Double Sunset (Bourbon BA w/ Guatemalan Nayo Ovalle Coffee)
Other Half Brewing - Center Street

Bottle pour at Other Half FInger Lakes in Bloomfield, NY.

THis one pours a fairly dark black color, with a pretty small head, and not much lacing.

I don't know if I would have been able to identify this as a coffee stout blind, as there's a lot of maple and caramel sweetness, and that typical generic sweetness so inherent in Other Half coffee stouts. There's some solid barrel here, but not enough to overcome the intense syrupy sweetness.

This is syrupy, thick, and lightly carbonated. 4 ounces of this is much more than enough.

This was intriguing to try but it's too much like every other OH stout.

 

Thick rich heavy and delicious

Pours ink black with a small mocha brown head that faded in average time and left minimal spotty lacing. It looked like spent motor oil, hissing/crackling as it went down.

I could smell the bourbon and booze from a foot away, it was really potent with dark chocolate, molasses, vanilla, bourbon, oaky notes, soy sauce, hot fudge, faint piney hops, minerals or metallic accents, dark rum and smoked malts. Super rich and boozy, but had enough chocolate variants for a lot of complexities.

Right out of the gate this brings heat with each sip as the bourbon is more like a shot of booze rather than an aging accent. Lots of dark chocolate, molasses, fudge and peat moss up front, followed by smoked grains, a completely burnt marshmallow, charred wood, caramel, burnt brownies, espresso, very burnt coffee grinds, cocoa powder, char, brown sugar, toffee and milk chocolate. It’s boozy and smoky and malty all at the same time, with that campfire smoked chocolate and charred barrel vanilla trailing before more bourbon kicks in. The astringent coffee bitterness is a constant with each sip, but that coffee gets overtaken by the bourbon barrels. A damn fine slow supper.