Big Boss Aces & Ates Coffee Stout

Brewed by Big Boss Brewing Company
Style: Stout
Raleigh, North Carolina USA

(22oz bottle) Pours a dark brown body with a medium tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, cocoa, toasted rye, coffee, nuts, and smoke. Flavor of coffee, smoke, and roasted malt.

Big thanks to ROBORB for this bottle. Pours dark black with a short lived light tan head. Smell is less of coffee than I expected with a huge unwelcomed sour presence. Ugh...Taste is pretty dull with light roasted malt and coffee flavor, a touch of tartness, and this is actually pretty watery and underwhelming. Thin flavor, and while not as sour in the taste as the smell, the smell was unpleasant and really kills this beer. Smell is sour, taste is watery, body is thin, carbonation is low, and there is no really shining aspect of this beer, unfortunately.

Bottle from emacgee! Thanks. Pours brown with a tan head. Aroma of coffee and some caramel. Flavor is coffee and tart. Not sure but this may have not been in the best condition. Thin and watery.

Bottles from ucusty and JCB. Thanks guys. This one has a straight up coffee and roast aroma. Dark brown, almost black pour with a thin non lasting head. Flavor is tons of coffee and roasted malt. They are being pretty straight forward with this one. A light sweetness comes forward as it warms. Long dry roasty finish. Only complaint is that it might be a little thin.

a fantastic brew .. TONS of roast, but not overly done at all .. pure goodness, smooth drinking and a fun coffee brew... i could drink this at 6am, with bacon and scrambled eggs with 3 kinds of cheese ... the sexual THRILL!!! ... black as a black sheep in tar ... appleblossom is crap!

Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. The smell is very coffee, chocolate, and roasted malts. The color is black to brown. The head is beige colored and is a decent size. The taste is chocolate, malts, roasty, coffee, and dried fruits.

dark opaque black with a medium sized tan head. fudge aroma with notes of coffee. a medium bodied stout. flavor has more fudge and dark chocolate than coffee notes.

22oz bottle courtesy of OldStyleCubFan poured into a snifter. Pours almost completely black in the glass underneath a one inch rocky tan head that dissipates to a small swirl and collar fairly quickly. Lacing is minimal. The aroma is very good with lots of dark roasted chocolate malts with enough coffee to make me notice it, but not enough to overpower everything else. The taste just didn’t live up to the nose for me. It was dominated by a dry tangy bitterness (presumably from espresso) that was fairly offputting. There is some dark roasted malts and hints of coffee and chocolate, but the astringent bitterness is tough to get through. The mouthfeel is velvety smooth with good carbonation and very soft on the palate. I was expecting good things from this one and the smell was nice, however I wasn’t all that impressed with the taste. It seemed fairly one dimensional and that one dimension, coffee, was a little too bitter in its presentation. Anyway, not a bad beer but not one I would go back to.