GAB Stout

Bottled at Monk’s Café, Stockholm. Pours out in a dark brown colour with a small beige head. Flat and rather buttery aroma with touches of milky chocolate and burnt malts. Milky and buttery flavour of cocoa and toasted malts. Medium to light-bodied with low carbonation. Metallic and buttery finish with touches of milky chocolate.

Rated:12.03.2008
Bottle brown, 500 ml, extract of wort 13%
Appearance: Pours, deep, brownish red under the light, visually black, all in all very nice body colour, head is initially medium and slowly decraeses to small, frothy in texture (not creamy as in the original stout), head is off-white, cappuccino like in colour, carbonation of body is visually weak and all in all not clearly seen due to its darkness, no head lacing.
Aroma:Yeasty, mild, creamy, aromatic hoppy nose on top that makes it different from earthy hoppy accent of Irish stout, deeper in some burned roastiness, cherry fruit, pulm, bock like aroma, not strong.
Flavour:Texture is wattery with some roastines, ashy accents and slight bitterness, soltyness, tangy malt, a hint of smoke mixed with light hoppy nose, remanding a foreign stout more than original stout. I can’t agree with a lable message: " a real Irish Stout" starting from tha fact that texture is neither dry nor creamy, but simply wattery.
Palate:Body is light to medium, texture is wattery mainly, carbonation is gentle on palate, finis feel is flat, a bit dull, not that fresh.

Near black colored with red hints. Sweet and roasted, even some berries and caramel in aroma, not the best stout aroma here. Medium bodied, watery palate. Flavor is also roasted but still boring with sweetness and slight caramel.

Bottle. A rather dull interpretation of some other Polish "stouts". Medium-brown, small or no head. Aroma of butterscotch, like a dunkel. Taste...weak. Now that I check the other ratings, they all are different. Weird. Maybe I got a bottle of the more boring kind.