Hex Toasted Almond Torte
Counter Weight Brewing Company
- From:
- Counter Weight Brewing Company
- Connecticut, United States
- Style:
- Sweet / Milk Stout
- ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.41 | pDev: 4.08%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Nov 29, 2020
- Added:
- Oct 31, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Imperial Milk Stout brewed with copious amounts of toasted almonds and accented with vanilla. Big luscious mouthfeel with balanced roastiness.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by sulldaddy from Connecticut
4.23/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.25
4.23/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.25
Sampling a cold 16 oz can poured into my snifter. Beer is brewed with heavy dose of toasted almonds and vanilla. Picked up from the brewery today on its release date.
The beer pours a jet black color with no light passing through my glass. Even after an aggressive pour only a .5 tan creamy textured head foams up. This foam fades quickly to only one large wispy island in the center of my glass. very little surface activity rising up to add foam. Wish there was a little better head retention.
Aroma is sweet with toasted almond and nutty extract scent that I always think smells like sweet cherry note in baked goods. There is also some vanilla and dark chocolate going towards a bit of roasted malt notes. I dont get any hop character and the ABV isnt really apparent on the nose either.
First sip reveals a soft silky texture and very full body with some stickiness to it. Carbonation is spacious yet kind of tingly too. Physical traits make this a sipping beer.
Flavor is sweet up front and throughout. Sweet almond nutty notes, again I always think of cherries here. I get the vanilla and dark chocolate again with some sweet vanilla and almond notes on the finish that linger long after each swallow. Hops are absent here too.
This is a fairly sweet higher octane imperial stout. a nice sipping beer, but I could see the sweetness being a little too much or some people.
Oct 31, 2020The beer pours a jet black color with no light passing through my glass. Even after an aggressive pour only a .5 tan creamy textured head foams up. This foam fades quickly to only one large wispy island in the center of my glass. very little surface activity rising up to add foam. Wish there was a little better head retention.
Aroma is sweet with toasted almond and nutty extract scent that I always think smells like sweet cherry note in baked goods. There is also some vanilla and dark chocolate going towards a bit of roasted malt notes. I dont get any hop character and the ABV isnt really apparent on the nose either.
First sip reveals a soft silky texture and very full body with some stickiness to it. Carbonation is spacious yet kind of tingly too. Physical traits make this a sipping beer.
Flavor is sweet up front and throughout. Sweet almond nutty notes, again I always think of cherries here. I get the vanilla and dark chocolate again with some sweet vanilla and almond notes on the finish that linger long after each swallow. Hops are absent here too.
This is a fairly sweet higher octane imperial stout. a nice sipping beer, but I could see the sweetness being a little too much or some people.
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