fruit, yeast, slight herbal tone. Flavor reflects subtle citrus, peach and a sweet grain hint. English yeast gives this a totally different feel from the original. I perfer the original much more.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Got in a trade with brutalfarce. 16 ounce can into tulip glass, canned on 12/12/2018. Pours nearly opaque dark brown/black color with a 1 finger dense and rocky light khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big peanut butter, milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, vanilla, cream, roasted nuts, and toasted dark/brown bread; with light notes of toffee, dark fruit, smoke, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt, peanut butter, lactose, and light fruity yeast/earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big peanut butter, milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, vanilla, cream, roasted nuts, and toasted dark/brown bread; with light notes of toffee, dark fruit, smoke, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Light herbal, floral, grassy hop; and roasted bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of peanut butter, milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, vanilla, cream, roasted nuts, toasted dark/brown bread, light toffee/smoke, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, peanut butter, lactose, and light fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; with an awesome roast/hop bitter/sweet balance, and no cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering hop/roast bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, creamy/silky/bready, and lightly sticky/chalky mouthfeel that is great. Maybe just a tad thinner than expected. Minimal warming alcohol as expected of 5.5%. Overall this is a fantastic flavored milk/sweet stout. All around outstanding complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, peanut butter, lactose, and light fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; extremely smooth and easy to drink with the mildly bitter/drying finish; great soft feel. Awesome balance of rich malts, lactose, and peanut butter flavors; with mild fruity yeast and balancing earthy hops against sweetness. A highly enjoyable offering, and spot on English style example.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours hazy deep gold into a tulip. White head with little retention recedes to hug rim. Pine and scallion aromas. Soft with sweet onion, pine and pith front to back.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
16 ounce can. Canned on 11/01/18. Features Amarillo, Topaz and Rakau hops. Murky tan pour us topped by a frothy beige head. Faint citrus hop nose. Tangy citrus hop flavor upfront. Notes of passionfruit, tangerine and apricot. Some boozy notes. Tasty and quaffable at 7% ABV.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
12.5.18.
Mahogany with olivine tints. Light tan head shows low retention. Can't tell the clarity.
Lovely nose full of roasted peanut, milk chocolate, char, prune and vanilla that all give a highly aromatic, rich character with good balance and no alcohol or overdone aspects.
Flavor is slightly less exciting with more caramel, lactose and somewhat disjointed peanut butter, as well as a bit of thinning. Seems more adjunct-textured than malt textured at points, though the individual flavors are all good. Low, somewhat engaging carbonation and moderate attenuation. Very solid for a regular canned offering. The recipe seems great and hopefully gets refined further.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
16 ounce can. Hazy orange gold color. Frothy white head. Fragrant tropical fruit nose. Lots of juicy goodness. Notes of lemon, tangerine, guava and melon. Amazing flavor for a pale ale with low alcohol. Bready malt and exotic fruit flavor. Delicious.