Obsidian Nightmare
Variant Brewing Company

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From:
Variant Brewing Company
 
Georgia, United States
Style:
American Imperial Stout
ABV:
11.4%
Score:
+9 ratings needed
Avg:
3.68 | pDev: 0%
Ratings:
1 | reviews: 1
Status:
Active
Rated:
Jun 11, 2021
Added:
Jun 10, 2021
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Brewed for our 3rd Anniversary Celebration -

This Imperial Stout was brewed with ghost chili peppers, Ghana cacao, Papa New Guinea vanilla beans. Decadent chocolate & vanilla immediately rush through your palette but with an aggressive spicy kick as you progress past the first few sips.
Recent ratings and reviews.
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Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York

3.68/5  rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
This one pours a fairly dark black color, with a small head, and a bit of lacing.

This smells like very spicy peppers, vanilla, dark chocolate, and roast.

This has a good base, and the chocolate flavor is very pleasant. I don't get a ton of vanilla, but it's definitely there. However, that pepper - where do I start? It starts out very spicy, and only progressively gets hotter and hotter as the beer warms up. It's a good and clean pepper character, but it's just so intense. It's hard to discern anything else, especially as the beer warms.

This is medium bodied, with a huge lingering spicy feel on the lips, even long after the beer is finished.

There's some good aspects to this, but I have to say the beer is just about too spicy.
Jun 11, 2021