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Voo Doo
Left Coast Brewing Company
- From:
- Left Coast Brewing Company
- California, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 8.5%
- Score:
- 85
Ranked #21,808 - Avg:
- 3.75 | pDev: 12.27%
- Reviews:
- 126
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 31, 2024
- Added:
- Jan 12, 2011
- Wants:
- 17
- Gots:
- 112
Voo Doo is a full bodied, dark brew that is rich and malty with plenty of roasted barley character. This hearty stout is layered with flavors of roasted barley, chocolate, and coffee coming from the highest quality imported malts. Its creamy long lasting head completes the brew, tempting your taste buds to be spellbound.
39 IBU
39 IBU
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Ratings by NHSTEVE:
Rated by NHSTEVE from New Hampshire
3.5/5 rDev -6.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Jul 02, 2015
3.5/5 rDev -6.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Jul 02, 2015
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho
4.16/5 rDev +10.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.16/5 rDev +10.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Once you get past the cheesy label, a great beer awaits. Dark murky brown to black in color, with thin beige head, creamy but not substantial like an Guinness. Nose is coffee, roast grains, dark chocolate, burnt toast. Taste is roast grains with a tinge of bitterness, deep burnt flavor lingers. Slick and velvety, goes down smooth.
Jan 31, 2024Reviewed by BillAfromSoCal from California
4.09/5 rDev +9.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.09/5 rDev +9.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
I think this is an underrated, affordable American stout. The 16 oz can marked "best when enjoyed within 30 days of purchase" and showing no canning date cost me about $3.10 and yielded a really nice stout with un-subtle flavors of coffee first, cocoa/chocolate second, and roasted grains third. I think the flavors would have been even bolder if I had let it warm up a bit first from fridge temperature. Pours a very dark brown/off black color with about 1/2 finger of tan head that slows recedes to leave a thin film of foam with a thicker ring of foam at the glass edge. The smell is less distinct that the flavor. No real distinct bitterness, very smooth with body in about the mid range for a stout. Mild carbonation in mouthfeel. I'm going back to buy more of this....
Nov 17, 2021Reviewed by blazerkor from Nevada
3.96/5 rDev +5.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.96/5 rDev +5.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
The pour is beautiful. A dark... some would say stout color with a thick tan head. It smells beery, with a stout scent and notes of dark chocolate. The taste is bitter up front with coffee notes. It has a smooth, creamy mouthfeel with just a light bit of fizzy carbonation. The finish is alcoholic, sweet and then bitter with pleasant chocolate notes coming back in and lingering.
Dec 29, 2020Rated by Sellen from Connecticut
3.43/5 rDev -8.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.43/5 rDev -8.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
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Jun 25, 2020Rated by NeilSilber1 from California
4.12/5 rDev +9.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.25
4.12/5 rDev +9.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.25
Pours dark chocolate with light fading head, sweet heavy malty notes and chocolate american stout character.
Dec 29, 2018Reviewed by TooManyGlasses from Canada (AB)
3.73/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Had this several years ago in Hawaii and remember really liking - this time good but not great. 650 ml bottle split 2 ways. Pours a deep black with scant mocha head (did I not pour aggressively enough?). Aroma is strong on the roasted malt, burnt coffee - some dark chocolate. Taste follows - espresso, bitter dark chocolate but the roasty bitterness just seemed off balance with nothing to smooth out that bitterness. Really not a bad beer but just a little off balance.
Aug 07, 2018
Voo Doo from Left Coast Brewing Company
Beer rating:
85 out of
100 with
607 ratings
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