Do or Do Not
Sand City Brewing Co. - North

 

 

 

Bottled 01/28/20, this is an infant as far as BBA stouts go, so the fact that it’s delicious now means in 3 months it should be better. It poured as black as ink with a 1 finger brown colored head that made hissing sounds as it dissipated quickly and left minimal lacing.

It smells like coconut, dark chocolate, vanilla, bourbon, molasses, chocolate syrup, caramel, minor oaky notes, hot fudge and chocolate or brownie batter sweetness. There are some earthy floral whiffs mixed in but it’s mostly a chocolate and coconut cluster aroma like a Girl Scout cookie. No sign of the ABV.

The taste is where the 100 lbs of coconut and toasted coconut really shine, as they start everything off and then allow the complimentary flavors to come through; dark chocolate, molasses, brown sugar, milk chocolate, dark fruit like raisins, cherry and/or plum, vanilla, bourbon, faint soy sauce, Whopper’s candy, caramel, a dash of piney hops, butterscotch, smoked grains and some chocolate milk. For a brew that just got pumped out of the barrels this week, it’s incredibly smooth with very low carbonation and zero alcohol burn. The feel is a little thin, but the complexities are fantastic with the coconut and roasty malt stout variants keeping the sweetness in check while allowing the coconut to be center stage.