Berry Brunch Stout
Schlafly Beer - The Tap Room

12oz bottle poured into a snifter

A- pours black in color with a one-finger creamy light khaki head that has great retention

S- smells of charred dark herbal coffee, chocolate, blueberries, blackberries and a hint of vanilla

T- milk chocolate and herbal, peppery coffee up front with some charred notes. Mid-palate gives light undertones of blueberries and blackberries. The finish gives more coffee and chocolate, with a hint of vanilla. Lingers of coffee

M- medium body with moderate carbonation leads to a creamy mouthfeel that continues into a silky finish

 

 

Poured from the bottle into a nonic(k) pint glass.

Out of the bottle this forms wonderfully. Billowing creamy and nearly nitrous looking head, with a thick top and tall easily three finger height. The head while light tan, seems to almost have a purple/pink like hue to it strangely, and caps wonderfully. Body color is a deep walnut black, hints purple to red with clarity slightly under the light as well. Real neat looking stout.

This aroma just even gets better. Big whiff of fresh coffee beans, milky creamy almost vanilla sensing but a lighter sweetness instead. Fresh hints of berries and smorgasborg like, black, blue, red berried, mountain, it's nearly like a topped dessert minus the excessive sugary notes. Dark malts and cocoa mix in, like exotic breakfast cereal hinting, and a grain rich of high end chocolate bar flavor.

The palate sticks to the formula. Real light bodied but heavily supportive in an excellent fruity angle. Light bitterness, almost like on crack on the seeds of the blueberries and blackberries but without the harsh tannins. Light hints of dark chocolate and fruity cobbler quality all over the palate. Finishes porter light, crackling grains but with a coffee accent that is boosted with exceptional complimenting fruit.

A great coffee beer, with excellent complimenting fruit. Schlafly just never seems to disappoint me, if anything they fly under the radar and I go back to them and keep thinking, why don't I drink more from these guys? Sometimes a good standard holds the test of time.

Black in color with amber tinting. Heavy sediment is present. There’s fingernail of brown around the rim and covering the majority of the top. The aroma is of bitter coffee with blackberry undertones. I taste bitter coffee with blackberries somewhere on the mix. The mouth is oily and dry.

Appearance:
As expected, the body is an impermeable, glossy black. Not as expected, the usual white-beige head has a faint, purple hue; the kind of purple that shows when you plate a slice of juicy, blueberry pie. That color told me two things: 1.) this was brewed with real berries. 2.) I’m in for a treat.

Bouquet:
Coffee. And I mean bigtime coffee. Like, imagine dunking both your hands into one of those big, bean barrels and scooping up a mountain of them, just to take a whiff. Then imagine further you’ve done this in a bakery, where someone just pulled a fresh, blackberry pie from a distant oven.

Feel:
Bubbles are tiny but energetic in this placid, full-bodied stout. Carbonation rises to the top of the texture, while underneath the stout is smooth as sculpted stone

Taste:
Distinctly follows the aroma: an invigorating payload of black coffee, orbited by the darkly bittersweet tang of blackberry, then finishes with an earthy, blueberry undertone. After about 30 minutes—assuming you let it survive that long—lush, authentic blueberry gains remarkable strength in the aftertaste.

 

Pours an effervescent mahogany with a pinky of rapidly falling caramel colored head. Average head retention & lacing

S: Coffee & Blueberry in abundance

T: Follows the nose, plenty of dryness too up front. A little vanilla sneaks in with the coffee & berries. Finishes dry with coffee & blueberry

MF: Medium body, slight carbonation, needs little more body

Pretty solid, well done coffee themed stout, nice and easy to drink, a Brunch beer indeed

different flavor for a stout creamy but also hints of fruit

11/28/20....pours dark brown onto black with reddish tints and no foam residual. Coffee nose, slight fruity tinge too. Smooth creamy mouthfeel. Mellowed roasted taste, some cherry fruitiness. Hints of coffee. pretty good.

From a bottle.

L - A medium-dark brown body with a 1/2" inch dense light khaki (with tinges of reddish) foam head.

S - Notes of malt/coffee and wafts of berry with a solid stout backbone.

T - Taste is a delightful dance of coffee and berries playing off each other, although at times it can get a bit too berry-centric bitterness without enough counterbalance.

F - Feel is on the medium bodied side with a bit of crispness to it and lightly berry aftertaste. Quite drinkable as a result.

O - An enjoyable offering, although a bit more heft (either from some more malt or chocolate flavors) would really make this shine for myself.

 

 

Poured out of a bottle from their 2020 Stout Bout case. Dark like a proper stout but doesn't maintain a good head. Smells of lightly toasted coffee beans. The taste is where it really doesn't work for me. Berries and coffee are two competing flavors in this beer. It's like drinking sour coffee. Overall, it's drinkable but not exactly enjoyable. My least favorite in the Stout Bout case.

12oz bottle. Poured out an opaque, jet-black color with a small, light brown head of foam. It left minimal lacing on the glass. It smelled of light blueberry, coffee and roasted malt. Sweet blueberry taste with chocolate, coffee, toffee and roasted malt.

 

12oz bottle stamped 10/15/20 (about 6 weeks old) poured into a shaker pint at fridge temp 5.7% ABV 30 IBU per label. The beer pours mostly bright darker brown with tan colored head. The head recedes to an irregular ring and single layer of bubbles. Minimal streaky lacing. The aroma is cold brewed coffee and berries. The taste is tart blueberries & blackberries up front with the fruity coffee coming through mid to late palate before a hint of roasted malt and moderate (for the body) bitterness. The mouthfeel is thin to medium bodied with average carbonation and a dry finish. Overall, good. I would prefer more stout and less tart berry, but that's personal preference.

Roasty with notes of fruit on the nose. A little thin with a short lived white head. Redish brown color with yeast and other floaters, fruit puree? Tastes like a lightly fruited sweet stout.