Progeny: 30000HP
Aslin Beer Company
- From:
- Aslin Beer Company
- Virginia, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 12.1%
- Score:
- 89
- Avg:
- 4.08 | pDev: 4.66%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 20, 2020
- Added:
- Aug 24, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
89
Very Good
89
Very Good
Progeny: 30000HP is Joel's 7th beer and is an Imperial Stout brewed with pistachio and toffee. Notes of dark chocolate, sticky toffee, and roasted pistachio, combine for a delightfully sweet and salty experience. Finished off with coffee, adding roast for balance.
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Reviewed by HattedClassic from Virginia
4.21/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.21/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
The beer pours a nice and bubbly brown head that dissipates fairly quickly. The beer itself is a good looking dark chocolate brown with some hints of coffee black.
The smell is good. It has a good mix of roast and dark chocolate notes with a hint of toffee and caramel.
The taste is definitely interesting. The beer has a good dark chocolate note that mixes well with the coffee to create a good roasty and bitter mixture. The salt note is fairly strong and adds a nice contrast to the other notes. The caramel and toffee are there but do not seem to hold up against the salt note.
The feel is good. It has a thin body but still feels heavy. The carbonation is light but fairly biting.
Overall, one of the most interesting pastry stouts that I've had from Aslin and definitely one worth bringing back with a few tweaks to make it better.
Nov 17, 2018The smell is good. It has a good mix of roast and dark chocolate notes with a hint of toffee and caramel.
The taste is definitely interesting. The beer has a good dark chocolate note that mixes well with the coffee to create a good roasty and bitter mixture. The salt note is fairly strong and adds a nice contrast to the other notes. The caramel and toffee are there but do not seem to hold up against the salt note.
The feel is good. It has a thin body but still feels heavy. The carbonation is light but fairly biting.
Overall, one of the most interesting pastry stouts that I've had from Aslin and definitely one worth bringing back with a few tweaks to make it better.
Reviewed by cjgiant from District of Columbia
3.96/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.96/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Can:
Pours a slick and thick sludgy oily dark brown. Fair head buildup that fades fairly fast. Oily legs on the glass despite a little fizz on some early tips of this near still-looking brew. The feel almost exactly mimics this look - oily, thick, and slick with barely a tickle of carbonation.
Nose is creamy sweet coffee, dark chocolate fudge, a bit of alcohol, and a little something extra that is the pistachio, though I wouldn't pick it out without the knowledge of it being in the beer.
The flavor is definitively dessert-heavy. If you are looking for a more traditional roasty to bitter stout, look elsewhere. Given there is toffee and pistachios, I'm not sure why you'd be surprised that it's a pastry stout, though. And within the realm of decadent, sweet, chocolatey dessert beers, this is pretty decent.
The toffee is omnipresent in the sip, combining with the chocolate malt notes up front. A little bit of char sneaks through, undercutting the toffee a little bit as the bite of the 12% ABV hits my tongue. A light nuttiness flits about until the end of the taste where it's a little more obviously pistachio (though again I probably wouldn't guess that on my own). There's a light salinity to this beer, as well, such that I might assume salted pistachios were used.
A nice, sweet dessert beer in the flavor department, creamy and decadent. Be forewarned and enjoy it for what it is.
Oct 08, 2018Pours a slick and thick sludgy oily dark brown. Fair head buildup that fades fairly fast. Oily legs on the glass despite a little fizz on some early tips of this near still-looking brew. The feel almost exactly mimics this look - oily, thick, and slick with barely a tickle of carbonation.
Nose is creamy sweet coffee, dark chocolate fudge, a bit of alcohol, and a little something extra that is the pistachio, though I wouldn't pick it out without the knowledge of it being in the beer.
The flavor is definitively dessert-heavy. If you are looking for a more traditional roasty to bitter stout, look elsewhere. Given there is toffee and pistachios, I'm not sure why you'd be surprised that it's a pastry stout, though. And within the realm of decadent, sweet, chocolatey dessert beers, this is pretty decent.
The toffee is omnipresent in the sip, combining with the chocolate malt notes up front. A little bit of char sneaks through, undercutting the toffee a little bit as the bite of the 12% ABV hits my tongue. A light nuttiness flits about until the end of the taste where it's a little more obviously pistachio (though again I probably wouldn't guess that on my own). There's a light salinity to this beer, as well, such that I might assume salted pistachios were used.
A nice, sweet dessert beer in the flavor department, creamy and decadent. Be forewarned and enjoy it for what it is.
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