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3.94/5  rDev -5.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75

4.39/5  rDev +5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

4.23/5  rDev +1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

L: Pours dark black with a nice big tan head
S: Smells like tropical fruit, not getting smells of anything I'd expect from a stout.
T: Chocolate and coffee followed up with a nice bitter bite.
F: Smooth and a little creamy but thinner than I expected.
O: An interesting and enjoyable stout with both the hoppy smell and the thinner mouth feel. Reminds me a bit of a black IPA or a black and tan part stout and part IPA

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3.46/5  rDev -17.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25

4.33/5  rDev +3.6%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5

4.79/5  rDev +14.6%
look: 5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75

4.06/5  rDev -2.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4

4.24/5  rDev +1.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

4.02/5  rDev -3.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Look is near jet black with a plethora of gorgeous dark tan head.

Aroma is odd. At first it smells like a stout. However after sniffing around all I can smell is hops. It smells more like a DIPA than a stout.

Taste is bitter coffee, bitter dark chocolate plus a bunch of hops. Honestly it's a bitter punch of charred coffee and chocolate hops.

Feel is nice. Goes down creamy and smooth yet hangs on the palette for a long while.

Overall a fine beer. I think it maybe closer to a black ipa than it is a stout.

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4.22/5  rDev +1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4

4.73/5  rDev +13.2%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75

4.1/5  rDev -1.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

3.7/5  rDev -11.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5

Average rating from 12 members of the Eastman Craft Beer Club.

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4.17/5  rDev -0.2%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

4/5  rDev -4.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Pours pitch black, larger tan head, good lacing throughout. Fairly hoppy up front, roasted malts, char, black coffee, quite bitter. Medium body, sticky mouthfeel. Drinks like a black IPA on steroids.

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4.18/5  rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

4.15/5  rDev -0.7%
look: 5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25

4.21/5  rDev +0.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

4.32/5  rDev +3.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4

4.38/5  rDev +4.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25

Nice and dark color with a 1/2" tan head leaving some lacing behind. Probably the hoppiest stout I have ever had! Very good chocolate and raost notes in both taste and smell! The hops kinda takeover in a way, but in a good way and not like a black ipa but a hoppy stout!!!

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4.21/5  rDev +0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

How does one segue seamlessly from The Eradication/Reduction of The Bottle Backlog at Chez Woody back into what really matters, namely, The CANQuest (tm)? Well, first, you have to jump into Mr. Peabody & Sherman's W.A.B.A.C. Machine, going back to the early-to-mid-1970's. There, a youthful Bro. Woody spent a LOT of time on his maternal grandparents' property, abutting a working farm. A young neighbor girl traded comic books & played tetherball with me. She grew up, married a fellow local beer aficionado & during a recent road trip to VT, they knew to bring me CANs! Viva The CANQuest (tm)! It pays to advertise.

From the CAN: "Visit The Alchemist's YouTube Channel to see what John has to say about this beer."

I will simply restrict myself to the "Notes/Commercial Description" part of this entry in order to speed along the review. It began with the Crack! & gentle Glug, followed by an in-glass swirl. This raised two-plus fingers of dense, deep-brown head with excellent retention. Color was solid Black/Opaque (SRM = 44), allowing ZERO light penetration & seeming to suck light into it like a black hole. Nose was definitely roasty, rich with a dark chocolate semi-sweetness, a light smokiness and a bitterness that was obviously of hops, but I could not identify them on the nose. Mouthfeel was full, like a scoop or a dollop had been ladled onto my tongue. I allowed it to simply roll around there, bringing forth the full effect. The taste was a hophead's version of an AmeriCAN Double/Imperial Stout since, in addition to the chocolaty smokiness noted on the nose, it also had a grapefruit-like citrusiness. Wow! Is that what makes a beer "AmeriCAN" these days - an abundance of hops? It left me a little bewildered since I liked it, as a self-described. self-avowed hophead, but it was not what I look for in the style. Finish was dry, a CANbination of both the hops as well as the roasty malts. I liked it well enough & it was definitely a treat, but one would be plenty for me.

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3.97/5  rDev -5%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4

4.88/5  rDev +16.7%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

4.15/5  rDev -0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

3.67/5  rDev -12.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75