Sisyphus - Rocky Road
Mortalis Brewing Co.
- From:
- Mortalis Brewing Co.
- New York, United States
- Style:
- Sweet / Milk Stout
- ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.31 | pDev: 3.71%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 08, 2023
- Added:
- Jun 08, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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This Imperial Stout showcases in-house roasted walnuts nuts, Madagascar vanilla beans, and marshmallows. The flavors blend together to recreate one of our favorite bowls of ice cream. We would help push the rock up the hill if we could drink this all day!
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by papposilenus from New Hampshire
4.59/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
4.59/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
From a 500ml bottle, undated. Served in a cervoise.
Pours thick, utterly black and unhighlighted with a scant half-finger of coffee-brown foam. Retention is unremarkable, leaving a fizzy skiff, a creamy collar and tattered spatters of lacing.
Nose is mildly sweet and mellow. Aroma of marshmallow fluff and vanilla bean. Reminiscent of caramel cremes and college girls’ plump white inner thighs.
Taste is thickly sugary sweet. First impression is of drinking a marshmallow. Vanilla and marshmallow dominate. I think I can tease out the taste of walnut but tbh probably just because I read it on the label. In the end, tasting not entirely unlike a heathbar.
Feel is smooth, dense, thick and sugary without being syrupy with fine, prickly, vanishingly gentle carbonation. Sliiiiides down the gullet like codeine cough syrup.
Overall, straight-up liquid diabetes. It is delicious. I mean, yes, it’s dissolving the enamel on my teeth and christ knows what all’s going on with my blood sugar but, fuck me dry, I can’t stop sipping at it.
Dec 22, 2022Pours thick, utterly black and unhighlighted with a scant half-finger of coffee-brown foam. Retention is unremarkable, leaving a fizzy skiff, a creamy collar and tattered spatters of lacing.
Nose is mildly sweet and mellow. Aroma of marshmallow fluff and vanilla bean. Reminiscent of caramel cremes and college girls’ plump white inner thighs.
Taste is thickly sugary sweet. First impression is of drinking a marshmallow. Vanilla and marshmallow dominate. I think I can tease out the taste of walnut but tbh probably just because I read it on the label. In the end, tasting not entirely unlike a heathbar.
Feel is smooth, dense, thick and sugary without being syrupy with fine, prickly, vanishingly gentle carbonation. Sliiiiides down the gullet like codeine cough syrup.
Overall, straight-up liquid diabetes. It is delicious. I mean, yes, it’s dissolving the enamel on my teeth and christ knows what all’s going on with my blood sugar but, fuck me dry, I can’t stop sipping at it.
Reviewed by SLeffler27 from New York
4.09/5 rDev -5.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.09/5 rDev -5.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
The beer is very dark brown (SRM 33-36) and is probably quite murky. A ring of fine chestnut head quickly forms after a faint veil flashes over a PBGC Aromatic Snifter.
The aroma is extremely sweet, like chocolate syrup and melted marshmallow. Baker's chocolate follows and introduces dark espresso.
The flavor, while initially very sweet, is a full step short of what was expected from the aroma. Toasted and lightly singed marshmallow is quite strong from the start. Chocolate syrup follows, while warmth reveals walnuts and coconuts. The syrup is more like a hot fudge brownie. The finish carries some sweet espresso along with welcome bitterness. I kept expecting campfire flavors, however, that was never realized. Caramelized sugar does build dramatically with extended warmth. Sisyphus is a journey in a glass.
The body is medium to full with a smooth, sharp texture. Carbonation is mild and prickly. Residual sugars are less than expected, while alcohol is quite present, though lacking heat.
One can relax with this beer, perhaps at night around a fire. The sweetness leads away from having it with a cigar, unless it is a sweet, flavored cigar. I enjoyed it on a covered deck during a cool, breezy, mid-summer afternoon.
Sep 13, 2020The aroma is extremely sweet, like chocolate syrup and melted marshmallow. Baker's chocolate follows and introduces dark espresso.
The flavor, while initially very sweet, is a full step short of what was expected from the aroma. Toasted and lightly singed marshmallow is quite strong from the start. Chocolate syrup follows, while warmth reveals walnuts and coconuts. The syrup is more like a hot fudge brownie. The finish carries some sweet espresso along with welcome bitterness. I kept expecting campfire flavors, however, that was never realized. Caramelized sugar does build dramatically with extended warmth. Sisyphus is a journey in a glass.
The body is medium to full with a smooth, sharp texture. Carbonation is mild and prickly. Residual sugars are less than expected, while alcohol is quite present, though lacking heat.
One can relax with this beer, perhaps at night around a fire. The sweetness leads away from having it with a cigar, unless it is a sweet, flavored cigar. I enjoyed it on a covered deck during a cool, breezy, mid-summer afternoon.
Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York
4.18/5 rDev -3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.18/5 rDev -3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
On tap at Mortalis Brewing Co in Avon, NY.
This one pours a very dark black color, with a small head, and not much lacing.
This smells mostly like super sweet marshmallow fluff, with a bit of sweet walnut, chocolate syrup, and molasses.
Most Mortalis stouts are sweet, but this approaches "the line", so to speak. It's still very delicious, but the fluff feels a touch artificially sweet, as that's kind of the deal with fluff anyway. The walnut flavor is killer though, and it's supremely chocolatey and fudgy.
This is thick and a touch syrupy, with a lower level of carbonation. There's no booziness at all.
This isn't my favorite stout so far. It still kicks the crap of most every other stout made locally.
Jul 03, 2019This one pours a very dark black color, with a small head, and not much lacing.
This smells mostly like super sweet marshmallow fluff, with a bit of sweet walnut, chocolate syrup, and molasses.
Most Mortalis stouts are sweet, but this approaches "the line", so to speak. It's still very delicious, but the fluff feels a touch artificially sweet, as that's kind of the deal with fluff anyway. The walnut flavor is killer though, and it's supremely chocolatey and fudgy.
This is thick and a touch syrupy, with a lower level of carbonation. There's no booziness at all.
This isn't my favorite stout so far. It still kicks the crap of most every other stout made locally.
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