Dusk To Dawn White Stout
Upper Thames Brewing Company
- From:
- Upper Thames Brewing Company
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American Stout
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +2 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.33 | pDev: 25.53%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 6
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 11, 2024
- Added:
- Dec 19, 2019
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 2
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Prepare to be delighted by rich coffee and chocolate flavours with subtle notes of caramel and Irish cream. A fragrant coffee aroma is complimented by a smooth, velvety mouthfeel that rounds out this delicious brew.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by 1302cpurnell
3.59/5 rDev +7.8%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.59/5 rDev +7.8%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
The coffee smell is strong at first, as you take a drink the smell does dissipate, but overall the taste is good. For someone that prefers stouts, this one is the first white stout I’ve tried and I like it!
Oct 11, 2024
Reviewed by taxandbeerguy from Canada (ON)
3.38/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.38/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
473 ml can served fairly cold into a tulip. LCBO purchase for about $3.25 CDN. Canned November 3, 2020.
Appearance - Hazy golden brew with hues of copper. A finger and a half of white head is poured, retention is moderate. No lacing to speak of.
Smell - Wet coffee grounds for sure, huge amounts with a subtle caramel and vanilla backing. There's a slightly green pepper like quality to the coffee aroma. After having a sip of the beer, the strong coffee aroma is gone.
Taste - Thin watery beer with subtle hints of coffee but fairly sweet with caramel and trace amount of vanilla. Not getting much chocolate. Quite sweet.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied, flat yet seems gassy afterwards. Finish is neither dry nor anything else.
Overall - It's not bad, but it's not really that good either. The nose makes a good first impression but then falls off and the body just doesn't quite work for complementing the flavors featured here. I will enjoy the second can well enough (at a later date) but glad I didn't get more than 2.
Jan 08, 2021Appearance - Hazy golden brew with hues of copper. A finger and a half of white head is poured, retention is moderate. No lacing to speak of.
Smell - Wet coffee grounds for sure, huge amounts with a subtle caramel and vanilla backing. There's a slightly green pepper like quality to the coffee aroma. After having a sip of the beer, the strong coffee aroma is gone.
Taste - Thin watery beer with subtle hints of coffee but fairly sweet with caramel and trace amount of vanilla. Not getting much chocolate. Quite sweet.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied, flat yet seems gassy afterwards. Finish is neither dry nor anything else.
Overall - It's not bad, but it's not really that good either. The nose makes a good first impression but then falls off and the body just doesn't quite work for complementing the flavors featured here. I will enjoy the second can well enough (at a later date) but glad I didn't get more than 2.
Reviewed by Batheinfire from Canada (ON)
1.67/5 rDev -49.8%
look: 2.25 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5
1.67/5 rDev -49.8%
look: 2.25 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5
Apperance is right its definitely not dark, unfortunately flavor is far from right . Imagine a bad Scotch ale with coffee grounds dumped in and a swig of Irish cream for bad measure.
May 12, 2020
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.56/5 rDev +6.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.56/5 rDev +6.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
473 mL can from the LCBO; dated Dec 23 2019 and served at cellar temperature.
Pours a clear, medium golden-amber hue, its body flecked with specks of debris that gradually settle out. Situated atop is one finger of foamy white head that lasts for the better part of three minutes, eventually disintegrating into a wide, frothy collar as it leaves behind a snaking band of lace. Lots of ground coffee beans and espresso coming through on the nose - I guess that's what that sediment was - with the cacao nibs also providing a nice, rich, chocolatey backdrop to the aroma. There's also hints of vanilla coffee creamer and caramelized sugars.
One of those instances where the beer smells better than it tastes. Lots of coffee grounds right off the bat, with caramelized sugars, bready malts and cake batter leading into a boozy-sweet finish that blends vanilla, cacao, coffee and caramel. Lingering espresso, chocolate and milk sugar flavours in the aftertaste; the bitterness of the coffee clashes rather than integrates with the sweeter elements IMO. Medium-light in body, with middling carbonation levels that provide a little bit of crispness to this brew's generally smooth mouthfeel. One serving is more than enough for me.
Final Grade: 3.56, a B grade. Bonus points for creativity, but Upper Thames' Dusk to Dawn White Stout just isn't up my alley. I can't recall any other instance where a 5% beer tasted boozy, but there's a first time for everything I suppose. No subtlety whatsoever - this one just smacks you in the face with coffee, malts and lactose, but the aftertaste is what really ruined it for me. Worth trying at least once - who knows, maybe you'll really like it.
Mar 04, 2020Pours a clear, medium golden-amber hue, its body flecked with specks of debris that gradually settle out. Situated atop is one finger of foamy white head that lasts for the better part of three minutes, eventually disintegrating into a wide, frothy collar as it leaves behind a snaking band of lace. Lots of ground coffee beans and espresso coming through on the nose - I guess that's what that sediment was - with the cacao nibs also providing a nice, rich, chocolatey backdrop to the aroma. There's also hints of vanilla coffee creamer and caramelized sugars.
One of those instances where the beer smells better than it tastes. Lots of coffee grounds right off the bat, with caramelized sugars, bready malts and cake batter leading into a boozy-sweet finish that blends vanilla, cacao, coffee and caramel. Lingering espresso, chocolate and milk sugar flavours in the aftertaste; the bitterness of the coffee clashes rather than integrates with the sweeter elements IMO. Medium-light in body, with middling carbonation levels that provide a little bit of crispness to this brew's generally smooth mouthfeel. One serving is more than enough for me.
Final Grade: 3.56, a B grade. Bonus points for creativity, but Upper Thames' Dusk to Dawn White Stout just isn't up my alley. I can't recall any other instance where a 5% beer tasted boozy, but there's a first time for everything I suppose. No subtlety whatsoever - this one just smacks you in the face with coffee, malts and lactose, but the aftertaste is what really ruined it for me. Worth trying at least once - who knows, maybe you'll really like it.
Reviewed by Pmicdee from Canada (ON)
3.42/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.42/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
A very unique beer. A white stout with hints of coffee and Irish Cream liqueur. I’ve never tasted anything like it but I have tried a couple of white stouts. I could drink one of these but that would be enough
January 31 2020
Feb 01, 2020January 31 2020
Reviewed by Nightspeed from Canada (ON)
4.54/5 rDev +36.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.54/5 rDev +36.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Pour - Pours a golden straw colour with a decently small head that fizzles out pretty quickly
Aroma - Smells almost exactly like a strong vanilla cappuccino from a good coffee shop with heavy vanilla caramel, white chocolate and blonde espresso notes
Taste - Almost exactly like the aroma, tastes like a vanilla caramel cappuccino with a very pleasant bitterness and lack of candy sweetness that you would've gotten if this were a regular stout
Feel - Light in the mouth but super bold in flavour and character, very very pleasant
Overall - This is exactly what I was searching for as someone who doesn't every rush to pick up the newest craft stouts (I work for the LCBO so I come across most of the popular craft stouts out of Ontario). The lack of over-sweetness that I find in a lot of the other craft stouts I've tried such as Omnipollo's, Wellington's, Left Field's etc. This is phenomenal where it mixes the bold coffee/chocolate base notes of a stout but with a delicate bitterness and lack of sweetness that blends so perfectly together on this beer. The vanilla caramel character is great and very unique as it tastes nothing like what I've had previously.
Jan 18, 2020Aroma - Smells almost exactly like a strong vanilla cappuccino from a good coffee shop with heavy vanilla caramel, white chocolate and blonde espresso notes
Taste - Almost exactly like the aroma, tastes like a vanilla caramel cappuccino with a very pleasant bitterness and lack of candy sweetness that you would've gotten if this were a regular stout
Feel - Light in the mouth but super bold in flavour and character, very very pleasant
Overall - This is exactly what I was searching for as someone who doesn't every rush to pick up the newest craft stouts (I work for the LCBO so I come across most of the popular craft stouts out of Ontario). The lack of over-sweetness that I find in a lot of the other craft stouts I've tried such as Omnipollo's, Wellington's, Left Field's etc. This is phenomenal where it mixes the bold coffee/chocolate base notes of a stout but with a delicate bitterness and lack of sweetness that blends so perfectly together on this beer. The vanilla caramel character is great and very unique as it tastes nothing like what I've had previously.
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