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Six Killer Stout
Ironfire Brewing Company
- From:
- Ironfire Brewing Company
- California, United States
- Style:
- American Stout
Ranked #325 - ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- 83
Ranked #23,704 - Avg:
- 3.65 | pDev: 19.18%
- Reviews:
- 15
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 05, 2023
- Added:
- Dec 03, 2012
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 16
Six Killer Stout is not for the faint of heart. Six malts, six hop varieties, six ingredients—it’s a triple threat. Brewed in the style of a traditional stout with 100 percent Arabica Hazelnut coffee beans to get your clips spinning. Feeling strong? Step up to Six Killer and see who's boss!
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Reviewed by StoutSnob40 from California
3.84/5 rDev +5.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
3.84/5 rDev +5.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
This beer has a fantastic aroma of coffee, vanilla and cocoa. The taste is a bit thin (it is only 6%), but it's still pretty solid. I think an imperial version of this would be amazing.
Feb 12, 2017Reviewed by Reema from California
4.42/5 rDev +21.1%
look: 5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.5
4.42/5 rDev +21.1%
look: 5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.5
Serving type: 12 oz can into a pint glass
Pours an absolute pitch black, with crimson brown colors edges that light barely permeates through. Smell is of intense coffee, hops, slight nuttiness, roast, a subtle smokiness, along with an underlying dark chocolate scent. This smells like a straight up good coffee. Taste reflects the smell. Initial black coffee and hops bitterness intermingle, dark chocolate and nuttiness show themselves throughout the drink, aftertaste is slightly hoppy slightly coffee. Feel is thick, almost chewy. Surprised that this is 6%. Overall, this is a great coffee stout that has really intense coffee flavors that make this a winner in my book. (Slightly biased since I love a good cup of black coffee.)
Dec 20, 2016Pours an absolute pitch black, with crimson brown colors edges that light barely permeates through. Smell is of intense coffee, hops, slight nuttiness, roast, a subtle smokiness, along with an underlying dark chocolate scent. This smells like a straight up good coffee. Taste reflects the smell. Initial black coffee and hops bitterness intermingle, dark chocolate and nuttiness show themselves throughout the drink, aftertaste is slightly hoppy slightly coffee. Feel is thick, almost chewy. Surprised that this is 6%. Overall, this is a great coffee stout that has really intense coffee flavors that make this a winner in my book. (Slightly biased since I love a good cup of black coffee.)
Reviewed by Treyliff from West Virginia
4.06/5 rDev +11.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
4.06/5 rDev +11.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
22oz bottle poured into a snifter
Pours pitch black with a small foamy khaki colored head that retains decently. Smell is if straight hazelnut, the most hazelnut I've ever smelled in a beer. Underlying chocolate and smoky malt. Taste follows the nose with a burst of hazelnut coffee, followed by notes of chocolate, char & roasted grains, a hint of vanilla. Mouthfeel is somewhat thin and foamy. Certainly a winner for anyone that likes hazelnut flavored coffee.
Dec 29, 2015Pours pitch black with a small foamy khaki colored head that retains decently. Smell is if straight hazelnut, the most hazelnut I've ever smelled in a beer. Underlying chocolate and smoky malt. Taste follows the nose with a burst of hazelnut coffee, followed by notes of chocolate, char & roasted grains, a hint of vanilla. Mouthfeel is somewhat thin and foamy. Certainly a winner for anyone that likes hazelnut flavored coffee.
Reviewed by VonMisfit from California
2.53/5 rDev -30.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 3
2.53/5 rDev -30.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 3
Bottle design is about the only thing this stout has got going for it. Bitter, sour and thin. Possibly overloaded with coffee. I was not impressed on any level.
Oct 02, 2015Rated by IGOTASIXPACK from California
3.97/5 rDev +8.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.97/5 rDev +8.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
22 oz bottle. Dark deep color. Rich deep Amber head. Sweet scent. Sweet on the mouth and coffee on the finish. Not too much. Rich deep beer. Try it.
Aug 05, 2015Reviewed by biegaman from Canada (ON)
4.16/5 rDev +14%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.16/5 rDev +14%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Six Killer Stout is brewed with coffee and, sure enough, is a dead-ringer for the stuff; like your average cup of Joe this is black, inky-looking and, for the most part, flat (allowing for a little bit of brownish foam and the odd bubble, naturally). The fact it concedes not a single highlight even held directly to the bulb says something...
Here's a bouquet that will wake you up. Each sniff opens your eyes wider and wider. Instant rejuvenation. Obvious gianduja and cappuccino smells aside, this aroma strongly resembles roasted peanut skins and is chockablock with milk chocolate and peanut butter flavour. Frankly, it smells like an old-fashioned chocolate malt shake.
Despite a fantastic aroma, the taste is truly an epiphany. Turns out arabica hazelnut beans offer a flavour that's milky, malty, and mildly chocolaty with a brief but intense jolt of roasted coffee and a lasting, notably nutty aftertaste as well as a small teaspoon of cinnamon. If I could get the recipe in powdered form and mix it with hot water I would.
Coffee stouts tend to be divisive - recipes either include too much or too little coffee depending on who's drinking them. This one, however, should please all parties; there's plenty of steeped, roasted bean astringency but also a chocolaty, fairly sweet lactose-like chaser on the finish. Everybody's happy!
Six Killer Stout is deadly stuff - it offers the depth and richness of an Imperial Stout but the irresistible, easy drinkability of a dry stout. I don't know what kind of beer Ironfield was turning out prior to 2014 but, as this bottle strongly suggests, they've really turned things around since then. This one hit the bulls-eye so far as I'm concerned.
Jul 25, 2015Here's a bouquet that will wake you up. Each sniff opens your eyes wider and wider. Instant rejuvenation. Obvious gianduja and cappuccino smells aside, this aroma strongly resembles roasted peanut skins and is chockablock with milk chocolate and peanut butter flavour. Frankly, it smells like an old-fashioned chocolate malt shake.
Despite a fantastic aroma, the taste is truly an epiphany. Turns out arabica hazelnut beans offer a flavour that's milky, malty, and mildly chocolaty with a brief but intense jolt of roasted coffee and a lasting, notably nutty aftertaste as well as a small teaspoon of cinnamon. If I could get the recipe in powdered form and mix it with hot water I would.
Coffee stouts tend to be divisive - recipes either include too much or too little coffee depending on who's drinking them. This one, however, should please all parties; there's plenty of steeped, roasted bean astringency but also a chocolaty, fairly sweet lactose-like chaser on the finish. Everybody's happy!
Six Killer Stout is deadly stuff - it offers the depth and richness of an Imperial Stout but the irresistible, easy drinkability of a dry stout. I don't know what kind of beer Ironfield was turning out prior to 2014 but, as this bottle strongly suggests, they've really turned things around since then. This one hit the bulls-eye so far as I'm concerned.
Rated by Furlinator from California
3.5/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
A fairly standard coffee stout.
Jul 01, 2015
Six Killer Stout from Ironfire Brewing Company
Beer rating:
83 out of
100 with
62 ratings
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