Black Is Beautiful
Willow Rock Brewing Company
- From:
- Willow Rock Brewing Company
- New York, United States
- Style:
- Russian Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.03 | pDev: 5.71%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 14, 2023
- Added:
- Oct 14, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Black, roasty and beautiful. Filled with fresh Cascade hops and a touch of sweetness for a great, balanced imperial stout. Brewed to support justice and equality for People of Color.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho
3.71/5 rDev -7.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev -7.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
16oz can from Halftime. Black pour, still, tiny ring of brown head. Roasty aroma, light smoky, ashy notes. Taste is dark chocolate, licorice, and light coffee. Minor sweetness, but plenty of bitterness.
Feb 14, 2023
Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois
4.21/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.21/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Slate black with a tight brown head, indeed beautiful. A clinic in roasted malt in smell and taste. Smell invokes vanilla kisses, dark chocoate nibs, and hints of coffee grounds. Taste hits the coffee stronger, hint of some kind of sassafras or chickory root, with plenty of dark chocolate and roast. Feel is roasted, chewy, yet not heavy and thick at all, very drinkable but oozing with character underneath its seemingly simply character. Good beer, better cause!
Dec 16, 2020
Reviewed by Beginner2 from Illinois
4.17/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.17/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Bought two cans from Tavour. I also had "Black is Beautiful" from a Chicagoland micro bought at Beermiscuous.
So as I've been trying to figure this out.. My take is we have a novel idea in brewing to demarcate a lingering and certainly unresolved issue in American life. The idea is that a proven recipe (I presume from Weathered Souls in San Antonio) for an AIS then is shared with several select regionals and micros. Each produces their rendition.
This is a way to get around distribution difficulties between states. But it also is a clever way to show solidarity with problems that should not recur as they do. The idea (in my head) is that there is one principle (the recipe) and that it should be interpreted locally throughout our federation of states... which is how we do things here, for better or worse.
That being said, I'm going to suppose this rendition from Syracuse is close to my first rendition brewed near Chicago. This also said... that unless the Illinois and New York renditions are side-by-side, I'm not sure I can tell the difference between the two. And isn't that the way it really is... that the problem/issue gets solved regionally; but it is hard to know that things are significantly different. It only seems that way.
Whoever said that brewing is like life was on to something.
Anyhow, I hope the thoughtful efforts of Weathered Souls contributes to progress.
Nov 20, 2020So as I've been trying to figure this out.. My take is we have a novel idea in brewing to demarcate a lingering and certainly unresolved issue in American life. The idea is that a proven recipe (I presume from Weathered Souls in San Antonio) for an AIS then is shared with several select regionals and micros. Each produces their rendition.
This is a way to get around distribution difficulties between states. But it also is a clever way to show solidarity with problems that should not recur as they do. The idea (in my head) is that there is one principle (the recipe) and that it should be interpreted locally throughout our federation of states... which is how we do things here, for better or worse.
That being said, I'm going to suppose this rendition from Syracuse is close to my first rendition brewed near Chicago. This also said... that unless the Illinois and New York renditions are side-by-side, I'm not sure I can tell the difference between the two. And isn't that the way it really is... that the problem/issue gets solved regionally; but it is hard to know that things are significantly different. It only seems that way.
Whoever said that brewing is like life was on to something.
Anyhow, I hope the thoughtful efforts of Weathered Souls contributes to progress.
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