Rorschach
Annex Ale Project
- From:
- Annex Ale Project
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Sweet / Milk Stout
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.88 | pDev: 3.09%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Apr 07, 2019
- Added:
- Nov 19, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by ChrisCage from Canada (AB)
4.11/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.11/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
A- Pours a solid blackish brown color with a great looking tan colored head that starts out about one finger in thickness and has excellent retention! Carbonation is of course too hard to see what is happening, but the lacing is very impressive, leaving behind a snow capped mountain on the inside of my glass!
S- Dark chocolate, black French press coffee, and raw vanilla bean pod dominate the aroma profile. Black and/or chocolate malt sweetness lingers throughout in the background, along with roasty, toasty bread and yeast character....reminds me of a Jersey milk bar!
T- Ok I am getting lots of dark chocolate and black coffee astringency right off the bat! Along with this, are balancing flavors of dark bittersweet malts, and a certain Earthiness that stays inside the yard....nothing wild about it! Creamy yeast throughout, and a finish that is cocoa dry and has a medium hop bitterness....it lingers slightly on the palate for a couple of minutes after the swallow.
M/O- Medium/full body, and a velvety carbonation provide a smooth easy drinking Stout! There is a sweetness about it but I don't find it as sweet as English styled Milk Stouts....it is good though. The alcohol is well hidden and provides a nice beer that would pair well with a high cocoa content chocolate or old cheddar! Decent overall and a nice AB product!
Jan 18, 2019S- Dark chocolate, black French press coffee, and raw vanilla bean pod dominate the aroma profile. Black and/or chocolate malt sweetness lingers throughout in the background, along with roasty, toasty bread and yeast character....reminds me of a Jersey milk bar!
T- Ok I am getting lots of dark chocolate and black coffee astringency right off the bat! Along with this, are balancing flavors of dark bittersweet malts, and a certain Earthiness that stays inside the yard....nothing wild about it! Creamy yeast throughout, and a finish that is cocoa dry and has a medium hop bitterness....it lingers slightly on the palate for a couple of minutes after the swallow.
M/O- Medium/full body, and a velvety carbonation provide a smooth easy drinking Stout! There is a sweetness about it but I don't find it as sweet as English styled Milk Stouts....it is good though. The alcohol is well hidden and provides a nice beer that would pair well with a high cocoa content chocolate or old cheddar! Decent overall and a nice AB product!
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.81/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.81/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle - a Milk Chocolate Stout. I'm having Watchmen flashbacks when I consider this one's name.
This beer pours a pretty solid black, with minor amber basal edges, and three fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly bubbly tan head, which leaves some splendid layered webbed lace around the glass as it slowly yet surely sinks out of sight.
It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, subtle cafe-au-lait, and very tame earthy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, medium dark chocolate, over-creamed coffee, a hint of anise spice, and more well-understated earthy, herbal, and musty hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-coating frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, with nothing really acting up here that may be cause for getting put in time-out. It finishes off-dry, the cocoa and malt in a lingering two-step.
Overall - the chocolate effect isn't as pronounced as one might have been expecting, but it's still aiiiiight. And with no hint of the extra point and a half of the proverbial paint thinner, this is worth sipping on while I watch the house get eerily dark so early in the day. Not news, but still.
Nov 24, 2018This beer pours a pretty solid black, with minor amber basal edges, and three fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly bubbly tan head, which leaves some splendid layered webbed lace around the glass as it slowly yet surely sinks out of sight.
It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, subtle cafe-au-lait, and very tame earthy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, medium dark chocolate, over-creamed coffee, a hint of anise spice, and more well-understated earthy, herbal, and musty hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-coating frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, with nothing really acting up here that may be cause for getting put in time-out. It finishes off-dry, the cocoa and malt in a lingering two-step.
Overall - the chocolate effect isn't as pronounced as one might have been expecting, but it's still aiiiiight. And with no hint of the extra point and a half of the proverbial paint thinner, this is worth sipping on while I watch the house get eerily dark so early in the day. Not news, but still.
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