Hazelnut Butter Cup Pastry Stout
Untitled Art

12 oz. Can
BEST BY: 07/28/24

Poured into a Tree House glass a very nice dark brown color, very nice carbonation, with a very nice thick/creamy/kinda quick/fizzy one-finger plus tan head, which also leaves a pretty nice medium-size island/oil slick, and some nice sticky lacing behind. The nose is very nice, malty, hoppy, with a very nice touch of chocolate/toffee, cacao nibs, hazelnuts, coconut, vanilla/brown sugar, licorice. The taste is very nice, malty, hoppy, very nice touch of chocolate, toffee, cacao nibs, hazelnuts, coconut, with some very nice vanilla/brown sugar, licorice. Full Body, ABV is hidden very nicely, this is a very tasty brew. Overall, a very easy drinker.

Poured from a 12 ounce can dated 7-28-24 into a snifter at 55 degrees.

Look- Black, opaque, medium brown creamy head, small amount of visible particulate at the edges, slightly above average head retention and lacing, moderate alcohol legs on glass wall.

Smell- Hazelnut, cacao, coconut, very high strength of scent.

Taste- Cacao, hazelnut, toasted coconut, slight caramel, highly sweet, moderately boozy, very high strength of flavor.

Feel- Medium body, average carbonation, highly creamy, highly mouth warming, highly bitter, highly sweet, moderately mouth coating, velvety, moderately boozy.

Overall- Black and opaque with a small amount of visible particulate at the margins. The nose was a very powerful and great mix of hazelnut, cacao and coconut. The flavor followed the bouquet, but had the added complexity of caramel layered in. The mouthfeel was nearly perfect. A slightly more robust body would have been the difference, but still outstanding. Overall this beer delivered big aromatics and flavors that were both complex and delicious with great appearance and feel.

 

 

 

 

Sweet and full of strong artificial flavors, like most of untitled arts pastry stouts. In this case the sweetness is not too cloying, and the hazelnut, chocolate and coconut come together in harmony over the backdrop of roasted malt and hops. Tastes pretty good, like dessert, though slightly less than the sun of its parts.

 

 

Almost pitch black pourwoth a short head that disappeared way too fast. Oily lace on the glass.
It smells and Taste exactly like the name implies. Very high on the sweetness scale .
Had to dump up the feel because of the 11.7% ABV. Thick and syrupy on the tongue.
Fortunately I decided to down this one after dinner. What a great desert beverage. I see more in my future.

Loving these Untitled Art pastry stouts; 12oz can poured into a snifter. Pretty much pitch black with a dark brown/mocha-colored head. Rich nutty aromas of peanut butter and hazelnut, chocolate and cacao nib, faint banana, more of the same on the palate with an added vanilla sweetness, some roasty presence reminiscent of flavored coffee. Very sweet, not quite cloying but good in small doses.

another intensely flavored dessert stout from these guys, fun to try, but always thankful to be sharing them around a number of ways, not sure who could or would want to drink more than a little bit of most of them. this has that floured nut thing to me, none of the textural richness real nuts provide, its syrupy and sweet without that but not round and gentle feeling, still, the hazelnut has some authenticity to it, i just wish they didnt bog this down with so many other things, like does this need coconut in it? does it need caramel color? its already near black in the glass, whats the point? sometimes these guys come across a bit gimmicky and all the extras is often why, what can that possibly do to this thats favorable? unspecified artificial flavors too, come on. in any event, the coconut is subtle, behind the hazelnut, chocolate is way up there with the bitter nibs providing a needed counterpoint to the sweeter layers this has, some roast and coffee character in the mix of course too, the base stout is pretty sturdy. i like what the brown sugar does with the cocoa and the hazelnut, and thats where this wins. totally palate coating but not overly alcoholic for its listed strength, and overall this is a fun sipper, distinct with all this flavor, without a doubt overdone, but better than so many others in this increasingly obnoxious style space. i dont trust untitled art, something fishy about it all, but i have had a good time tasting some of their weirder offerings since they have been for sale in idaho...

End goal: make beer taste like Nutella. That's what exactly what the brewers of Untitled Art and Eighth State have in mind when heading into their collaboration formulation.

A basic and jet black color, Hazelnut Butter Cup Pastry Stout settles in with an espresso dark appearance, and underneath a dense blanket of sandy tan foam. The promise of chocolate and hazelnut is delivered in the beer's scent swirling with mocha, coffee, nuttiness and toffee. Those hazelnut and chocolate flavors grow quickly on the tongue as the malts are a straight forward dialogue of milk chocolate, nutella, fudge and deeply caramelized sugars.

As its blissful flavors slather the middle palate, the more robust taste of sweet chocolate morsels, espresso, walnut and toasted hazelnuts create a savory and unabashed dessert effect on the tastebuds. Full saturation of deeply caramelized malts start to become fudgy on the late palate in a pleasantly cloying, slightly bitter balance.

Unabashedly full in body, the ale is simply larger than life. Its thickness is redolent of cake batter as the malts cling to the softer tissues of the mouth without restraint. Cut slightly only by its kahlua-like spice, this beer is a chocoholics kryptonite. A long and savory-sweet draw of all-things-nutella lingers effortlessly and welcomingly into the next baited sip.

 

Pours dark chocolate brown with a vigorous four finger head. Aroma is immediately hazelnut - I mean, whoa. Some vanilla and peanut butter smells accompany this first sniff. Taste is very sweet and all hazelnut. This is a knock you on the head and take no prisoners hazelnut beer. Very nice, very sweet. Enjoy cold.

 

 

L: Poured from a 12oz can into a sniffer - Huge head risen, about 3-4 fingers length to be exact.
S: Definitely getting milk chocolate, brown sugar, cacao nibs, subtle coconut, hazelnuts, malts. Very sweet predominant smell to it.
T: Just like it advertised, you taste the milk chocolate at front along with the cacao nibs, hazelnut, brown sugar, with a coconut sweet ending. Very interesting. The more I sip the hazelnut stands out more with the coconut aftertaste.
F: Easy to drink, sweet pastry stout for sure. Alcohol is well hidden. Full bodied, thick. Be careful, this is delicious.
O: I like this! I'm into more stouts brewed with coconut so this was well up my alley. It might be to sweet for other people but I liked this overall!