Redhook Double Black Stout

Brewed by Redhook Brewery
Style: Stout
Woodinville, Washington USA

22oz. Bottle - Batch 08-0410: Aroma of chocolate, malts, roasting, coffee, slight smoke, and slight vanilla. Poured very dark brown in color with a dense, rocky, medium-sized, brown/beige head that diminished but lasted throughout. Good lacing. Flavor is light to medium bitter and lightly sweet. Tastes of chocolate, coffee, roasting, slight piney hops, slight tar, and slight vanilla. Medium body. Average texture. Average carbonation. Malty, roasty, chocolate finish.

Pours a dark black that allows some light. 1-2 finger frothy tan head. The nose shows bitter bakers chocolate and coffee, some roast, some caramel and mild diacetyl, grainy. The flavor is bitter chocolate and coffee, literally taste the dark grain, roasty, mildly sweet, some hop character, dry, shows alcohol with warmth. The palate is bitter coffee and chocolate.

Bottle. Clear, but very dark black pour. Fairly light aroma of roasted malt and some chocolate. Flavor also of roasted malt and chocolate, but with more coffee than the aroma.

Black with a cream colored head. Medium to heavy mouthfeel. Pretty much the standard chocolate and coffee stout flavors. Very good and roasty with just the right amount of bitterness. A solid coffee stout, however, I had the worst coffee breath ever after drinking this.

22 oz. bottle, batch 08-0410. Pours an almost opaque, dark brown body with red and cola hues and a brown head. Aroma of roasted malts, molasses, cocoa and coffee. Flavor of cocoa with hints of coffee and roasted malts. Palate is a little on the light side, but not watery; smooth mouthfeel. Slightly weak finish of cocoa and coffee bitterness. Drinkable, but not as complex as I’d hoped.

Pours dark brown in color, with an initially large, but quickly diminishing light tan head. Nose is very simplistic, but actually shows some complexity in the coffee addition, providing hints of chocolate, mocha and espresso. Flavor is lacking body, malt complexity and just seems very simple, filtered and dead. The flavor is completely dominated by the coffee addition, but it isn’t as complex as the nose. This beer basically sucks, lacks depth and balance, is filtered to death, poorly balanced and has no malt complexity.

Pours dark brown, almost black, with tan head. Aroma is a bit musty, with some strong coffee roastiness, molasses, and chalky chocolate notes. Flavor is rather bitter, with a fair bit of burnt malt and chalky chocolate notes. Not much in the way of sweetness up front, but some semi-sweet chocolate notes take hold after it warms up a little. The coffee notes emerge with some oily bitterness- very nice. A little bit of prickly carbonation and some stickiness in the palate. Not bad, and semi-original, but not enough quite enough complexity for an Impy.

Batch 08-0410. Deep brown with translucent reddish edges, medium tan head. Strong coffee aroma with complementary chocolate and roasted malts. Heavy emphasis on coffee in the body, with roasted malts and chocolate, becoming somewhat sweet at warmer temperatures. Thin, woody acidity in the finish. Creamy palate, modest complexity.