Smallcakes: Tiramisu
Foreign Exchange Brewing Company

Look - black thick great lasting tan head with great rimming and lacing
Smell - so much espresso coffee then caramel
Taste - chocolate coffee caramel blend, pretty sweet slight bitter
Feel - medium full body creamy very light carb
Overall - pretty nice

 

Pours just about any other stout in this abv range.

Smells like you'd think, heavy coffee and chocolate.

For the drinkability, comes in strong with coffee and chocolate, the cream comes in on the mouthfeel.

Overall solid but not amazing.

16oz can pours a liquid darker and more viscous than any beer I've seen. The inky black liquid is topped by a rich, deeply cocoa-brown head that sticks around for some time. The aroma is dominated by espresso, with some malt and chocolate peeking in. Mouthfeel is thick, viscous, and slighly sticky, and the alcohol gives heat throughout the sip, but especially at the end. The alcohol is also perceptible in the flavor. The flavor starts pretty sweet, but by no means overly sweet, then moves to chocolate and espresso flavors which fade quickly into alcohol and hops flavor. The flavor ends with alcohol heat and flavor and some decent bitterness from both the coffee and the hops. The aftertaste develops syrupy, almost like molasses, after the bitterness fades out.

Pretty good beer, but I don't specifically taste tiramisu at all. I think a tiramisu flavored beer would do better as a normal-strength stout, a porter, or even a brown ale. I also think there should have been more emphasis on the cocoa and less on the coffee, as this beer ends up tasting mostly like a extra-strong coffee stout with added sweetness. Overall, tasty beer but it misses the mark it was aiming for.

I don't really care for overly sweet beers but I did want to try this one. It was overly sweet as expected. That aside I did enjoy the massive chocolate and coffee flavor in it but it really kind of lacked the whole Tiramisu flavor.