Seven Deadly Layers
Other Half Brewing - Center Street

Sweet, sweet, and even sweeter. You can literally smell sweetness in this one, together with notes of nuts, chocolate and cookies. Alcohol is well hidden, and the taste leaves a rather good impression.

500ml bottle at share. Near black pour, a few bubbles, then flat. Booze hits the nose first, strong, not too much else detectable behind it. While the alcohol is still singing the nosehairs, taste brings dark, sweet chocolate flavors and other candy bar notes. Slick, smooth, full, and very potent.

 

 

This is wild one. Like, remember that girl you dated who was too into Twilight? Yeah, it’s that wild.

It’s a heavy ass beer like Rosanne after breakfast. Massive thick pour like Standard Oil. Flavor is huge sweetness - too sweet. I think the prominent flavor is walnut and butterscotch. No coconut, no cacao nibs, no graham cracker. It’s about as balanced as a gymnast eating shit while spinning on that log thing.

Overall, it’s really not that bad. But from Other Half, I want more.

Peace!

 

 

From a 500 ml. bottle into a whiskey glass, this beer pours out a dark, coffee like brown. An oily appearance forms on top of the glass from all the sediment and there is even a huge chunk of graham cracker left floating around. And on the last pour of the bottle, you can see sediment floating throughout the entirety, even making it a shade lighter in color.

The nose carries a bigger booziness than sweetness. I want to say I’m surprised, with all the sweet additives, but remind myself that it’s almost 15%. I get booze covered dark fruit; raisins and plums. Chocolate chip cookies and oatmeal raisin cookies bounce in and out along with faint caramel sauce and molasses. It’s pretty tame though, and I’m having to really search.

The taste however, pops. No searching here. It comes in with a big chocolate syrup presence tangling with caramel sauce and a boozy background that stays the whole way. Slight cookie presence shows up again, but not with the presence it had in the nose. Brownie mix, ready to go in the oven. The dark fruit notes stay consistent throughout, never becoming too strong to distract but always adding to the overall pot. It does carry a nut presence throughout as well.

A boozy alcohol presence stays throughout, you’re not going to avoid it. But, it’s not out of line either. It keeps the sweetness in check and provides a nice warming sensation without the burn. I might even guess it at 12%. The carbonation is low, sitting back to let the other aspects shine. Thick, full, almost oily and syrupy sweetness in the body.

Overall, I wasn’t able to pick out everything mentioned on the label, but this does provide nice layers of sweetness mixing with a quite intriguing stout base that I would love to try on its own. I enjoyed it.

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07/05/19

Bottle to tulip. Thanks to DC for sharing.

Thick dark black look, globules of something tan....probably Graham cracker.
Is very good very sweet I get lots of graham cracker and cocoa nibs and a little bit of coconut. The Taste is a little super sweet the butterscotch well not super apparent in flavor is super apparent in sweetness. A good dessert beer, but good in small doses.

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Large shared bottle.
Very sweet with butterscotch, subtle roasted nuts, dark chocolate and a host of other flavors.
Overall. Very complex but a bit too sweet.

 

 

Syrupy blackish brown with oily particles creating a filmy sheen on the glass, flavors of nutty brownie pair with a lightly sharp malt and booze that stings on the way down.

Decanted from a 16.9 oz (500 ml) bottle into a custom taster pint; no production information.
A: Pours a very dark brown color with a one finger, light fluffy brown, spotty cap retention, and limited lacing.
S: Aromas of chocolate, bourbon, molasses, walnut, and coconut.
T: Sweet. Flavors of chocolate, molasses, coconut, walnut, raspberry jam, and caramel. Bitterness subsumed under sweetness.
M: Full bodied with moderate effervescence. Creamy and thick.
O: A delicious dessert stout. Chocolate, coconut, and walnut basically make it taste a lot like Almond Joy. Enjoyable but clearly for very specific, dare I say special, occasions.

On tap at Other Half Rochester in Bloomfield, NY.

This one pours a very dark black color, with a small head, and not much lacing.

This smells like coconut, chocolate covered butterscotch candy, caramel, chocolate fudge, roast, booze, etc.

I'm not sure I get the graham crackers here, but everything else comes in nicely. Coconut is the dominant flavor here, and the butterscotch works fairly well, despite my slight misgiving on that addition. It's got a deep fudgy character to it, with a touch of roast that tries valianty to make this one not too sweet.

This is thick, and just slightly syrupy, like most of the OH stouts I've had. There's not a ton of booze in the actual taste, unlike the aroma. It's a slow sipper.

I basically want to try every OH stout at this point - they are just such a guilty pleasure for me at this point.

 

 

Picked this up at Other Half a few weeks back, finally getting around to it on this gorgeous spring day. This was a nice Stout that felt much weaker than it was in actuality, but the flavors were just a bit short on captivating me. There was plenty to like here and I loved the name and label but to me, this should have been conditioned on seven different items and not five!

The pour to this was alright as the liquid was dark, moderately silky, and thin but there was little head to top it off and no lacing to be seen as I worked my way through this. Lots of chocolate, cacao nibs, and butterscotch sweetness in the nose as this came across as quite sweet; to the point where this felt like a liquid pastry. The coconut came through in the taste along with hints of brandy and raspberry, making this feel somewhat strong and sticky. Some powder and nuttiness came through in the taste as this fully warmed up but this was an American Imperial Stout that nearly felt like brandy with some dessert pastries thrown in for good measure!

Lots of booze here but you'll feel enough sugar and butterscotch that it's hard to discern how potent this really is. If gluttony is your downfall, then this beer would be a nice accessory to have with that! Not Other Half's best but it's in line with most of their other offerings as it was enjoyable and easy to quaff. It has me interested in Moksa as well and looking for the nearest diner for a cake or two to top this off...