Mycorrhiza Visions
Adroit Theory Brewing Company

Pours black no light getting thru this baby small coco colored head with spotty lace.

Aroma is chocolate, nuttiness, coconut. caramel, smooth roasted notes, light licorice hints, after sitting a while picking up molasses and peat hints maybe like the sweetness grows as it sits.

Taste is smooth roasted malts, chocolate, good caramel sweetness, coconut, earthy peat mingled with light hazelnut. Smooth and tasty 13% is no where to be found on this baby.

Mouthfeel is approaching full with smooth mellow carbonation.

Overall a nice tasty big ass stout.

2024-05-10
500ml bottle served in a big snifter. Don't see a date on it. @ozzylizard sent it to me during NBS BIF #18.

Pours very dark, very thick, dark brown head, maybe about a half centimeter thick. Smell is chocolate cake and black licorice. Something sweet, maybe molasses or burnt caramel.

Taste is interesting and quite pleasant. Marshmallow and black licorice, sweetened dark chocolate, roasty bitterness is there but in the background. There's another source of bitterness, but I'm not sure I can identify it very clearly. Coffee is the closest that came to mind.

Mouthfeel is thick and creamy. Overall, this is very nice.

neat beer here, i have not had nearly enough from these guys, this one is exciting. toasted coconut, coffee, and hazelnuts, lots of character, not so much body as a lot of these have, and even almost thin to me in comparison with some others in this style range had in close proximity, but i find myself liking that aspect, its huge flavor without being boiled for two days or anything, no issue there. i also like it being less sweet than has gotten common in these big stouts, it smells nutty in a cool way, roasty and bitter which i like, deep cocoa, and just a little richness from the toasted coconut with the middle malts, but this isnt dessert beer in the modern sense, its stout before adjuncts, and thats neat. hazelnut seems natural in the flavor, the coffee hits as dark roasted and quite intense, yet not acidic or lingering too late on the swallow, not sharp, cozy, and nice there with a little alcohol peaking through. i get some smoke on this, some black fig, and some deep cocoa, and less of the coconut overall than anticipated, but its surely present. i like the dark layers weaving together, and i like it not being so heavy. quite bitter through much of it, which is better i think than the alternative, and this has a lot of intrigue, it stands out from the crowd, and the hazelnut aspect is natural and delicious in here, easy to appreciate, slightly enriching but also adding some apparent bitterness of its own. i need to make a better effort to source beer from these guys, always unique and good in my limited experience...

Mycorrhiza Visions – from Adroit Theory Brewing. Purchased from Adroit Theory online, 500 mL bottle, $ 33.99/bottle (Including shipping), $2.01/fl oz. Reviewed 22/01/24 (Review 3227). Note that I use DD/MM/YY protocol.
Undated bottle. Stored at 34 degrees at home. Served at 57.2 degrees F in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. The final temperature was 60.8 degrees F.
Appearance – 4
First pour – Brown (SRM 20), hazy.
Body – Black (SRM 40), opaque. Under direct light, same. When rear-lite, light penetration at the bottom edge (ruby) and the top edge (goldenrod).
Head - Average (Maximum 3.8 cm, aggressive center pour), brown sugar, high density, short retention, leaving a 0.2 cm crown and a thin partial cap.
Lacing – Poor. Narrow band of nearly invisible bubbles with both tiny stalactites and stalagmites.
Aroma – 4 – Initial hint of bleu cheese, but this quickly fades to nothing and is replaced by roasted chocolate malt and (coffee?). No yeast, no hops, no alcohol (13 % ABV as marked on the label).
Flavor – 4 – Begins with roasted chocolate malt. No yeast, no hops. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl. No ethanol. Slight gastric warming. Ends with
Palate – 4 – Full; watery; lively but non-aggressive carbonation.
Final impression and summation: 3.75 (After deducting 0.25 point for undated personal container) Unremarkable RIS, ridiculously high price point. One and done.