Albino White Stout
Horny Goat Brewing Co.

 

Interestingly, after reading Jmsandberg17's review, I find myself almost at the opposite conclusions.

Color and head are impressive. Mouthfeel is watery. Almost no smell at all. However... the taste is amazing. The chocolate, vanilla, and coffee are beautifully balanced, with a lovely maltiness, that fades very slowly to a pleasant bitter finish. Nothing overpowers another.

It's currently one of my favorite beers.

Pours a slightly cloudy dark yellow-orange with a decent cap of off-white head that recedes to a super thin layer on top. Aroma is very rich with plentiful cocoa, coffee, vanilla, and a bit of roasted malt notes; it's very reminiscent of tiramisu. After the head fades, I get a delicious and potent a syrup aroma, somewhere between maple and vanilla. Flavor, though, is fairly disappointing, checking the normal stout boxes but being quite unremarkable. It largely follows the aroma, but the notes are far weaker and very muddled; there's an interesting note of cacao nib in there, but it can't carry the beer. It doesn't really close out with a normal hop-malt bitterness like most stouts, and has a rather cloying sweetness that develops into an unpleasant aftertaste. I'm way more of a malt guy than a hop guy, but this feels really poorly hopped. Feel is also very mediocre: quite thin body, somewhat foamy, almost slick or slimy?

Can't say I've ever had a beer that looks this amazing and smells this delicious and just drops the ball so hard on the actual drinking experience. I bet this recipe would be awesome for a beer-based soap, air freshener, candle, or cologne, but the actual beer is quite a poor experience.