Iconic
Situation Brewing
- From:
- Situation Brewing
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Sweet / Milk Stout
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.94 | pDev: 1.27%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Apr 15, 2018
- Added:
- Sep 12, 2016
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.86/5 rDev -2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.86/5 rDev -2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
1L howler (@ 4.5% ABV) from Sherbrooke Liquor store (my preferred way of procuring this brewery's wares), made with coffee from local YEG java shop Iconoclast.
This beer pours a fairly solid black, with loose red cola basal edges, and a teeming tower of puffy, foamy, and well bubbly brown head, which leaves a bit of mitochondrial lace around the glass as it quickly sinks away.
It smells of acrid roasted coffee beans, gritty and grainy caramel malt, slightly sour milk, warm vanilla extract, a twinge of black licorice, and some understated leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a still sharp black coffee astringency, vanilla ice cream, sugary anise spice, expired milk, some free-range ashiness, and more tame leafy, earthy, and floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite light in its fleeting frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, just a touch of char sticking in both my teeth and consciousness, apparently. It finishes off-dry, the sweetness of the malt, milk, and vanilla essence edging out the fading coffee 'character'.
Overall, this is a well-made version of the style, with the cuppa Joe element seeming rather fresh and craft-y. Easy enough to put back, with a sensible wowee sauce quotient that would suggest this as a candidate for day drinking - amirite?
Sep 19, 2016This beer pours a fairly solid black, with loose red cola basal edges, and a teeming tower of puffy, foamy, and well bubbly brown head, which leaves a bit of mitochondrial lace around the glass as it quickly sinks away.
It smells of acrid roasted coffee beans, gritty and grainy caramel malt, slightly sour milk, warm vanilla extract, a twinge of black licorice, and some understated leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a still sharp black coffee astringency, vanilla ice cream, sugary anise spice, expired milk, some free-range ashiness, and more tame leafy, earthy, and floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite light in its fleeting frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, just a touch of char sticking in both my teeth and consciousness, apparently. It finishes off-dry, the sweetness of the malt, milk, and vanilla essence edging out the fading coffee 'character'.
Overall, this is a well-made version of the style, with the cuppa Joe element seeming rather fresh and craft-y. Easy enough to put back, with a sensible wowee sauce quotient that would suggest this as a candidate for day drinking - amirite?
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