 Wulfstan (434), California, USA
May 27, 2008 Updated: Jun 13, 2008
This, to me, is almost undrinkable. It is black with a medium, tan head that slowly shrinks to a permanent thin top and leaves a little weak lace. The aroma is not bad at first, being burnt leaves, coffee, chocolatye, damp wheat bread, a hint of prunes and steak sauce. However, as it warms, the aroma deteriorates and becomes more steak-saucy. The taste is the real weak point, being turned plums, hints of vinegar, steak sauce, and coffee with the faintest hint of choclate. It’s very sour. it has some silkiness in the feel, but with the one-sided character, this is hardly enough even to give it a good palate.
thejoeshow (106), Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Aug 6, 2008 12 oz bottle. Pours a deep dark brown/black color with a nice mocha tan head that provides moderate lacing. Aroma is sweet chocolate malt with a slight hint of coffee at the end. Smells very tasty. Flavors range from roasty at times to burnt coffee and chocolate. It has a slight astringency in the beginning that grabs my tongue and tries to mess up the whole sip. It does throw me off a bit but not enough. If you can get by that "pointy-ness" it’s a fairly nice beer. Other than that it has a nice mouthfeel and is a fairly easy drinker.
Jwasciuk (181), Greenville, Michigan, USA
Jul 19, 2008 Pours muddy dark black with an average light brown head. Aroma is mderatly malty or dark bread and toasted malts, lightly hoppy and moderatly yeasty of leather. Flavor starts Balanced twords bitter, roasty flavors prodominate and continues till the finish. Light to medium bodied, creamy and lively carbonated. Its just ok.
jason (1500), Easton, Pennsylvania, USA
Jul 16, 2008 Bottle. Poured a nice black body. Aroma is light roast. some sourness. Flavor is lightly sour, choclate, roast and some diacytl. Very thin.
BelgianBeerGal (892), Sabbatical in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Jun 25, 2008 Bottled. Weird stout. Everything seemed normal except this odd sourness to the aroma and flavour. The normal notes of coffee, chocolate and roasted malt were there, but masked by the sour tones.
gpekar (117), USA
Jun 16, 2008 Poured an opaque dark brown with a small tan head that disappeared quickly. The initial aroma was that of sawdust or a freshly cut pine 2 x 4 on a power saw. The beer was very dry and acidic. My initial thought was a bad batch that had soured. I was a trooper and finished the bottle, but it wasn’t enjoyable at all
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