Caracu Cerveja Escura

Brewed by InBev Brasil
Style: Foreign Stout
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Accidentally discarded my rating, but since I only had one and I remember enough I’m scoring it anyway. Doesn’t taste as hoppy as most stouts, but isn’t too sweet either. A pleasant dark beer, that could be drank like a session beer. Good stuff. No. 1 Brazilian beer I’ve had.

Bottle. Pours very dark and cloudy with a brown head. Aroma is coffe and chocolate. Flavor is roasted malt, caramel, coffe and very sweet. Notes of alcohol.

Tasted in Vai Tomar no Kuka, heavy metal/chopper bar in Goiânia, after a rock´n roll festival. We had them a classic bull label brazilian black beer. It´s a very dark cloudy black beer with a small but creamy brown head. Sugar and caramel aroma with a notes of cola, chocolate and malted cereals. Coffee, roasted malt, caramel and a lot of sugar flavors. It´s a sugar-caramel beer? Sweet, sweet aftertaste. Good for pregnant, that is truth!

Bottled. Aroma of chocolat with a hint of cola. Very dark brown, light brown head, fair lace. Very sweet, almost sugary, chocolat, hint of coffee. Bit sandy mouthfeel yet sticky.

Dark, mahogany body. Small off-white head. Sweet, smokey, coffe aroma--smoothly alcoholic. Chalky aftertaste. Sweet flavor, traces of toasted cereals, figes, prunes. Slightly bitter end.<!-- br --><!-- br --><!-- FONT SIZE=1 -->Bottle shared with <!-- a href = http://www.ratebeer.com/View-User-30044.htm --> Panzerfaust <!-- /a -->and <!-- a href = http://ratebeer.com/ViewUser.asp?UserID=35128 --> Nigredo <!-- /a --> <!-- /FONT --><!-- br -->

Pours a very dark and cloudy black color with some red undertones. The head is light brown with good retention and leaves a nice film and lacing. Impressive smokey aroma. It seems like a combination of a stout and a smoked beer (I haven’t tasted a Rauchbier yet). There are notes of prunes, figs and hints of coffee. Tobacco is also present. Flavor is sweet and has traces of sweetened coffee, mokka, figs and tobacco smoke. Sweet with almost no bitterness, but very roasty character. Weird but pleasant. Soft, velvety palate. Just a little more thickness would help this to be great. Good sweet finish and aftertaste. I feel the smoke for minutes after sipping this. A little more bitterness to offset the sweetness would make this beer world class. So Brazil has its highlights too....many thanks to my brother for this one.

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