Sour Coffee Stout
The Grizzly Paw Brewing Company
- From:
- The Grizzly Paw Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Stout
- ABV:
- 7.25%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.12 | pDev: 25.64%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 20, 2016
- Added:
- Jul 27, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.65/5 rDev +17%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.65/5 rDev +17%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
341ml bottle - presumably Grizzly Paw's Beamer's Coffee Stout, finished in a Kettle Valley Winery Caboose Cask.
This beer pours a clear, very dark, black-adjacent brown colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, tightly foamy, and somewhat creamy beige head, which leaves some chunky nighttime cloud lace around the glass as it steadily recedes.
It smells of tart red wine barrel notes - musty wood and a cherry/raspberry fruitiness - muted cafe-au-lait, bittersweet chocolate, a twinge of black licorice, and faint earthy, weedy hops. The taste is more tart, yeasty red wine, further dark fruit notes, ethereal coffee grounds, medium-sweet milk chocolate, thin caramel malt, and weak musty, leafy hops.
The carbonation is quite pervasive in its lightly-tendered frothy fizziness (best way I can find to describe it), the body medium-light in weight, and mostly smooth, the tartness not particularly egregious here, though it does seem to thin things out a bit. It finishes on the dry side, the sour fruitiness starting to really wonder what happened to all that coffee and chocolate from earlier on.
One of the better instances of the souring program from this brewery, as the barrel fruitiness meshes well enough with their base coffee stout, and only the coffee becoming an eventual casualty. Easy to drink, especially with the no-show, elevated ABV, but we all know that this isn't really meant to be that sort of thing.
Jul 27, 2015This beer pours a clear, very dark, black-adjacent brown colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, tightly foamy, and somewhat creamy beige head, which leaves some chunky nighttime cloud lace around the glass as it steadily recedes.
It smells of tart red wine barrel notes - musty wood and a cherry/raspberry fruitiness - muted cafe-au-lait, bittersweet chocolate, a twinge of black licorice, and faint earthy, weedy hops. The taste is more tart, yeasty red wine, further dark fruit notes, ethereal coffee grounds, medium-sweet milk chocolate, thin caramel malt, and weak musty, leafy hops.
The carbonation is quite pervasive in its lightly-tendered frothy fizziness (best way I can find to describe it), the body medium-light in weight, and mostly smooth, the tartness not particularly egregious here, though it does seem to thin things out a bit. It finishes on the dry side, the sour fruitiness starting to really wonder what happened to all that coffee and chocolate from earlier on.
One of the better instances of the souring program from this brewery, as the barrel fruitiness meshes well enough with their base coffee stout, and only the coffee becoming an eventual casualty. Easy to drink, especially with the no-show, elevated ABV, but we all know that this isn't really meant to be that sort of thing.
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