Neapolitan Stout
Southern Range Brewing Co.

 

Poured from a 16 oz can into a Terrapin Barrel Glass

Pours a dark brown (nearly black) color with ruby highlights. An aggressive pour yields about three fingers of foamy tan head that recedes quickly, leaving behind little to no lacing.

The aroma is all roasted malts and chocolate, with just a hint of vanilla

The flavor is roasty malts, lactose sweetness, and vanilla. As much as I search, I can't find any strawberry. Medium/light bodied and well carbonated

Overall, this is a decent attempt at a Neapolitan Ice Cream inspired stout

 

16oz can poured into a tulip

A- slow pour produces a huge bubbly 5-finger khaki head that quickly reduces to leave nothing at all behind, I sense over-carbonation, it's fizzing like soda

S- aroma gives roasted malts, some char, maybe a hint of vanilla, a bit muted

T- slightly sweet and malty up front with notes of chocolate and a hint of char. Mid-palate brings out an artificial tartness that I can't quite identify. The finish is tart, with a generic malty linger

M- medium body with high carbonation leads to a big foamy and bubble mouthfeel that continues into a soda-like bubbly finish

O- this is a mess of a beer, no vanilla or strawberry and showing early signs of infection

Pours a murky black tea color with two fingers of foamy, dark tan head. It’s settles into a nice cap with some moderate lacing.

Roasted malts in the nose give coffee and chocolate impressions. There is also a whiff of artificial vanilla that reminds me of astronaut ice cream.

Real chocolatey tasting. Sweetly so, but with enough coffee-like bitterness to keep it from be sickly sweet. There’s also some clear milk sugar, and maybe a hint of strawberry if you go looking for it, but not enough I would have picked it up blind.

Medium bodied with modest carbonation.

Fun take on a milk stout.

 

Pours a very dark brown with ruby highlights. The head has big, soda like bubbles with a tan hue. Color kind of light for the style and the head is ugly and disconcerting.

Aroma is strong with roasty coffee and dark chocolate. Some vanilla bean and artificial strawberry makes it self present with some patience. The aroma definitely moves towards giving the Neapolitan ice cream vibe the more you sniff on it, but in a somehow unpleasant way.

The flavor starts with dark chocolate with some coffee. Some vanilla bean in here. Not getting any of the strawberry notes. The retro-nasal gives an ashtray kind of note, which gets more prominent on the palate the more you drink. The sweetness is quite cloying.

The mouthfeel is about medium bodied, but seems way thinner than it should be. The carbonation is too aggressive and comes off like a soda. There's the slightest hint of alcohol warmth, but nothing more than you'd expect at 5.4%.

Overall, this beer is poorly marketed and poorly made. It does not give a Neapolitan flavor at all and it drinks like a bad soda out of an ash tray. This is a bad beer and I don't recommend it at all.