Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Dark brown. The aroma is chocolate and peppermint. On the palate, it's actually nutty, chocolatey, the mint is not quite as aggressive on the palate but it's still pretty prominent. Good body. Solid stout, the peppermint doesn't not work.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Poured from 500mL bottle. Very dark brown with minimal light beige head. Nice balanced peppermint and cocoa - quite intense peppermint, but compliments the cocoa notes nicely - like a peppermint chocolate girl guide cookie. Body is a touch thin, and not getting much barrel character due to the intensity of the peppermint.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
16.9 oz. bottle, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma is full of bright, mouth-refreshing peppermint, light bourbon, and moderate roasted malt. Flavour is surprisingly refreshing as well, with bright peppermint, medium roast, a touch of cocoa, and gentle bourbon. Great base malts and the peppermint comes across very tastefully despite how in-your-face it is. This sounded like a bad idea—and would be by most other breweries—but trust Alesong to do it right.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
500mL bottle. Pours deep dark brown with a beige head. Tons of spearmint and dark chocolate on the nose. Flavour has a ton of refreshing spearmint, wrapped in dark chocolate and finished off with a nice bourbon character. This was a dubious concept that was executed phenomenally well.
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9
16.9 oz. bottle, pours a deep dark mahogany, like a dark red wine, with a small off-pink head. Nose is full of musty red wine grape skins, plenty of wild yeast, and oak – wonderfully cohesive and complex. Flavour is super complex, with intense red wine grapes, deep oak, plenty of bugs, and more oaky and vinous notes to finish. Beautiful expression of the grapes, oak and bugs. Divine stuff.
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9
500mL bottle. Pours murky dark mahagony with a pinkish head. Lots of earthy, musty character and deep red wine on the nose, some wood. Flavour has tons of musty red wine character, lots of wood, very earthy yeast, super buggy. The complexity and integration is fantastic; this is an excellent beer.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Single Origin from Alesong Brewing & Blending 6 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
500mL bottle, pours a minimally hazed golden with a small white head. Aroma reveals pungent white wine grape skins, plenty of bugs, and a touch of oak. Flavour is complex and yet delicate, with pungent white wine grape skins, complex bugs, oak, and some rustic notes. Oaky, buggy, and vinous. Excellent.
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle.
A- Black color, black liquid, brown head.
A- Coconut, cocoa.
F- Coconut, chocolate, rum, booze, sweet.
P- Medium body, thick texture, average carbonation, boozy finish.
O- Loads of coconut and a fair amout of booze from the rum. Lots of decadent chocolate and a bit sweet. This was pretty nice although the flavors were in your face.