Close Encounter Hopped Up Stout
Pipeworks Brewing Co.
- From:
- Pipeworks Brewing Co.
- Illinois, United States
- Style:
- American Stout
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- 89
- Avg:
- 4.03 | pDev: 9.18%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 09, 2020
- Added:
- Feb 19, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 9
SCORE
89
Very Good
89
Very Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by feloniousmonk from Minnesota
4.01/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.01/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Black as night, under a solid, lasting dark tan head with random dotting.
Aroma: Hops aplenty in the nose, grassy notes meshing with chocolate malt. Sometime I like this, sometimes I don't. So far, I like it.
Taste: From the start, the palate is greeted with alert and lively hops, blended with dark malts. Deep and full-bodied. And remarkably smooth. Flavors of coffee, cocoa, and charcoal mix well in the mouth, under a blanker of bittersweet hoppitude.
Long finish, hangs hard on the palate, warm, bittersweet, delicious, and satisfying.
Feb 09, 2020Aroma: Hops aplenty in the nose, grassy notes meshing with chocolate malt. Sometime I like this, sometimes I don't. So far, I like it.
Taste: From the start, the palate is greeted with alert and lively hops, blended with dark malts. Deep and full-bodied. And remarkably smooth. Flavors of coffee, cocoa, and charcoal mix well in the mouth, under a blanker of bittersweet hoppitude.
Long finish, hangs hard on the palate, warm, bittersweet, delicious, and satisfying.
Reviewed by GuyFawkes from Illinois
3.98/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.98/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
2015 vintage; drank 1/21/15 @ the Yarchives.
Black/brown appearance.
A rough pour yielded a nice tan head; a curtain of lace.
Orange citrus & roasted coffee bean notes in the nose.
Creamy, medium thick mouthfeel.
Orange citrus & roasted coffee bean flavors up front; creamy oat notes on the finish. Stout my ass, this is a(n above average) black IPA.
Feb 26, 2019Black/brown appearance.
A rough pour yielded a nice tan head; a curtain of lace.
Orange citrus & roasted coffee bean notes in the nose.
Creamy, medium thick mouthfeel.
Orange citrus & roasted coffee bean flavors up front; creamy oat notes on the finish. Stout my ass, this is a(n above average) black IPA.
Reviewed by Sabtos from Ohio
3.94/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.94/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Blackish brown with a tan, foamy head.
Roasty and milky aromas up front, with minty hops and lots of roasted coffee aromas following up.
Nicely roasty and milky flavors at first, with bitter spice of pine coming in second, providing a very dry finish. After a short while it becomes very apparent that this really is exceptionally roasty. With all the hopped-up elements, the level of roasted flavors is big enough to keep this in stout territory.
Very frothy mouthfeel.
May 13, 2016Roasty and milky aromas up front, with minty hops and lots of roasted coffee aromas following up.
Nicely roasty and milky flavors at first, with bitter spice of pine coming in second, providing a very dry finish. After a short while it becomes very apparent that this really is exceptionally roasty. With all the hopped-up elements, the level of roasted flavors is big enough to keep this in stout territory.
Very frothy mouthfeel.
Reviewed by Wasatch from Colorado
4.5/5 rDev +11.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.5/5 rDev +11.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
16 oz. Can
Pours a very nice black color, very nice carbonation, with a very nice thick/creamy two-finger plus light tan head, which leaves some very nice thick/creamy sticky lacing behind. The nose is malty, roasty/nutty, very nice chocolate/toffee notes. The taste is malty, nice touch of roast/nut, very nice chocolate/toffee notes. Medium body. Overall, another tasty brew from PBC. Recommended!
Mar 06, 2016Pours a very nice black color, very nice carbonation, with a very nice thick/creamy two-finger plus light tan head, which leaves some very nice thick/creamy sticky lacing behind. The nose is malty, roasty/nutty, very nice chocolate/toffee notes. The taste is malty, nice touch of roast/nut, very nice chocolate/toffee notes. Medium body. Overall, another tasty brew from PBC. Recommended!
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