Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
16oz can thanks to steve pours out black topped with a tan head. Nose is great big sweet coconut vanilla chocolate bourbon barrel booze. Taste is more of the nice sweet chocolate bourbon barrel booze coconut vanilla wow very nice.
Marduk (26467) ticked Morally Compromised from Ellison Brewery + Spirits 5 years ago
Fizzy, citrus, fruity, yeasty, dry, dusty
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle shared at Blind Stout Share. Pours a deep brown to black with a small beige head that lingers. Big bourbon, fudge focused nose with cacao nib, milk chocolate and brownie fudge. Smooth and rich, decadent stout on the palate. Sweet but not overly so. Lots of wood and oak as it warms up on the nose and palate. Smooth finish with a velvet touch. Very impressed.
Blind ranking personal results:
#1 Toppling Goliath - Barrel Slayer
#1 Ellison / Barclay / Watkins - Four Horsemen
#3 Hailstorm - Vlad vs. Zombie vs. Shark (2019)
#4 Cerebral - Here be Monsters (Batch 2 11/2017)
#5 Goose Island - BCBS (2019)
#6 Jackie O's / Side Project - Appervation
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Large can @ Billie’s Bottle Shop. Hazy orange, little white head. Nose is bitter orange, chalk, zest, hay, peel. Taste is bitter peel, orange, low chalk, faint tropical. Doughy low hazy body, solid, pleasant.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Draft at 8 Degrees Plato. Pours a deep brown to almost black with a finger of beige foam that dissipates slowly. Big vanilla, toffee and light chocolate caramel aromas. Bourbon comes out as it warms. More bourbon, toffee and prune. Really enjoyable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Can at THT January. Very hazy yellow golden with white head. Soft papaya, creamy oats, wheat, passion fruit, dry paper, soft grassy. Medium sweet and almost medium bbn itter.medium bodied.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
THT January. Can. Hazy pale yellow. Grassy hoppy oaty. Nice. Moderate sweet and bitter. Medium body and soft carbonation.
Iznogud (14627) reviewed Big Black Stout from Ellison Brewery + Spirits 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Canned, black with beige head. Some roastiness, chocolate, vanilla, cocoa, medium sweetness. Bitterness in finish. Low carbonation. Medium bodied.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Can from 8 Degrees Plato. Pours a clear gold orange with a finger of foam. Grapefruit, pine and toasted caramel malt on the nose. Extreme astringent bitterness with an unpleasant yeast-burn character on the palate. More pine and aggressive, 90s homebrew bitterness on the palate. Lingering bitterness. Lingering bitter finish that kills all nuance in this.