Salted Caramel Stout
Schlafly Beer - The Tap Room

Appearance: Pretty well black with a light tan head and little lace.

Aroma: Salty mocha and sweet caramel. Or is it salty caramel and sweet mocha?

Taste: Rich and packed with caramel malts and a savory saltiness. Pretty unique brew here, and like most of Schlafly’s roster, packed with natural-tasting adjuncts. Not a favorite brew here, but one I had to try.

 

12oz bottle poured into a pint

A- pours black in color with a one finger foamy khaki head that has good retention

S- aroma gives a prominent caramel note, much like a caramel chew. Undertones of chocolate, light charred malt and toffee

T- malty notes of chocolate and dark fruits up front, followed by some charred malt, caramel and toffee. The finish gives more chocolate and caramel.

M- medium body with moderate carbonation produces a foamy mouthfeel that turns slightly creamy into the finish

 

 

Appearance:
Murky, walnut brown with a cream colored head so voluminous you could lose a golf ball in it. Its battened down to a tame, half-finger height in short order, where it retains for many long minutes in a perfect little puck.

Bouquet:
Sugary caramel and sticky toffee sail openly into the olfactum. They’re quickly run aground on a rocky reef of bitter, toasted dark malts.

Feel:
Full bodied with subdued carbonation that moves the linger’s sea salt tang from untraceable to just detectable.

Taste:
Toffee and caramel, stretched thin and tightly wound around little bundles of roasted, dark grains. The aftertaste includes a bit of salt so finely ground it’s nearly invisible.

The contents of two brown twelve ounce bottles will eventually be poured into a clear glass Imperial pint mug, then consumed. The liquid is a very dark brown, with a large foamy biege head. There's august carbonation. The glass lacing is irregular. The aroma is a bit malty, but there definitely is a caramel presence, too. The caramel really shows up in the taste and it turns salty at the finish. This lives up to expectations, as it delivers the taste on the label thoroughly, in a true stout medium. The body and smooth mouthfeel are well above satisfactory. Even at the conclusion, after both bottles were consumed, the taste remains consistently enjoyable and not too sweet. This one should occasionally get unretired.

Black with thick tan head. Sweet aromas of caramel, tootsie roll, and a little coffee. Initial taste is caramel merged something like coffee. It reminds me of a candy whose name I can’t remember...a chewy, homogenous bar that was hard to find in the States, tasting, I guess, something like a cross between caramel, tootsie roll, maybe coffee, and some other savory flavor, maybe peanut butter? The saltiness comes through in the finish. This stout is very sweet, fairly carbonated, and barely bitter. It all works pretty well if you like a sweet novelty stout.

Black in color with just a trace of light getting through. There's a fingernail of brown around the rim and covering two thirds of the top. I smell caramel, milk chocolate, and salt. I'm tasting milk chocolate and caramel. The mouth is silky smooth and viscous.

Great stout. Pours a small brown head, smells of dark chocolate, caramel and coffee. Taste is full of roasted caramel and sweet chocolate coffee malts

 

 

 

 

On tap. Poured out an opaque, jet-black color with a small, light brown head of foam. It smelled of lots of sweet caramel. Very sweet caramel, not much salt and low on the roasty stout flavors.

Taste: smooth with a slick mouth-feel, caramel candy sweet, hint of smokey malt and chocolate cake. Cocoa and caramel nose. Black, opaque, with tan soft foam and some lace. Medium body. Dessert stout. 30 IBUs

This brew, deep black, with a tan head is a nice-looking beer. The aroma is of sweet caramel...almost like ice cream and toffee. There are some roasted scents underneath. The beer is balanced. I love the caramel flavors, along with the roasted grain. Full in body and very satisfying.

Foamy and creamy. Caramel stout at front end. Salty at the back. Tastes as advertised.