ReaperAle Mortality Stout

Brewed by ReaperAle Brewing Company
Style: Foreign Stout
Lake Elsinore, California USA

Pours black with brown accents. Frothy tan head welcomes the first few sips. I’m going to be subtle here now. The nose is complex, smooth malt, mineral, and chocolate. It tastes like a milky malt with a hoppy finish and a hint of honey. The palate is incredibly smooth. It leaves lacing on the glass that’s enough to look at. Now on the sandy side of heaven won’t you take me home.

500ml bottle. Opaque black pour with a thick beige head. Sweet pungent dark fruit aroma. Certainly falls into the Milk Stout/Foreign Stout category. Sugary, with lots of sweet chocolate tones. Really well done for the style. The alcohol level is such that it gives it a nice medium to full body, while retaining a nice semblance of drinkability. The hops perfectly balance the sweet brown sugar flavors. Excellent beer.

22oz. Bottle: Aroma of roasted malt and slight Diacetyl. Poured black in color with a medium-sized, creamy, dense, brown head that diminished but lasted throughout. Opaque. Slightly sparkling. Flavor is light to medium sweet. Tastes of acetic acid, chocolate, coffee, roasted malts, slight cream, and more acetic acid. Light to medium body. Tingly texture. Average to lively carbonation. Acetic acid, chocolate, and roasted malt finish. Way too much acetic acid.

Bottle. Pours a black body with a small off white head. Aroma is mocha, fudge, coffee, some sweet aromas as well. Flavor is coffee, malty, slight smoke, hint of bitter, some off metallic flavor. Bubbly mouth.

Poured a nice black. First sips were heavy with lactic acid, but that quickly and thankfully faded rather quickly turning into a passable, enjoyable stout.

Bottle. Pours with a black body and a mocha colored head that lasts for a little bit. Decent lace. Aroma of licorice, honey biscuit, chocolate, red licorice, and fudge. Light fruity esters. Taste is light coconut, fruit, licorice, and chocolate, roast. Finishes with a leathery smokiness. Feels a touch thin for the style, medium carbonation. Mocha and coffee been finish with a tinge of vanilla. Nice.

black with a khaki head. chocolate, syrup, coffee, dark fruits and vanilla aromas. not bad on the palate with a flavor of coffee and roasted chocolate.

22 oz. bottler served in shaker- poured a solid black when held to a light source, no carbonation, aroma of a charred malt, blood, and evil (’bout time they made a brew), laced like water. Hits the mouth with a high-medium body, malt is burnt but has a coffee linger (interesting), middle retains more of the same, finish makes you ponder 2 minutes to midnight. Overall- not something to actively seek, but if one falls upon your lap, crack that puppy open and see what happens. Enough said.