What Evil Lurks (Ghost: Evil)
Adroit Theory Brewing Company
- From:
- Adroit Theory Brewing Company
- Virginia, United States
- Style:
- Russian Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 12.5%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.27 | pDev: 1.41%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 01, 2026
- Added:
- Sep 17, 2024
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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A black as night sipper that tastes as evil as it looks. Slightly boozy with a rich, roasty flavor, semi-dry finish, and full body. Notes of coffee, dark chocolate, and subtle caramel as it warms. Bitterness is perfectly balanced against the malt sweetness for a truly easy drinking "big" beer. Alcohol is virtually undetectable, but it's lurking in the shadows.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by FixedGearSurly from Virginia
4.35/5 rDev +1.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.35/5 rDev +1.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Black as night, roasted malt aroma with a hint of caramel, creamy head, rich malt sweetness, followed by roasty flavors with caramel, dark chocolate, and coffee notes, full-bodied, slightly boozy, silky mouthfeel, and a dry, bitter finish.
Nov 11, 2025
Reviewed by Beejay from Virginia
4.27/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.25
4.27/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.25
A: pitch black in body with a dark brown head.
S: caramel and chocolate up front with a dark berry sweetness.
T: rich dark chocolate. This is luscious. Like a velvet couch made of dark chocolate and caramel. Slight sweetness in the finish, perhaps berry.
M: glorious, luxurious, velvety smooth.
O: this is a knock out
Dec 11, 2024S: caramel and chocolate up front with a dark berry sweetness.
T: rich dark chocolate. This is luscious. Like a velvet couch made of dark chocolate and caramel. Slight sweetness in the finish, perhaps berry.
M: glorious, luxurious, velvety smooth.
O: this is a knock out
Reviewed by Ozzylizard from Pennsylvania
4.18/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.18/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
What Evil Lurks (Ghost Evil)) – from Adroit Theory. Four pack of 16 fl oz cans purchased from Adroit Theory, Purcellville, VA, on pre-order $ 32.96 (including shipping), $ 0.515 /fl oz. Reviewed 17/09/24 (Review 3358). Note that I use DD/MM/YY protocol.
Undated can. Stored at 34 degrees F at home. Served at 54.1 degrees F in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. The final temperature was 58.6 degrees F.
Appearance – 4.25
First pour –Deep Brown (SRM 30), Light barely penetrates.
Body – Black (SRM 40), opaque. Under direct light, same. When rear-lite, same.
Head – Average (Maximum1.5 cm, aggressive center pour), initially tan but wheat as it oxygenates, high density, short retention, leaving a 0.2 cm crown fed by spotty carbonation, and a thin, nearly complete, cap.
Lacing – None.
Aroma – 4.25 – Roasted malt, coffee, and a bit of wood. No hops, no alcohol (12.5 % ABV, according to the label).
Flavor – 4.25 – Slightly sweet with dark fruit, dark chocolate, coffee. The woodiness in the aroma is missing from the flavor. No alcohol. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl. No gastric warming.
Palate – 4 – Full; approaching creamy; lively carbonation.
Style: Follows the style guidelines, as condensed by BA.
Final Impression and summation: 4 (After deducting 0.25 point for an undated personal container) Well, yet another RIS cranked out by Adroit Theory – doesn’t differ significantly from previous examples – adequate to good but not outstanding. Still, it’s fruit fly approved.
Sep 17, 2024Undated can. Stored at 34 degrees F at home. Served at 54.1 degrees F in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. The final temperature was 58.6 degrees F.
Appearance – 4.25
First pour –Deep Brown (SRM 30), Light barely penetrates.
Body – Black (SRM 40), opaque. Under direct light, same. When rear-lite, same.
Head – Average (Maximum1.5 cm, aggressive center pour), initially tan but wheat as it oxygenates, high density, short retention, leaving a 0.2 cm crown fed by spotty carbonation, and a thin, nearly complete, cap.
Lacing – None.
Aroma – 4.25 – Roasted malt, coffee, and a bit of wood. No hops, no alcohol (12.5 % ABV, according to the label).
Flavor – 4.25 – Slightly sweet with dark fruit, dark chocolate, coffee. The woodiness in the aroma is missing from the flavor. No alcohol. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl. No gastric warming.
Palate – 4 – Full; approaching creamy; lively carbonation.
Style: Follows the style guidelines, as condensed by BA.
Final Impression and summation: 4 (After deducting 0.25 point for an undated personal container) Well, yet another RIS cranked out by Adroit Theory – doesn’t differ significantly from previous examples – adequate to good but not outstanding. Still, it’s fruit fly approved.
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