Uroboros Stout
Anthem Brewing Company

Has a brilliant presentation with a thick layer of dark tan head that settles gently atop this dark brown brew.

Aroma is rich with ripe and sweet dark fruits, chocolate cake, taffy, persimmon, subtle oak and deep down phenols. Is this barrel aged? Don't think so. But could almost pass for being so.

Taste is warming with plenty of dark fruitiness, grain and chocolate. Soft up front with a certain crispness at the end. Alcohol is blanketed with the fruit and chocolate. Medium bodied and smooth through and through.

All beer-style semantics aside, this is one of the tastiest beers I've had in a while, so I could give a hoot what style it is or is trying to be. Just pour me another.

Visiting a new city I always drink local. On tap at Eddie’s - Chisholm Creek. Deep, dark brown in the glass with a small head of foam, and a very subtle smoky hint in the nose. The flavor was rich, roasted malt with a very nice, surprising, hop bitterness. This was a very good choice. And it did not taste like an 8.5% ABV beer. There was no hint of alcohol in the flavor. This could be a very dangerous beer. ;) I would pick it again.

 

 

 

Poured from the can into a pint glass. Canning date 11/16/19, tasted 1/1/20.

Pours a dark black color with a small tan head. Head retains well even from the can. A bit of lacing is left here and there.

Aroma is toasty with a bit of chocolate and something sweeter I cannot quite make out. Maybe dark berries of some kind?

Taste is mainly chocolate with some roasted malt. Some spices and nuts present as well. Maybe some cinnamon? The caramelized sugars show themselves towards the end. Finish is quite long and dominated by roast and coffee flavors. Complex, even more so than my palate can detect as of yet, but we’ll balanced.

Feel is, in a word, pleasant. Somewhere between medium and full bodied. Smooth and easy to drink. Easier on the stomach than many stouts I have tried.

Overall, a good stout. Fair price for the quality - I paid $10.99 plus tax for 6 12 oz cans.

 

 

This is a great stout. I would give it a 5 if it was in a nitro can. Awesome flavor.

 

 

 

Dark multi coffee taste, with a twange at the end it'll keep you guessing.

Taste rating in words: it's a race where you think you know the winner, but right at the end someone sprints ahead and wins the gold

 

I first encountered this beverage at Flip's Wine Bar and Trattoria, an Oklahoma City landmark. My wife and I stopped in for a late lunch and I asked the waiter if they had anything dark and local on tap. He wasn't sure how to pronounce the name of this creation yet when he brought it to the table and I took a sip I thought to myself: Now THIS is what "beer" is all about. A few weeks later, we visited the brewery where it is made. All I can say is that--in my opinion only--I was equally impressed with the levels of knowledge and skill that go into the making of this product. From reading other reviews it is obvious that I am not a "Beer Snob" yet, to me, this brew could have been named Benchmark. The only reason I didn't give it 5s across the board is because I haven't yet enjoyed the Perfect Beer.

I don't care if it's a belgian style; the acidity of this brew is absolutely disgusting. I've had sours that were not this sour. Shandies. Lemon-lime flavored gross bulls--t, and many, many wheat beers, that were not as acidic as this beer. I don't use this phrase lightly, because I know everyone's palette and tastes are different, but this brew is godawful. While admittedly, I prefer less tart stouts, anyone who has any kind of taste for stouts is going to shake their head and decline this. I had to use it in a orange flavored mixed drink just to make it palatable, because nowhere in the flavor profile does the acidity have anything to compliment it. It doesn't taste of lemon, orange, bubblegum, or anything that you'd associate with this extremely potent sour flavor, so I have to liken it to something like.... if someone dropped a shot of vinegar into your morning coffee. This goes beyond "belgian style", alright? Far beyond. I am an avid lover of belgians, and it's actually why I picked up this stout. But even if you like belgians and sours, this still probably isn't the drink for you. I don't know what stout everyone else here has been rating, because I don't understand how everyone else has failed to take into account one mind-blowingly important factor.... BALANCE. Tart is good... in balance. Dark and bitter and roasty toasty flavors, are all good... in balance. This is a grotesque display of a complete lack of knowledge of balance of flavors. Based on this brew, I would rather drink water than anything else by Anthem. If you're in Oklahoma City looking for local beers, stick to COOP. I don't love everything COOP has to offer, but none of them are bad. This is just... bad. If you sat me down and the only two beverages in front of me were a bud lite or this beer, I would pick the bud light. At least the bud light is watery enough for me to chug it down without tasting much.

The saddest thing about this beer is that the flavors, the oats, the chocolate malt, the belgian yeast are all really good until you get that face-slapping acidity. If they could somehow make this less preposterously sour, it would be a really nice beer.

 

Look - super dark as expected but with a great lasting tan head
Smell - toasted chocolate milk with dark fruit
Taste - toasted Malta, dark chocolate but the other carmalized sugars
Feel - medium body and creamy
Overall - pretty good robust stout

My second Oklahoma beer of the day. Pours as dark as motor oil with a deep tan head. Has a strange smell and a deep flavor that's hard to put a finger on maybe bitter chocolate? It's smooth and creamy like a stout should be but has a hard aftertaste. After a second taste I upgraded it some it's really good!

This is what ends up happening when the brewers of Anthem can't make up their mind whether to brew an imperial stout or a Belgian-style dark, strong ale.

Uroboros is both ambiguous and agreeable while pouring a coffee black color, capped with a rich mocha froth. Complexity oozes from the glass as the nose is rife with roast, spice, fruit and vinous character. Brown sugar, honey and burnt sweet cream comes across with its malty taste early on the palate.

Yet across the tongue, the ale really unfolds with trailing candied sweetness and billowing fruit and spice. Apple, cherry, fig, date and raisin replace the sweetness while a counter of peppercorn, cinnamon, alligator pepper and vinous spice counters with a pop. The beer's underpinning of dark roast coffee, bittersweet chocolate and roasting walnut extend in a long roasty finish.

Medium full on the palate, the beer's turbulent carbonation creates a sensation of lightness in texture when compared to the beer's robust taste. A hint of ash and a subtle wood spice keeps things palatable and digestible while the fruity, spicy and roasty melange trails into a long, toasty aftertaste.