Blue Ridge (SC) XXX Total Eclipse Stout

Brewed by Blue Ridge Brewing Co. (SC)
Style: Stout
Greenville, South Carolina USA

Date: December 23, 2006
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub
Appearance: black with ruby edges, wispy tan head
Aroma: light roasted aroma with a nice sweetness
Body: creamy body
Flavor: lots of roasted flavor, long bitter finish, a bit too much burnt roasted malt in the finish

Date: March 30, 2007
Mode: draft
Source: brewpub
Score: 3.2 to 3.4
picking up some sweet chocolate flavor to balance the roasted, the burnt malt astrigency has been cut back to acceptable levels and replaced with some nice hop flavor and bitterness

Date: April 13, 2008
Mode: draft
Source: brewpub
Score: 3.4 to 3.5
Aroma: dark chocolate aroma with a touch of sourdough
Flavor: the milk chocolate flavor continues to grow with this batch keeping the roasted and bitterness in control, dark chocolate showing up for balance this time rather than the roasted

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 14/20
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+/4

This was a really tasty stout. Above average, but not a great stout in the sense of complexity and being unique. The flavors are very typical of a stout, and the aftertaste is lingering and sweet. It is very easy to drink and that is what I like about it. I would drink another glass. The process that they make there beer is quite unique. Another nice quality is the hoppiness this one has.

dark, and very good. a little sweet, but alas, its still very good. nice chocolate/coffee flavor. the dark beers are always something worth trying, because it seems that its hard to mess one up if you are a professional brewer. damn nice, id order this one no questions asked. sampled at brewgrass 04 on draught.

Draught at the brewpub. Pours brown-black with khaki head. The aroma is slightly smoky with thorough roastiness, some chocolate and toffeee notes. The flavor is clean roastiness with peanut notes and a mild acidity. Bitter chocolate and wood come out in the finish. Definitely on the lighter side, but not too bad.

Appearance: Opaque black body with a small, thin khaki-colored head. Smell: Aroma of unsweetened chocolate and anise with just a dash of black coffee. Taste: Dark chocolate and spicy anise start the taste. Just when a mild sweetness begins to emerge the earthy, roasty bitterness kicks in and last into the finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-thin body. Mild carbonation. Drinkability: Solid for one of those less-than-sweet stouts.

draught. This stout is a deep, near opaque red with a fading tan head. The aroma is of sweet bread with faint coffee and a bit of cola. There’s a bit more roasted barley in the flavor, a pleasant caramel sweetness, a bit of chalk, and burned toast.

Opaque pour, almost no aroma with this. Light roasted malt. Some coffee, roasted/burnt malts, very little if any chocolate. Needed just a little more of pretty much everything you expect from a stout. It was very drinkable however. Of the 3 I sampled, this was probably the best at BRBC.

Dark color, pretty much black, with a medium sized tan head. The first flavor I noticed was coffee then some light roasted maltiness with bitter hops following. I thought this beer was a tad thin and I really could sum it up with coffee and some bitter hops being pretty much what I got out of it. Still, it wasn’t bad at all and definitely a decent drink.