Night Owl
Tool Shed Brewing
- From:
- Tool Shed Brewing
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Stout
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.15 | pDev: 9.4%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 14, 2014
- Added:
- May 03, 2014
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.68/5 rDev -11.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.68/5 rDev -11.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor - what, all you Calgarians can't get off your collective ass (ok, fine, Facebook) and scribble a few measly words in support of one of your nascent local brewing concerns? I keed, I keed! Anyways, this offering was brewed in conjunction with Big Rock, all to benefit the student brewing program at Olds College - solid, that!
This beer pours a solid black abyss, with bare basal cola highlights, and two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and weirdly rocky beige head, which leaves some nice sudsy low pressure cloud lace around the glass as it evenly recedes.
It smells of rather acrid smoke-tinted - in an almost ashy cigarette butt sense - biscuity and dry bready caramel malt, wet saltine crackers, bitter Italian coffee, and a subtle leafy, earthy, and weedy hoppiness. The taste is dry, chocolate-tinged crackery pale malt, a hint of caramel sweetness that was (or never will be, whatevs), subtle earthy yeast, still rather testy, unfettered coffee beans, ethereal lactic notes, and wriggly earthy, kind of mealy earthy and musty hops. The 14-proof booze does well to sublimate itself amongst it all.
The bubbles are sort of swishy, and barely frothy in their temporary bearing, the body a strangely reserved medium-light weight for the style, just, and tacitly smooth, that dry coffee character apparently not one to be trifled with. It finishes quite dry, the lingering bready malt still beholden to the coffee, seemingly sugar-free cocoa, and increasingly faint, and unfortunately plain earthy hops.
One dry, and pretty much coffee-dominated Yankee stout, the alcohol more or less undetectable, at least until the virtual end game here - but even then, I'm not altogether convinced of its actual potency, as the overall astringency has a way of obfuscating such matters. Still, given that 2 of the 3 parties involved here are worthy of any and all investment in Alberta's craft beer infrastructure, I can't help but suck it up, hold my tongue (just a wee bit), and drink the rest of this with stiff upper lip abandon.
Jun 22, 2014This beer pours a solid black abyss, with bare basal cola highlights, and two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and weirdly rocky beige head, which leaves some nice sudsy low pressure cloud lace around the glass as it evenly recedes.
It smells of rather acrid smoke-tinted - in an almost ashy cigarette butt sense - biscuity and dry bready caramel malt, wet saltine crackers, bitter Italian coffee, and a subtle leafy, earthy, and weedy hoppiness. The taste is dry, chocolate-tinged crackery pale malt, a hint of caramel sweetness that was (or never will be, whatevs), subtle earthy yeast, still rather testy, unfettered coffee beans, ethereal lactic notes, and wriggly earthy, kind of mealy earthy and musty hops. The 14-proof booze does well to sublimate itself amongst it all.
The bubbles are sort of swishy, and barely frothy in their temporary bearing, the body a strangely reserved medium-light weight for the style, just, and tacitly smooth, that dry coffee character apparently not one to be trifled with. It finishes quite dry, the lingering bready malt still beholden to the coffee, seemingly sugar-free cocoa, and increasingly faint, and unfortunately plain earthy hops.
One dry, and pretty much coffee-dominated Yankee stout, the alcohol more or less undetectable, at least until the virtual end game here - but even then, I'm not altogether convinced of its actual potency, as the overall astringency has a way of obfuscating such matters. Still, given that 2 of the 3 parties involved here are worthy of any and all investment in Alberta's craft beer infrastructure, I can't help but suck it up, hold my tongue (just a wee bit), and drink the rest of this with stiff upper lip abandon.
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