Pisgah Valdez

Brewed by Pisgah Brewing Company
Style: Stout
Black Mountain, North Carolina USA

Thanks dchmela! Like the black as oil waters of the Alaskan coastline, Valdez pours like something you’d expect to be stuck in seal fur. Like the waters are vacant of marine life, Valdez is vacant of sweetness. Slightly over-roasted and full of coffee, this needs a little more sweetness to balance it out. Dryness and cocoa flavors linger in the mouth long after the medium bodied beer goes down the hatch. Certainly not a bad beer, just slightly too roasted for my tastes.

Courtesy dchmela. The pour yields a deep, dark chocolate brown body with a small, well retained blanket of tan colored foam. Random, spotty lacing marks the glass. The aroma is big and roasty, with dry, dark cocoa and rich, lightly creamed coffee notes. Flavors follow suit, showing that same, beautiful pairing of semi-sweet dark cocoa and bold, roasted espresso. Some earthy hop bitterness further balanced the swetness of the chocolate malts. Straightforward, but delicious. The only major detractor here is the palate, which is substantial enough, but is a good deal overly carbonated. Tasty brew!

Big coffee and chocolate aroma. Dark brown with a tight ring of foam. Roast and coffee flavors, with a medium body. Easy lightly roasted finish.

Sampled from 750 ml bottle during Surly D-Day. Pours an opaque dark brown brew with a creamy beige head that has some nice retention and lacing. Aroma of mostly coffee and dark chocolate that overpowers any dark malts. Taste is medium bodied, very low carbonation with more coffee flavors with a hint of chocolate, vanilla and caramel. Finish has a mild metallic texture with a coffee and dark malt aftertaste.

Strong coffee aroma, milk chocolate, and caramel. Pours black with a cream colored thick head. Coffee coffee cofee flavor, with a hint of caramel. Palate is watery and coffee like. I love coffee flavored beer. But I wish it had more depth.

Bottle. Pours a black with 1 finger creamy brown head. Chocolate, vanilla, caramel malt. Coffee bitter with a dry finish. Toffee, has a slight metallic flavor as it warmed that was off.

Shared by Rciesla. Thanks broski. Pretty straightforward coffee stout. As it warms, finish gets ugly. Better cold.

Bottle at the 2008 pre-Brewers’ Jam warmup. Pours black with amber edges and a thin brown head. The aroma is unapologetically freshly ground coffee (not the beverage, the ground beans). The flavor is very deep, earthy coffee with some distant stout flavors behind it. This is more coffee than beer, really, but I love a high quality coffee, and this hits the mark.