Pastriness
Other Half Brewing - Center Street
- From:
- Other Half Brewing - Center Street
- New York, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 12%
- Score:
- +2 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.09 | pDev: 4.4%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 03, 2024
- Added:
- Mar 27, 2022
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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We got together with the team from Surly Brewing to give Darkness, their Russian Imperial Stout classic, the Other Half pastry treatment. Loaded with hazelnuts, cocoa nibs, vanilla, cinnamon, and marshmallow.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Braunmeister_1943 from Pennsylvania
4.33/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.33/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Pours a viscous ebony with a thin brown head. Vanilla and roasted malt aroma. Sweet chocolate flavor due to marshmallow with the slightest hint of cinnamon. Lush OH mouthfeel with gentle carbonation. Overall, despite the over abundance of adjuncts, this is a quite enjoyable imperial stout!
Feb 03, 2024
Reviewed by Peach63 from New York
4.16/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.16/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Ebony with a 1/2" tan head, which fades to a wisp. Light lacing.
Aroma is marzipan, vanilla, hazelnut, chocolate, cinnamon.
Taste follows nose: marzipan, vanilla, hazelnut, chocolate, cinnamon.
Full body, light carbonation. Sweet finish.
Pretty sweet for a beer. Very good none-the-less.
Sep 18, 2022Aroma is marzipan, vanilla, hazelnut, chocolate, cinnamon.
Taste follows nose: marzipan, vanilla, hazelnut, chocolate, cinnamon.
Full body, light carbonation. Sweet finish.
Pretty sweet for a beer. Very good none-the-less.
Reviewed by Tony210 from New Jersey
4.1/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.1/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Pours very dark, minimal head. Aroma has lots of chocolate, some sweet vanilla, and I notice the hazelnut a bit. Very light cinnamon. Flavor is milk chocolate and hazelnut, lots of marshmallow. Very creamy. Overall a pretty tasty pastry stout.
7/7/22
500 ml bottle, prob a few months old
4 rating
Jul 08, 20227/7/22
500 ml bottle, prob a few months old
4 rating
Reviewed by Smakawhat from Maryland
3.85/5 rDev -5.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.85/5 rDev -5.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured from the bottle into a teku glass.
Inky pour slightly with an oil sheen, but looking a bit lifeless with barely a collar to speak of when completed. Closer inspection shows a slightly muddy very dark brown like body color, and faint whisps and some legs on the glass.
Aroma consists mostly of heat, but there are some classic added flavors. Boozy hints of nougat and vanilla but mostly lots of alcohol. Surprisingly hot sensing for even twelve percent.
Palate makes a considerable improvement. Sludgy and thick body, but surprisingly not syrupy with lots of mixed flavors. Starts off hinting of dark chocolate, then goes more into a gooey caramel quality. Sweetness is surprisingly tolerable and toned down a bit from the hinted nose. Flavors get a little more complex, more of a heated spice, and gets into unexpectedly a black licorice like taste. More vanilla as the beer warms up.
It seems the added cinnamon which doesn't come through in taste so much, has made more of a punch in the heat. However, while the beer doesn't start off on it's best footing, the palate shows a lot of character and even diversity. Comes through a bit tougher to drink though than expected.
Apr 01, 2022Inky pour slightly with an oil sheen, but looking a bit lifeless with barely a collar to speak of when completed. Closer inspection shows a slightly muddy very dark brown like body color, and faint whisps and some legs on the glass.
Aroma consists mostly of heat, but there are some classic added flavors. Boozy hints of nougat and vanilla but mostly lots of alcohol. Surprisingly hot sensing for even twelve percent.
Palate makes a considerable improvement. Sludgy and thick body, but surprisingly not syrupy with lots of mixed flavors. Starts off hinting of dark chocolate, then goes more into a gooey caramel quality. Sweetness is surprisingly tolerable and toned down a bit from the hinted nose. Flavors get a little more complex, more of a heated spice, and gets into unexpectedly a black licorice like taste. More vanilla as the beer warms up.
It seems the added cinnamon which doesn't come through in taste so much, has made more of a punch in the heat. However, while the beer doesn't start off on it's best footing, the palate shows a lot of character and even diversity. Comes through a bit tougher to drink though than expected.
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