High Octane Approved
Interboro Spirits and Ales
- From:
- Interboro Spirits and Ales
- New York, United States
- Style:
- American Stout
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.83 | pDev: 10.97%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 04, 2017
- Added:
- Mar 03, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.4/5 rDev -11.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.4/5 rDev -11.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Stout brewed with City of Saints Coffee. $8 a pint on-draught @ a bar in Brooklyn.
APPEARANCE: Head is khaki and lasts a good 5+ minutes, leaving a thick coating of lacing as it recedes.
Body, is, predictably, an opaque solid black. No yeast/lees are visible within.
AROMA: Rich vivid coffee leaps out if the glass, bringing a cold-brew java aroma to this otherwise classic chocolate and dark malt stout and accentuating its subtle roasted barley presence.
Suggests a dry impeccably balanced stout with a lovely coffee flavour. I can't wait to try it.
TASTE & TEXTURE: The coffee is nice but lacks depth, and I think I prefer regular Approved.
There's a nice dryness to this, which plays well to the roastiness of both coffee and barley. Creamy softness takes the edge off, keeping it drinkable and approachable. Medium-bodied and smooth.
Your usual chocolate/carafa and dark malt body is there at the heart of this ale.
The stellar balance of the base stout is compromised somewhat by the coffee flavour. A more bitter, roasty, earthy coffee presence would be preferable.
OVERALL: An enjoyable coffee stout, but where the original Approved is classic, this is more by-the-numbers. A beer I could happily drink all night, but $8 a pint is steep (not that price affects my rating) and the original Approved is easily superior by my estimation.
B- (3.40) / WORTHY
Mar 03, 2017APPEARANCE: Head is khaki and lasts a good 5+ minutes, leaving a thick coating of lacing as it recedes.
Body, is, predictably, an opaque solid black. No yeast/lees are visible within.
AROMA: Rich vivid coffee leaps out if the glass, bringing a cold-brew java aroma to this otherwise classic chocolate and dark malt stout and accentuating its subtle roasted barley presence.
Suggests a dry impeccably balanced stout with a lovely coffee flavour. I can't wait to try it.
TASTE & TEXTURE: The coffee is nice but lacks depth, and I think I prefer regular Approved.
There's a nice dryness to this, which plays well to the roastiness of both coffee and barley. Creamy softness takes the edge off, keeping it drinkable and approachable. Medium-bodied and smooth.
Your usual chocolate/carafa and dark malt body is there at the heart of this ale.
The stellar balance of the base stout is compromised somewhat by the coffee flavour. A more bitter, roasty, earthy coffee presence would be preferable.
OVERALL: An enjoyable coffee stout, but where the original Approved is classic, this is more by-the-numbers. A beer I could happily drink all night, but $8 a pint is steep (not that price affects my rating) and the original Approved is easily superior by my estimation.
B- (3.40) / WORTHY
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