Big Drought Stout
Solid Rock Brewing
- From:
- Solid Rock Brewing
- Texas, United States
- Style:
- Irish Dry Stout
- ABV:
- 4%
- Score:
- 77
- Avg:
- 3.12 | pDev: 17.95%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 16, 2016
- Added:
- Oct 07, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
SCORE
77
Okay
77
Okay
Our Stout is a dark, black ale with a complex roasted coffee-chocolate character. It is a perfectly balanced marriage of malt sweetness and hops, a light body with a gorgeous head. The hops used provide a traditional mellow bitterness in a supporting role. The finish is smooth and dry. Our stout beer is brewed in the traditional ‘dry stout style’ and is very approachable.
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Reviewed by ilikebeer03 from Texas
3.69/5 rDev +18.3%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.69/5 rDev +18.3%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours black, with a light, thin head. Nose is roasted, ashy malts. Taste is a nice roasted malt, dark chocolate. Light, crisp body. Appropriate for the style. Good beer.
Oct 16, 2016
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.25/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.25/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Lacks sufficient roasted barley character, and has a shallow flavour profile which lacks intricacy or nuance. Has a coffee/chocolate one-two punch, but both notes are inexpressive. Errs on the bitter side of the bitter/sweet spectrum, though its balance is appropriate for the style. There's a subisidary hint of starchiness (possibly even oats?)
It's aptly dry, though overcarbonated. Medium-bodied, with a presence on the palate.
It's a nice little stab at an Irish Dry Stout, but I wouldn't get it again. There's no harmony of texture to taste and it isn't gestalt.
High C+ (3.25)
Apr 30, 2015It's aptly dry, though overcarbonated. Medium-bodied, with a presence on the palate.
It's a nice little stab at an Irish Dry Stout, but I wouldn't get it again. There's no harmony of texture to taste and it isn't gestalt.
High C+ (3.25)
Rated by Dicers from California
3.65/5 rDev +17%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.65/5 rDev +17%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
fresh at the brewery. Didn't get the bitterness in the roast that others got which made the brew that much better
Feb 15, 2015
Rated by NeverSettle from Texas
2/5 rDev -35.9%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
2/5 rDev -35.9%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
Surprisingly bitter taste, not enjoyable to me or my companion.
Jan 03, 2015
Reviewed by TX-Badger from Texas
2.5/5 rDev -19.9%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
2.5/5 rDev -19.9%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
Pours a very dark brown with khaki colored head. Thin viscosity, pours very smoothly. Lots of roasted malts on the nose, not a whole lot else; follows onto the palate. Finishes with more roast and very dry and short.
Dec 06, 2014
Reviewed by Pegasus from Texas
3.77/5 rDev +20.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev +20.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Appearance: Obsidian body crowned by a moderate, quite sense tan head, which retains well. Scattered, patchy lacing adorns the glass walls.
Aroma: Deep notes of roasted and charred barley dominate, with cold coffee, bitter cocoa, and a moderate herbal hop presence.
Taste: Opens with a strong punch of roasted barley. Soon after, strong cold black coffee asserts. Later in the taste, there is a flourish of bitter cocoa. Finishes with a lingering note of cold coffee and a quite lesser wave of herbal hops.
Mouth feel: Smooth, soft and full, with a little zesty carbonation.
Drinkability/notes: A very well-crafted example, quite pleasing. The low ABV (4.0%) makes this a suitable session beer.
Presentation: Packaged in a standard twelve-ounce brown glass long neck bottle, served in a Samuel Adams Boston Lager Sensory glass.
Technical: From the label: Alc/Vol 4.0% IBU 36, SRM 86.
Oct 07, 2014Aroma: Deep notes of roasted and charred barley dominate, with cold coffee, bitter cocoa, and a moderate herbal hop presence.
Taste: Opens with a strong punch of roasted barley. Soon after, strong cold black coffee asserts. Later in the taste, there is a flourish of bitter cocoa. Finishes with a lingering note of cold coffee and a quite lesser wave of herbal hops.
Mouth feel: Smooth, soft and full, with a little zesty carbonation.
Drinkability/notes: A very well-crafted example, quite pleasing. The low ABV (4.0%) makes this a suitable session beer.
Presentation: Packaged in a standard twelve-ounce brown glass long neck bottle, served in a Samuel Adams Boston Lager Sensory glass.
Technical: From the label: Alc/Vol 4.0% IBU 36, SRM 86.
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