Percolate
Blaze Brewing Company

 

 

 

 

16 oz can.

Pours a near pitch black color with a finger of sudsy caramel head. Very little retention and no lacing whatsoever.

Aroma brings notes of chocolate cake, sweet cream, maple syrup, and faint roasted coffee.

The flavor has a lot of roasted malt, milk chocolate, maple syrup, vanilla, and coffee.

The feel is medium-light bodied with lower carbonation. Very soft. A little thin.

Overall, this is a good milk stout. It's a bit light in body and the flavor is surprisingly light despite the ABV, but it's nice and drinkable nonetheless.

 

On tap at Blaze - Bar Harbor in Bar Harbor, ME.

This one pours a fairly dark black color, with a small head, and a little bit of lacing.

This smells like caramel, coffee creamer, pecan, very sweet maple, and dark chocolate.

This started out relatively sweet cold off the tap, as the maple, coffee, and pecan kind of just combine into something that tastes like a really sweet flavored latte drink. But, as this warms up a bit, the flavors kind of coalesce a little better. It's still quite sweet, but it's more drinkable.

This is very creamy, with a decent thickness, and a nice drinkability. There's basically no booziness here.

This was just a little bit too sweet, but still pretty tasty.

Can from Airforcehops, thanks for the opportunity!
Inky black with a creamy tan head that persists. Big maple with plenty of roasty chocolate and coffee and earth. Really tasty.

Sampling a 16 oz can of this beer poured at cellar temp. I bought the can in Saco Maine at a small bottle shop. the beer pours more of a brown ale color than a stout as it is dark brown and light shines through the pour. The beer is dark and stout like in the glass however. A creamy khaki colored head foams up about 1 cm and remains as a pretty sturdy surface covering which creates dense lattice on each sip or swirl.
The aroma is very roasted malt and coffee with sweet maple notes and some dark chocolate too. No hop presence and the ABV is well hidden so far.
First sip reveals a smooth creamy texture and a medium body with soft and gentle spacious carbonation. this beer drinks very easy. It also does a little bit of a coating on my palate with each mouthful.
Flavor is sweet.
I get some chocolate and coffee grounds and then a does of caramel and maple notes take over with a good hit of sweetness. Almost too sweet, but then some bitter coffee comes back in on the finish. Again, I dont get any real hop profile and ABV still hidden. My glass is almost empty, much faster than I anticipated.
This is a decent beer that is a little too sweet for me and could use a bigger body and mouthfeel. But Im not sad to have bought it and if you like sweeter stouts it is worth a shot.

 

Awesome stout! Keep it up blaze!

Nearly black color. No light passes. Lasting rim bubbles from a minor head. A minimum presence of spots for lace.

The smell is a combination of darker chocolate and black coffee. Dry.

The flavor is sweeter than the smell. I also pick up on a caramel touch. This makes the taste seem more like semisweet chocolate than coffee but the aftertaste has a mocha touch (with cream). Decent body with a lower carbonation level. The aftertaste lingers with malt sugars and cream.