Breakfast With Squatch
Esker Hart Artisan Ales
- From:
- Esker Hart Artisan Ales
- New Jersey, United States
- Style:
- Imperial Pastry Stout
- ABV:
- 12.5%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.44 | pDev: 6.98%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 29, 2023
- Added:
- May 21, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Imperial stout with cacao nibs, vanilla beans, coffee, maple syrup, and cinnamon.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by ovaltine from Indiana
4.43/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.43/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Pours an onyx black color with a sudsy dark tan head that fights hard to linger. The has a lot going on, with rich milk chocolate notes, roasty coffee, maple, cinnamon, and an inordinate amount of vanilla.
The taste is like French Toast that’s soaked in cinnamon, with the maple quickly yielding to the strong cinnamon flavor, some vanilla following with a nice milk chocolate note, and roasty coffe notes and some booze at the back of the palate. Delicious.
The mouthfeel is rich, decadent, and creamy. This is a great representation of a pasty stout that could’ve gone to Cloyingville, but managed to avoid that by allowing the booze and roasty coffee notes to rule at the back of the palate. Really well executed, IMHO.
May 29, 2023The taste is like French Toast that’s soaked in cinnamon, with the maple quickly yielding to the strong cinnamon flavor, some vanilla following with a nice milk chocolate note, and roasty coffe notes and some booze at the back of the palate. Delicious.
The mouthfeel is rich, decadent, and creamy. This is a great representation of a pasty stout that could’ve gone to Cloyingville, but managed to avoid that by allowing the booze and roasty coffee notes to rule at the back of the palate. Really well executed, IMHO.
Reviewed by Roguer from Connecticut
4.01/5 rDev -9.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
4.01/5 rDev -9.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
Poor head production and retention - very little to speak of, actually. Fizzy 1/16th of an inch of dark brown foam produced, quickly fading to the barest hint of a topper, albeit with a nice lasting brown ring around the edge of the glass.
Nose hits all the right notes, hinting of French toast or pancakes. Cinnamon, maple syrup, coffee, red grape, caramel, toffee, chocolate, molasses, toast. It smells like a strongly flavored stout, but it still smells like a stout.
Similar presentation on the palate; very French toast-inspired, especially around the middle of the sip and through the back third. Up front, it's a bit of a melange of the flavors all trying to sort themselves out, more or less matching the nose. The maple syrup asserts itself mid-sip, along with a woodiness that is surprising but adds depth - no doubt amplified by the bitterness of the roast, the coffee, and even perhaps the cacao. Very chocolatey finish, with lingering maple, wood, and creamy vanilla. The cinnamon at times threatens to dominate, but never quite fully takes over.
Impressively thick and chewy on the palate. It doesn't have any graininess you might expect from a pastry stout, and indeed drinks more like a super thick, very potent dessert stout (or a breakfast stout dialed up to 11 - or in this case, 12.5).
A very worthy effort.
May 21, 2022Nose hits all the right notes, hinting of French toast or pancakes. Cinnamon, maple syrup, coffee, red grape, caramel, toffee, chocolate, molasses, toast. It smells like a strongly flavored stout, but it still smells like a stout.
Similar presentation on the palate; very French toast-inspired, especially around the middle of the sip and through the back third. Up front, it's a bit of a melange of the flavors all trying to sort themselves out, more or less matching the nose. The maple syrup asserts itself mid-sip, along with a woodiness that is surprising but adds depth - no doubt amplified by the bitterness of the roast, the coffee, and even perhaps the cacao. Very chocolatey finish, with lingering maple, wood, and creamy vanilla. The cinnamon at times threatens to dominate, but never quite fully takes over.
Impressively thick and chewy on the palate. It doesn't have any graininess you might expect from a pastry stout, and indeed drinks more like a super thick, very potent dessert stout (or a breakfast stout dialed up to 11 - or in this case, 12.5).
A very worthy effort.
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