bottle at home ... copper ... thin tan head ... dark malts ... light toffee malt ... light tartness ... soft roast ... its a bit thin and a little light as a stout ... ok --- Beer merged from original tick of Rare Breed Surefoot Stout on 26 Apr 2013 at 12:28 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7. Original review text: bottle at home ... dark chocolate malts ... thin tan hea d... soft roast malts ... dark roast ... chewy malts ... litttle too fizzy ... ok ... but no real depth

Bottle. Rich amber beer with a cream colored head. Grapefruit and tropical fruit aroma with light pine. Grapefruit and tropical fruit flavor with light pine. Medium bodied. Tropical friut and grapefruit linger with light malt.

From a 640ml bottle on 20/11/2011. Pours a dark orange with a big lasting head. Has a decent fruity hop and caramel aroma. Has a sweet caramel malt backbone with a nice hoppy finish. Certainly not over the top by IPA standards but enjoyable. Rating 3.6.

Re-rate - From a 330ml bottle on 24/10/2012. Appears to now be a Mountain Goat standard. Not much different to what I’ve said above, other than the head is less prominent, and I think I was more than a little harsh with the rating the first time. Just a really solid American style IPA, with a lovely sweet/bitter balance.

bottle at home .. from my GBBF haul ... copper .. thin white head ... soft sweet fruity hop nose... light fizz ... soft zezt ... light bitter ... little passion fruit ... soft creamy malts ... its ok .. but not really me.

From a 640ml bottle on 4/11/2011. Pours a relatively clear dark orange, with a medium head. Has a pleasant aroma of tropical fruits, a touch of coffee, and some distinct floral notes. Flavour wise, bitter dark roasted coffee dominates (I’m stunned that some others say they can’t taste the coffee) but there’s also a lots of sweet fruitiness in the background. Nice stuff.

Bottle. Pours an orange color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty hoppy bitter citrus aroma. Fruity malty hoppy bitter citrus flavor. Has a fruity malty hoppy bitter citrus finish.

bottle at papsø tasting. cloudy orange, smooth white head. mild hoppy aroma, dry flavor is malty, flowery, hoppy.

Light copper color. Soft grapefruits with just a hint of coffee. The coffee hits your palate first and then it becomes all about the ipa. A touch sour, not a ton of bitterness, butthat probably works well for this beer. Coffee an oranges probably dominate the most in the mouth. Interesting.

Bottle 640ml.Unclear medium orange colour with a small average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, caramel, moderate hoppy, orange - citrus, mandarin, pine. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110918]

Pours dark amber with ruby hints.Nose shows tropical fruity hops in abundance with passion-fruit and peach really standing out. Underneath is a soft earthy, nutty character that, once smelt, is easily recognisable as the coffee. Adds an interesting aspect.The coffee is much more noticeable as a flavour, adding a distinct earthy, bitter note. The hops enter afterwards with more fruity characters along with a fair bit of sweet clean malt.Could use more carbonation.Definitely interesting, but the coffee character seems a little harsh as a flavour.