Loot
Aslin Beer Company

 

 

 

 

 

Poured a dark black with a very nice fluffy tan head. Pretty strong lacing as I drank the beer. The aroma is mint with some background of chocolate and maybe vanilla. Overall the aroma is not overly strong. Taste is definitely chocolate and mint, very sweet with limited bitterness. Taste is much stronger than the smell. Medium to full mouthfeel, smooth. Slightly cloying but no lingering bitterness. The amazing thing is the ABV. No way this drinks like 15%. Way to easy to drink. Overall I enjoyed this stout much more than I thought I would.

Smells like a thin mint Girl Scout cookie. Tastes similar with vanilla as well and less mint in the taste. Goes down like butter and way too easy to drink for 15%. Decent but the taste just doesn’t quite work for me.

 

The beer pours exactly no head, nada. It's interesting but kind of off-putting since head, even if a little, is the norm. The beer itself is an dark chocolate black that is slightly brown to it. Essentially, it looks like a liquid thin mint with a syrupy texture to it.

The smell is one-dimensional with a strong mint smell but the cocoa and slight vanilla note come out more as it warms up a little bit. Interestingly enough, despite the abv, there is no booze in the smell.

The taste is much better and amazing than the smell. The mint is still the stronger note but the cocoa nibs and slight vanilla note are much stronger; the entire thing really does taste like a liquid thin mint. Also, no real booze note, just to note.

The feel is good. It has a nice liquid and syrupy note with a slight thinness that seems to be the boozy note here. The body is heavy and there is not any carbonation anywhere, which is not too bad.

Overall, this is definitely an interesting beer and seems like it's a fairly polarizing one. The beer definitely delivers on being a liquid thin mint, which it does fantastically. The problem is that it's kind of a mediocre beer if you just treat like a regular beer. Personally, I enjoyed and thought it was good because it is a well done novelty beer that does what it set out to do while still sticking somewhat to the style.