Father Cog
GearTooth Alewerks
- From:
- GearTooth Alewerks
- California, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
Ranked #1,381 - ABV:
- 9.5%
- Score:
- 88
Ranked #18,755 - Avg:
- 3.98 | pDev: 8.04%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 31, 2022
- Added:
- Sep 04, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
88
Very Good
88
Very Good
Formerly known as "Cogfather".
This easy-drinking (OK it's around 9 percent so maybe easy-drinking in a relative sense) stout has tons of malty richness. It has a wonderful roast coffee aroma and flavor along with chocolate and dark fruit notes. This is a great beer to serve with dessert, or better yet, make it the dessert by pouring it over vanilla bean ice cream.
50 IBU
This easy-drinking (OK it's around 9 percent so maybe easy-drinking in a relative sense) stout has tons of malty richness. It has a wonderful roast coffee aroma and flavor along with chocolate and dark fruit notes. This is a great beer to serve with dessert, or better yet, make it the dessert by pouring it over vanilla bean ice cream.
50 IBU
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Reviewed by JohnnyHopps from Indiana
3.81/5 rDev -4.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.81/5 rDev -4.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Appearance - The beer poured the color of black ink with a tan head crowning the glass.
Smell - The roastiness of malts came through in the nose.
Taste - At first, I got the impression of dark chocolate cookies. As the taste progressed, I got a metallic taste. There was something perfumey accompanying the metallic taste that I just couldn’t get past.
Mouthfeel - The beer had a reasonable thickness with little noted carbonation.
Overall - There are elements of something good here, but it needs work.
Jul 13, 2020Smell - The roastiness of malts came through in the nose.
Taste - At first, I got the impression of dark chocolate cookies. As the taste progressed, I got a metallic taste. There was something perfumey accompanying the metallic taste that I just couldn’t get past.
Mouthfeel - The beer had a reasonable thickness with little noted carbonation.
Overall - There are elements of something good here, but it needs work.
Reviewed by Ozzylizard from Pennsylvania
3.7/5 rDev -7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.7/5 rDev -7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
$ 15.07 (Including shipping)/bomber ($ 0.685/oz) from Blackwell’s, San Francisco, CA.
Bomber dated 1231081516. Stored at 42 degrees. Served at 52 degrees (per bottle notes) into a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter.
Aroma – coffee, chocolate, roasted malt. As it warms, chocolate predominates.
Head small (Maximum two cm, aggressive pour), light brown, average density and average retention time, diminishing to an irregular two to four mm frothy ring and a small frothy island. Retraction of the head leaves very intricate curtains.
Lacing – lacing from the dropping level is much coarser than the initial curtains.
Body – dark brown/black, opaque.
Flavor – begins with a slightly bitter chocolate taste. Allowing it to warm in my mouth releases mostly bitter coffee with a little chocolate and just a hint of the 9.5% ABV alcohol. The malt and hops are not noticeable. There is no diacetyl. The aftertaste is just bitter.
Palate – medium, creamy, soft carbonation.
At the base price (sans shipping) of $ 8.50, this is a reasonably priced average imperial stout. When you add in the shipping, this becomes a case of one and done.
Appearance 4, Aroma 4, Flavor 3.5, Palate 3.5, Overall 3.75.
May 15, 2017Bomber dated 1231081516. Stored at 42 degrees. Served at 52 degrees (per bottle notes) into a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter.
Aroma – coffee, chocolate, roasted malt. As it warms, chocolate predominates.
Head small (Maximum two cm, aggressive pour), light brown, average density and average retention time, diminishing to an irregular two to four mm frothy ring and a small frothy island. Retraction of the head leaves very intricate curtains.
Lacing – lacing from the dropping level is much coarser than the initial curtains.
Body – dark brown/black, opaque.
Flavor – begins with a slightly bitter chocolate taste. Allowing it to warm in my mouth releases mostly bitter coffee with a little chocolate and just a hint of the 9.5% ABV alcohol. The malt and hops are not noticeable. There is no diacetyl. The aftertaste is just bitter.
Palate – medium, creamy, soft carbonation.
At the base price (sans shipping) of $ 8.50, this is a reasonably priced average imperial stout. When you add in the shipping, this becomes a case of one and done.
Appearance 4, Aroma 4, Flavor 3.5, Palate 3.5, Overall 3.75.
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