Black is Beautiful
Hermit Thrush Brewery
- From:
- Hermit Thrush Brewery
- Vermont, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.6 | pDev: 23.06%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 07, 2021
- Added:
- Nov 23, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by snilsen13 from Massachusetts
2.03/5 rDev -43.6%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2
2.03/5 rDev -43.6%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2
I really wanted to like this. It taste like a Homebrew gone bad. They can make some okay beers but this wasn’t one of them.
Aug 16, 2021
Reviewed by Jsalz21 from New Jersey
4.19/5 rDev +16.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.19/5 rDev +16.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Sour stouts for me feel like an early 2010s thing. Kettle Soured Imperial Stout by Hermit Thrush, part of the Black is Beautiful Initiative hosted by Weathered Souls.
Pours opaque black and surprisingly has some decent head. A kind of dark khaki like espresso foam. Pouring I also noticed a somewhat viscous looking pour so hopefully nothing will become of that.
The first impressions of the aroma are still very stout-like. Black coffee, molasses and roasted malts but then a underlying funkiness is also present.
Pretty interesting in that it's big, stouty character is very prominent in union with its sourness. Notes of cold coffee, dark maple sugar, lemon zest, and roasted barley.
Here's the thing about the mouthfeel, it is quite balanced for such a big, style-bending beer. It is very full bodied and balanced between Imperial Stout and sour, both in tandem as opposed to working against each other. It is also much better carbonated than i would have expected, which has to count for something.
This is only the secod BIB I have had and it deviates quite a bit. However, it definitely doesn't feel like it was just done for gits and shiggles. Hermit Thrush has made and interesting and worthy-of-seeking beer that has a combiation of aspects from two styles *mostly* everyone loves and it flavorful and contemplative.
Black Lives Matter.
Feb 11, 2021Pours opaque black and surprisingly has some decent head. A kind of dark khaki like espresso foam. Pouring I also noticed a somewhat viscous looking pour so hopefully nothing will become of that.
The first impressions of the aroma are still very stout-like. Black coffee, molasses and roasted malts but then a underlying funkiness is also present.
Pretty interesting in that it's big, stouty character is very prominent in union with its sourness. Notes of cold coffee, dark maple sugar, lemon zest, and roasted barley.
Here's the thing about the mouthfeel, it is quite balanced for such a big, style-bending beer. It is very full bodied and balanced between Imperial Stout and sour, both in tandem as opposed to working against each other. It is also much better carbonated than i would have expected, which has to count for something.
This is only the secod BIB I have had and it deviates quite a bit. However, it definitely doesn't feel like it was just done for gits and shiggles. Hermit Thrush has made and interesting and worthy-of-seeking beer that has a combiation of aspects from two styles *mostly* everyone loves and it flavorful and contemplative.
Black Lives Matter.
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