Hazelnut Java Cement Shoe Stout
Hideout Brewing Company

 

Pours black with a thick brown head. Taste is very smooth with lower bitterness. Hints of the hazelnut to start but not much complexity after that.

22 ounce bottle into pint glass, bottled in 8/2016. Pours pitch black color with a 2 finger dense dark brown head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass. Aromas of big hazelnut coffee, milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, toasted dark bread, light vanilla/cream, herbal, and roasted earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt, hazelnut coffee, and light earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big hazelnut coffee, milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, toasted dark bread, light vanilla/cream, herbal, and roasted earthiness. Light herbal/roasted bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of hazelnut coffee, milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, toasted dark bread, light vanilla/cream, and herbal/roasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, hazelnut coffee, and light earthy hop flavors; with a great roasted bitter/sweet balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and medium-plus body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/silky, and lightly chalky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Minimal warming alcohol as expected of 6%. Overall this is a very nice English style coffee stout. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, hazelnut coffee, and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink. A very enjoyable offering.