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Flat Earth Black Helicopter 3.46 56

Flat Earth Black Helicopter


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563.54/5.03.46/5.05%80.5English pint
Commercial Description:
Black Helicopter is a coffee oatmeal stout made with locally roasted Columbia coffee beans from Paradise roasters in Ramsey, MN. What makes this coffee beer different you ask? This is the first beer of its kind made with coffee brewed on a Clover machine, which uses a unique mechanism for extracting the subtle and complex flavors of a coffee bean. Don’t miss this chance to taste this one of a kind brew.
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 Tripplebrew (502), Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/57/102/515/20

Nov 8, 2009  
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.

 BVery (602), Burnsville, Minnesota, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/514/20
Dec 28, 2009  
Tap. Dark brown to black pour. Roasty coffee and chocolate all over the nose and taste, very tasty stuff.


 Sparky27 (1608), Phoenix, Arizona, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Dec 17, 2009  
750ml courtesy of skyview – thanks Bob! Pours deep brown almost black with a 2 finger tan head that faded fast. The nose is coffee grounds, charred malt and like cocoa. The taste is sour spent coffee grounds upfront followed by chocolate and dark roast coffee in the finish. Medium mouthfeel. An OK coffee stout. The sourness at upfront throws it off a bit.


 michael-pollack (2739), King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Oct 29, 2009  
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.


 Ughsmash (4079), Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/512/20
Oct 27, 2009  
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.


 Rustyham (597), miami, Florida, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/59/20
Sep 11, 2009  
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


 daknole (3027), Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/516/20
Sep 7, 2009  
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.


 BuckeyeBoy (1689), Boise, Idaho, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/513/20
Aug 28, 2009  
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.



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