The Awakening
Angry Chair Brewing

Black appearance in the glass; thin head, khaki hued. Fairly sweet aroma; milk chocolate with a very slight note of coffee. Outstanding milk chocolate flavor; mild note of coffee in the background. Heavy body; smooth and silky; nice residual sugar feel offset with a light coffee-like dryness.

The can notes list vanilla beans, cocoa, and lactose. I get those elements now that I know they're there, especially the vanilla beans. Anyway, a nice, pleasant coffee stout that is nicely balanced and complex.

Pouring temperature: 44 °F; canning info: n/a
Source: @DoctorZombies

From a 16oz can, undated. (There was a date on the paper four-pack holder but it didn’t survive). Served in a tulip.

Pours chocolate-black with a scant finger of fizzy, coffee colored tan foam. Minimal retention, a thin, fizzy collar and a barely rousable, super-slippery sheet of sudsy lacing.

Nose is roasty and creamy-sweet - aroma of coffee ice cream.

Taste is strong coffee and condensed milk, all slick and slippery. Tasting heavily creamed and sweetened dark, near-burnt perked coffee, prunes and maple, chocolate pudding and vaporous vanilla in the sinuses.

Feel is smooth and slippery, creamy-slick and medium bodied with ample fine, prickly carbonation.

Overall, a mostly clean and serviceable if maybe overly sweet milk stout. There’s a nice contrast between the burnt and bitter coffee character and the sweet slickness of condensed milk. Somewhat more sugary than I’d have preferred, I sipped at this for a good long time before I finally finished it and was able to go brush my teeth.

Canned 3/9/23. Purchased at brewery 4/14/23. Poured at 52°. Dark black body with thin ruby edge; dark brown fizzy head that disappeared quickly leaving thin ring at best and no lacing; no legs on swirl. Strong coffee nose followed by milk chocolate; some vanilla as beer warmed. Sweet milk chocolate entry; bitter roast coffee; a little vanilla as beer warmed; coffee finish. Dusty tongue coating; medium body; moderate minus carbonation; no warmth from 7.4% abv. Overall, tastes like an iced mocha coffee with cream and sugar; long bitter coffee linger; more coffee nose/taste than FBS, and sweeter.

 

 

 

 

Poured a black body with minimal head and no lace. The aroma is strong on the coffee with a mild touch of vanilla as well. Smooth, creamy, medium body with well-hidden booze and smidge of vanilla and chocolate4. The beer is mostly a coffee beer but it is a mild coffee so beer is not too strong.

 

 

 

Tasted in a Rastal Teku from a crowler on June 21, 2019. Coffee milk stout brewed with vanilla beans and cacao nibs. Made with Buddy Brew coffee. Tasty sweet stout.