Affogato Stout
Bright Brewery
- From:
- Bright Brewery
- Australia
- Style:
- American Stout
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.59 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 29, 2023
- Added:
- Oct 29, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by AzfromOz from Australia
3.59/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.59/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Birthday gift from the family in August 2023. Drunk in October of that year.
L: Thick, almost solid looking, jet black in the glass, with a thin topping of mocha-coloured head. Multitudes of very fine bubbles race up the sides of the glass from various nucleation points.
S: Upon swirling, my nose is pummeled by the smell of freshly ground coffee. As that note recedes, a creamy vanilla tone takes over, but there never seems to be a point where they're both in balance - it's all coffee one moment, then all vanilla the next. That said, taken on their own, they're mightily expressive.
T: Tastewise, the initial overriding impression is freshly ground coffee, just like with the nose. It's not smooth, milky coffee or a subtle roast; it's in-your-face ground coffee notes. I'm then looking for the lactose, creamy note to come into play, but instead, I get a soda-like, sharp cola note that finishes quite thin and dry. It tastes more like a coffee/cola mix than an affogato. Perhaps the ice cream in the affogato is cola-flavoured? Either way, it's not quite what I expected an affogato-inspired beer to taste like.
M: Mouthfeel is rounded, but not as thick as I'd expect a lactose beer to be, and way more carbonated and expressing more carbonic prickle than I'd expected. As noted above, the finish is thinner and more abrupt than I'd expected.
O: My impression here is that the coffee part has been nailed - I've never come across a beer expressing freshly ground coffee quite so convincingly - but the ice-cream part of the affogato was a miss, with a sharp and thin cola-based note where I had expected smooth, sweet, creamy indulgence. I will take a can of this to my old man, who is a fanatical affogato drinker and see what he thinks. I'll append his thoughts to this when I get them.
Cheers!
#351
Oct 29, 2023L: Thick, almost solid looking, jet black in the glass, with a thin topping of mocha-coloured head. Multitudes of very fine bubbles race up the sides of the glass from various nucleation points.
S: Upon swirling, my nose is pummeled by the smell of freshly ground coffee. As that note recedes, a creamy vanilla tone takes over, but there never seems to be a point where they're both in balance - it's all coffee one moment, then all vanilla the next. That said, taken on their own, they're mightily expressive.
T: Tastewise, the initial overriding impression is freshly ground coffee, just like with the nose. It's not smooth, milky coffee or a subtle roast; it's in-your-face ground coffee notes. I'm then looking for the lactose, creamy note to come into play, but instead, I get a soda-like, sharp cola note that finishes quite thin and dry. It tastes more like a coffee/cola mix than an affogato. Perhaps the ice cream in the affogato is cola-flavoured? Either way, it's not quite what I expected an affogato-inspired beer to taste like.
M: Mouthfeel is rounded, but not as thick as I'd expect a lactose beer to be, and way more carbonated and expressing more carbonic prickle than I'd expected. As noted above, the finish is thinner and more abrupt than I'd expected.
O: My impression here is that the coffee part has been nailed - I've never come across a beer expressing freshly ground coffee quite so convincingly - but the ice-cream part of the affogato was a miss, with a sharp and thin cola-based note where I had expected smooth, sweet, creamy indulgence. I will take a can of this to my old man, who is a fanatical affogato drinker and see what he thinks. I'll append his thoughts to this when I get them.
Cheers!
#351
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