Umbra
Bissell Brothers Brewing Co.

 

Opaque pour with a nice thin head that lingers and laces the sides as you consume. The smell is roasted malt and perhaps a little molasses. Taste is sweet, roasted malt with a coffee like finish. Nice medium-full mouthfeel. I'm partial to stouts and this is a good one.

 

 

Canned 2025/09/18
Pours a foamy fizzy thicker 1 finger brownish head, good retention, soapy lacing, basically black color

Nose some roasted malts, plenty of chocolate, cocoa, a bit of roasted coffee, a bit of baking spices, creamy oatmeal, and a bit of caramel,

Taste brings lush creamy cocoa, a bit of roasted malts, coffee, a bit of espresso, more cocoa and dark chocolate, creamy oatmeal maybe lactose chocolate milk, almost fudgey, some bitterness from the roast and a little spicy hop, dryish finish, semi sweet more spicy hop notes

Mouth is fuller bod, creamy thick lush, med carb

Overall a nice oatmeal stout, a bit on the heavier side overly roasty and thick almost like export stout style, but still in the oatmeal stout range

 

 

16oz can from Tavour. Near black pour with a one finger creamy beige head. Light roasty aroma, chocolate, burnt toast. Taste is bitter, roasty, and dark chocolate. Very creamy and smooth. A real pleasure to drink.

(16 oz can, PKGD 12/05/24; purchased cold single at Pinocchio's a couple nights ago... poured into my Sam Smith's imperial pint)

L: puts up maybe a finger of foam, dark brown and fleeting; deep dark brown liquid... a few specs of lace; little collar lingering... their website currently lists these as the malt components: 2-row, crystal malt, Golden Promise, Maine oats, 'roasted malt'

S: molasses cookie, ground medium-roast coffee, dark chocolate cake, top note of nutty roasted barley... superb intensity

T: bready malt and robust roastiness amplified; peppery/charred bitterness (like a steak), espresso-like roast dominating the aftertaste... getting into it, just wave after wave of electric-shock acidity, but the malt mush below meets its intensity

F: fairly milky/oily in texture, with some soft residual viscosity in the finish, but clipped at the back of the palate with a peppery, acidic heat via the roast/hops and blooming booze

O: pretty excellent, rippingly roasty stout, reminiscent of SN Stout or Ed Fitz's characteristics... overall, not what I'd consider a true-to-form oatmeal stout, due to its aggressive bite, but I can discern the oat influence through the attack... would love to have this again; scratches an itch (2407)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poured into a 13 oz Teku glass canned on 1/29/2020. Pours midnight black with a massive 2 plus finger sticky mocha head that leaves thick webs of lace all over the sides of the glass, with solid retention. 4.5

Smell is cocoa nibs, expresso, vanilla bean, toffee, and caramel. 4.5 very inviting.

Taste a tad one dimensional in the best way possible, cocoa, coffee, vanilla, caramel, and toffee. 4.5

Mouthfeel is bigger than most at 7.5%, gentle carbonation, maybe a tad dry as you would expect from a stout like this, and drinks bigger, but so tasty that it goes down really easy. 4.75

Overall this is a world class stout, that is really approachable and warms the sole on a cold winters night. A great beer..... 4.5