6.6

Too boozy for me.

6.2

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Super hazy straw and light yellow coloured body with a very thick, four to five centimetre tall deep tan head that fades nicely and leaves a good lace on the sides of the glass. Aroma of alcohol, dry and herbal hops with a strong resinous note too, with a big hit of malts, oat and wheat. Full-bodied; Very sweet and syrupy notes show at first with a soft kick of stone fruit and some citrus fruits, along with a deep malt backbone, but the alcohol and fairly strong astringency are the big notes here. Aftertaste is pungent, very strong with bitterness, but not from the hops, this is all about the astringency and strength of the sugars and warmth from the alcohol here. Overall, a very strong, incredibly pungent and not terribly balanced beer here. I do want to congratulate the Colorado Avalanche on winning the Stanley Cup [2022] (hard to do as native of Detroit and a Red Wings fan, but those rivalry days are long gone), which is why I'm drinking this beer, but this beer was not worth bringing back from Denver back to the East Coast! Still, nice to try, just once! Good to be back home in the states after a trip with my wife and three kids to Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA, not the best country in the world. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Total Beverage in Thornton, Colorado on 30-January-2022 for US$5,83 sampled after returning home on 04-July-2022, Independence Day here in our Nation's Capital - Washington, after overlooking those fireworks over this fine city in THE best country in the world!

6

Hapu mustika mahl. Okish.

7.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Can. A- Coffee, chocolate, sweet. A- Black color, black liquid, minimal head. T- Chocolate, coffee, walnut, vanilla. P- Full body, average texture, average carbonation, sweet finish. O- This was very sweet and did taste like the flavor profile it was after. Mostly coffee though. Not bad but 16 oz is too much for one person.

7.3

Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Pastry stout from Colorado with peanut butter, banana (!) and marshmallow, can shared with Craftmember. Medium thick, pale mocha-beige, thinning and opening to eventually dissolving head; ink black robe with a weird and unpleasantly looking sludge in the end, a drab which I suppose is a leftover of the added ingredients (actual peanut butter, perhaps?) – proving that this thing is real and not just aromatized, as is all too often the case in these postmodern flavoured stouts, but ‘appetising’ it is not. Aroma of strong banana in an artificial way (like Pisang Ambon liqueur or banana candy), rotten banana flesh, peanut butter but less strong than usual in peanut butter flavoured stouts, milk chocolate with cognac, coffee liqueur, hints of pecan nut, Snickers, chocolate milk or indeed marshmallows, Parfait Amour, mocha ice cream – and a solventy effect like fresh paint or nail polish. Very sweet and sticky, creamy onset, very banana-forward but again more like Pisang Ambon than actual banana; notes of fig jam and evidently peanut butter, the latter thinly but persistently following a rounded, full, near-syrupy chocolate and toffee core, notably thinned by alcohol at an early stage. Deep chocolateyness fills the mouth, never acquiring anything roasty but still not becoming unbearably sweet, so in this respect this whole concoction remains relatively well proportioned; alas, the alcohol becomes a bit too scorching in the end, the Pisang Ambon flavour dominates all the way through and clashes with the peanut butter and the sludge of whatever-it-is in the end takes away the appetite. Interesting attempt, in all, but with very odd result, not free of flaws.

8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Aromas are dry grain, malt, fruit, with a little spice and floral. Flavors are somewhat similar to nose, melon and stone fruit come out a little more, excellent balance between bitter, sweet and carbonation. Very nice beer.

8.2

Juice drank