vtafro (475), , New Jersey, USA
| 3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 5/5 | 5/10 | 3/5 | 11/20 | Nov 3, 2009 Well last of the H&M bottles, another beer that doesn’t deliver. Stout has dark pour and some head. Flavors and aromas are ok at best, drinkable but so many other great stouts around.
daknole (2960), Plantation, Florida, USA
| 3.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 | Dec 10, 2009 Dark brown. Light chocolate, roasted malt, and some molasses. Flavor is roasty and lightly chocolate. Just ok. darn1207 (570), Tallahassee, Florida, USA
| 2.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 5/10 | 3/5 | 12/20 | Nov 28, 2009 bomber. black pour with a finger tan head and slight stick. aroma of roasted malts and cocoa. sweet chocolate malt taste and a metallic sour vibe. slickish medium to light texture. bvc (292), Kenmore, Washington, USA
| 2.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 5/10 | 3/5 | 7/20 | Nov 28, 2009 22oz bottle from srizzz. Black chocolate with a small tan head. Nose is a roasty chaulky chocolate and a touch of ash. Tart, roasty, chaulky, some meaty smoke, with more leathery tartness on the end. Not good. riversideAK (2736), Shoreline, Washington, USA
| 2.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 5/10 | 2/5 | 10/20 | Nov 28, 2009 Bitter chocolate on the nose, cardboard or newspaper too. Odd aroma. Pours dark brown with a tan head. Thin bitter chocolate and nutty notes. Acrid mouthfeel. Not good. The shelton bros should stick to importing beer and not brew it anymore. after4ever (2773), Brier, Washington, USA
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 5/5 | 5/10 | 4/5 | 12/20 | Nov 28, 2009 22. pours black with a dense and foamy tan head. some foamy sheets of lace that dont stick around. harsh, roasty, charred nose. creamy medium body with some prickly carb, but not much of it. ashy, roasty, charred mid palate. long dirty ashtray finish. Magicdave6 (5531), London, Greater London, England
| 2.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 3/5 | 5/10 | 3/5 | 11/20 | Nov 24, 2009 Bottle at Chris_o’s "smash Kook’s granny tasting". Alround rating: Roasty, bitter dryness from the roasty malt, small chocolate note, but nothing really keeping me going. thefle (113), , New Jersey, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 10/10 | 5/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 12/20 | Nov 23, 2009 very good stout. At first it starts out incredibly roasty (if thats a word) after a while it becomes a bit vanilla like (which i didn’t care for) overall very good stout definitely try Heathen (802), Riverside, New Jersey, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 5/5 | 7/10 | 2/5 | 14/20 | Nov 17, 2009 THOUGHTS: Not really like the foreign stouts I’m used to, but a nice beer. Not as sweet a a foreign stout should be. A little watered down, but still pretty good. Not decadent enough. Looked great, smelled pretty good, tasted OK, and felt pretty bad. A little too one-sided. Not the two-headed beast it claimed to be, but a decent beer.
TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a dark brown that was opaque, black in the glass with and average, light brown to tan head that mostly diminished. The aroma was moderate to heavy chocolate syrup and cocoa; chocolate milk, with a hint of coffee and a hint of dark fruit. The initial flavor was sweet, a little bitter and acidic; while the finish was fairly bitter and acidic with a short to average duration. There was cocoa, some bitter hops, a little citrus. It was nice, but seemed watered down. The medium body was a little oily, but also a little creamy and also somewhat watery and then slightly dry at the end. It had lightly fizzy carbonation and a lightly astringent, slightly metallic and lightly dry finish.
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