Gatekeeper Belgian Chocolate Stout
Ol' Beautiful Brewing Co.
- From:
- Ol' Beautiful Brewing Co.
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Belgian Dark Ale
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.83 | pDev: 2.35%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 26, 2024
- Added:
- Jan 14, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.87/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.87/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store, they of the pampering service for unfilled glass upon checkout!
This beer pours a fairly solid black, with rather scant amber basal edges, and one pudgy finger of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat bubbly brown head, which leaves a bit of jagged coral reef lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of roasted caramel malt, rich cafe-au-lait, bittersweet cocoa powder, some earthy old-school yeastiness, anise spice, and some basically plain leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a lesser biscuity toffee thing, some free-range ashiness, medium-dark chocolate, thankfully fading estery yeast, milky coffee, and more well understated earthy, musty, and floral 'verdant' hoppiness.
The carbonation is pretty wan in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with just a hint of char taking the proceedings down a notch or so here. It finishes off-dry, the malt, cocoa, and fruity yeast character all glad-handing each other on the way out the door.
Overall - this isn't as strange in the flavour department as other lesser mortals would have you believe. The chocolate, malt, and roast dominate, with only a very minor Belgian yeast essence supporting the rest of the titular promise. Worth checking out, but with one final warning: she's a slow 'gusher', if you're not really paying attention, y'know, being a good gatekeeper.
Jan 15, 2018This beer pours a fairly solid black, with rather scant amber basal edges, and one pudgy finger of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat bubbly brown head, which leaves a bit of jagged coral reef lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of roasted caramel malt, rich cafe-au-lait, bittersweet cocoa powder, some earthy old-school yeastiness, anise spice, and some basically plain leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a lesser biscuity toffee thing, some free-range ashiness, medium-dark chocolate, thankfully fading estery yeast, milky coffee, and more well understated earthy, musty, and floral 'verdant' hoppiness.
The carbonation is pretty wan in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with just a hint of char taking the proceedings down a notch or so here. It finishes off-dry, the malt, cocoa, and fruity yeast character all glad-handing each other on the way out the door.
Overall - this isn't as strange in the flavour department as other lesser mortals would have you believe. The chocolate, malt, and roast dominate, with only a very minor Belgian yeast essence supporting the rest of the titular promise. Worth checking out, but with one final warning: she's a slow 'gusher', if you're not really paying attention, y'know, being a good gatekeeper.
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