Flat Earth Black Helicopter

Brewed by Flat Earth Brewing Company
Style: Stout
St. Paul, Minnesota USA

Pours a thick black brown with a chocolate colored head. Aroma is like smelling freshly ground coffee with a bean roaster going in the background. Flavor is full city coffee with cashews and almonds. Body is light with quite a bit of carbonation.

750ml Bottle: Aroma of bitter coffee, roasted malts, slight chocolate, slight lactose, slight oats, and a hint of hops. Poured pitch black in color with a small, creamy, brown head that lasted throughout. Opaque. Very sparkling. Flavor is slightly sweet and lightly bitter. Tastes of coffee, light cocoa, roasted malts, oats, slight lactose, slight hops, and a hint of tar. Medium body. Slightly thin, tingly texture. Average to lively carbonation. Lightly bitter, roasted malt, bitter coffee, and slight chocolate finish.

750mL bottle. Poured deep brown with a creamy, uniform cap of beige head. The aroma picked up sweeter coffee, vanilla beans, and toasted dark chocolate backed by some black patent and fresh earthy character.. as it warmed up, a definite sour undertone came through. The flavor had a whole lot more of the metallic and lactic sourness the whole way through.. the same sweeter coffee was there, but it was masked by the sourness and milky sugars.. some cocoa powder and vanilla peeked through on the sour, dry, grainy finish. Medium-bodied and well-carbonated on the palate.. the acidity hurt the flow and muted some of the intriguing components.. this was either not well executed or it had a bit of infection.

Lame milk stout flavor, good once, but I’d rather drink guinness. old habits and all. Bottle from a tasting at the house of chris Montelius

JW77 provided this bottle. Good stuff. Dark brown pour with loads of coffee and roasted malt. Flavor is a coffee blast. Maybe a hint of cocoa. Good shit. Thanks JW.

Bottle Pours out a brown topped with a tan head. Aroma was pretty nice strong black coffee. Taste was more of the coffee and some dark bitter chocolate. Pretty thin thanks ditmier.

From the Jug at the GABF Colorado Convention Center, Denver 09/10/2008 Strong coffee aroma. Beige head. Black smooth on the palate and slightly fruity with some dryness in a crisp full coffee roast finish.

Pours a very nice dark brown, nearly black except when held in the light. The head, while turning into a layer of crown, does seem to stick around for a while. The mocha colored goodness looks like it is trying desperately to cling to the side of the glass, but likely to my not quite beer clean glass, is having some difficulty. Scent is coffee beans up front, roasted malt, and chocolate very hidden in the back. This smells like a good cup of fresh coffee. No hint of booze or any hops. Taste, unfortunately, is going to be a huge sticking point for me. This is coffee, through and through, and thats it. The coffee taste is good, but this is incredibly one dimensional after that. Mouth is a bit on the thin and bubby side, I prefer my stouts to be thick and damn near flat. This is going to be like drinking a cup of coffee, and I’m happy to have tried it once, but won’t go out of my way to revisit.