Highland Black Mocha Stout

Brewed by Highland Brewing Company
Style: Stout
Asheville, North Carolina USA

Poured a dark brown with a tan head. Has hints of coffee, chocolate, and spices. Finished fairly smooth, I noticed it had a slight metallic taste. Overall pretty good for what they were trying to do.

650 mL. Opaque black with a medium, not-lasting head. Aroma is blackstrap molasses and wood smoke. Big flavors of chicory coffee and earthy wood, with slight metallic sour cream and chocolate tones. Palate is medium-bodied, watery, prickly and dry on the end.

Thanks Aracauna. Black pour, small tan head. Aroma of milk chocolate and roasted malts. Flavor is milk chocolate and touch of coffee and roasted malts. The aftertaste kinda leads way to a chalkiness that kills it for me. Creamy mouthfeel and it starts good but that aftertaste has to be rinsed out each time.

Pours a cola black with a medium light brown head. Sweet aroma of malts, cocoa and baking chocolate. Taste is smooth and creamy with hints of sweet chocolate, malts, cocoa and roasted coffee beans. Nice overall.

Bottle (12oz). Looks basically opaque - black with ruby highlights, solid lasting creamy-rocky tan head. Very nice aroma, too - dry chocolate and roast coffee beans, table cream, sweet herbal hops - really very pleasing (7+). The taste follows, a little bit of iron tang to it, but mostly dry roast coffee bean & chocolate malt, bitter finish. Average body, but nicely creamy, good bitterness balancing out the malt sweetness, it finishes slow and balanced. Really well done - will have it again; I imagine this is pretty amazing on nitro.

Room temp bottle. Nice black pour with a modest tan head. Faint coffee aroma, with increasing chocolate as the foam head dissipated. Flavor was very big; a dry chocolate coffee with only a trace of hop. A tad light in body but definitely a beer to repeat. Solid.

Lovely and subtle chocolate aroma. This beer smells wonderful. Looks to be a bit on the thin side, but I will have to wait and see how the palate is. The head was a great chocolate color, also I forgot to mention that the beer had a lovely coffee aroma. Great mixture of smells. Black in color, your typical stout color, but a great color it is. Very thin palate. Great wood flavor, with a hint of chocolate. There are some burnt notes in this beer. The beer is a bit too thin to be GREAT! I usually associate stouts with a thick consistency. A somewhat bitter finish. The hops aren’t that noticeable, except in the aftertaste. Decent beer a little boring.

Jet black pour with a rocky tan head, the aroma is lightly coffee scented. The palate is light and the flavor is dry and of coffee.