Pisgah Valdez

Pours dark brown with a light brown head. Smells of coffee, some chocolate, roasty. Tastes of coffee grinds, some nutty hints. Not balanced.

Deep brown almost black with light tan head and lace. Aroma is big coffee. Coffee, dry flavor, medium malt bitter finish. A tad thin but very nice carbonation.

Stfun with a great bonus! Nearly a black pour. Tan head. Coffee galore! chocolate makes its appearance as well. Roasted and a bit of bittnerness. Nice damn beer.

750 mL bottle shared at Logan’s 2009 pre-GABF Party. Black pour with a light tan head. Big, coffee aroma. Coffee and dark chocolate flavors. It’s crazy that I had to go all the way to Denver to try a beer brewed in my home state but this is really excellent.

22 oz bottle acquired via trade. Poured out a deep brown, nearly black with a hefty tan head. This bottle was actually quite the gusher, which you don’t see every day from a stout. The aroma was coffee, coffee, coffee with a light bit of chocolate and some roasted malt. The flavor was also hefty coffee, with the chocolate, roasted malts and a wee bit of smokiness lingering in the background. This beer was a little too carbonated for me and had too thin a mouthfeel, but it was still tasty. All in all somewhat of a disappointment however. Edit: Forgot to mention that I consumed this with my good friend Juan Valdez, which did make the event a little more special.

Bomber. Pours a dark brown-black with a substantial light brown head. Interesting coffee aroma (like a more fragrant Tanzanian Peaberry) with chocolate and roasted malt. This is a true pleasure to drink with flavors of sweet chocolate, coffee, malt, and a hint of smoke. The rather bitter finish, however, prevents me from rating this higher. On the other hand, this is enjoyable enough to cause a serious distraction when operating heavy machinery such as a supertanker.

Big mocha aroma. Nice dry flavor with a lot of nice rich coffee notes and hints of super dark coffee.

Time to catch up before BCTC. Bottle at CL Rosso release. Thanks to all the RB’ers and BA’s that brought great beer. Chocolate covered esspresso bean aroma. Chocolate roasted coffee bitterness, and then my notes say, "oblgerrhust."