Paper City Batch 108

Formerly brewed at Paper City Brewery
Style: Stout
Holyoke, Massachusetts USA

Nutty roasted malt scent. Hints of dark, roasted fruits: prunes, raisins. Reminiscent of a porter and strong ale. Unexpectedly good aroma. More sweet raisins as it warms up. Looks deep purple/red/brown. Head is middling. Slushy brown lace. Good color, not much head. Looks like black coffee. The flavor is a weaker porter/stout flavor. Ashy like cigarettes, tobacco and coffee grounds. Decent but something lacking. Serious burnt cookie finish. The palate is creamy and oily like an imperial stout. A thick, dark oily beer. Solid for sure, but underwhelming.

(bottle - 12 oz) Dark black pour with two inches of fluffy tan foam. Aroma is rich and roasty with a lot of chocolate and toasted malts. Good coffee flavor as well. Flavor is the same. Roasty with tons of coffee and burnt malt flavors at the beginning, moving to a smooth coffee and malt middle and a bitter and roasted coffee finish. Very tasty. This beer is still being made and is an 8% coffee stout.

A free few bottles from the all you can drink brewery night. This poured into my glass with a deep brown , next to black color and a tan head so thick i could have eaten it with a spoon. The smell was roasty malts and the taste was a fulgers cup of coffee served cold. Very bitter coffee and slight bit of chocolate. Slight acidic coffee tasteas well.

12 ounce bottle shared by cdumler. Pours a nearly black color with ruby highlights. Aroma is coffee, roasted malts and caramel. Hops and coffee notes make the taste very bitter. There are caramel, toffe and understated fruity notes as well. Full bodied. No way this is an altbier.

12oz bottle acquired in trade with ppoitras (thanks!). Poured a deeper and clear mahogany color with an averaged sized off white head. Aromas of chocolate, root beer soda, and some dark fruits. Tastes of roast, chocolate, and earthy. Body a tad on the thin side.

Bottle, from Julio’s. Ok aroma. Litely roasty sweet. Cardboard, woody, lite caramel and herbal. Clean reddish orange color, ok head that faded quickly, little to no lacing. Bitter flavor, cardboard, caramel, stale smoke and/or peaty. hint of grapefruit, maybe. Lite body, lite cream mouthfeel, bitter sweet , kind of burnt finish. Eh, it’s in the ballpark, but that stale smoke thing I got I didn’t like

2006 bottle from Julios consumed on 5/30/06.
Initially dark beige-grey head recedes to ring with some very light lacing. Maroon highlights throughout a caramel-mahogany body, with high clarity.
Brown malts are full of light melanoidins and minor roast. Chocolate and date notes provide some sweetness, while the hops are very well-integrated, with light herbal and nutty notes. Though coming together with the oily brown malts and very reserved roast, it produces a very "soily", damp earth-like note. Further breathing/warming allows the roastiness more room to maneuver, with light chocolate covered coffee bean dryness (semi-sweet chocolate) adding a hard edge on the very end.
The first thing that touches the palate is light roastiness, but it deepens in to a very light smokiness. Hops bitterness, with dried herb-notes and some bland nuttiness coast along the edge of the palate, carried on by a brisk, but fairly low carbonation. Hints of caramel sweetness dot the palate, but instead of growing more balanced, the roast provides too much astringency and the beer dries out heavily on the end. Soft herbal notes, nearly soapy, from the hops are on the finish as well, but don’t seem particularly suited to the roast and dry chocolate/crystal malts. No alcohol noted in aroma or flavor. Texture is somewhat loose, but only a slight wateriness. Soily, nutty.