Black Star
Alley Kat Brewing Company
- From:
- Alley Kat Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- English Stout
- ABV:
- 6.6%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4 | pDev: 5.25%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 23, 2016
- Added:
- Nov 05, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.97/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.97/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
650ml bottle, the latest in Alley Kat's Back Alley Brews series of one-off productions. All Alberta ingredients, as per the label, which doesn't actually say 'Black Star' - it just shows one.
This beer pours a fairly solid black abyss, with scant red cola basal edges, and three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and sort of creamy beige head, which leaves some nice spooky forest tree branch lace around the glass as it lazily sinks away.
It smells of roasted grainy and biscuity caramel malt, rather bitter cocoa powder, a bit of free-agent ashiness, subtle black licorice notes, ethereal cafe-au-lait, and some very tame leafy, earthy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a separate toasted biscuity character, medium milk chocolate, a bit of well-creamed coffee, some indistinct dark orchard fruitiness, and more laid-back leafy, weedy, and floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate for the supportive job at hand, via its lunch-pail frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a nice airy creaminess kicking in once things warm up a tad. It finishes off-dry, the roasted caramel, cocoa, and understated fruity esters walking us out the back door.
Overall, this is a very tasty and engaging straight-up stout, just toasty goodness all around, which, while limiting the complexity, still makes for a very drinkable and enjoyable affair, for when, as suggested, the season is changing. Unfortunately for that musing, today it was +15C around here, in November! Not that I'm complaining about anything on either front.
Nov 06, 2016This beer pours a fairly solid black abyss, with scant red cola basal edges, and three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and sort of creamy beige head, which leaves some nice spooky forest tree branch lace around the glass as it lazily sinks away.
It smells of roasted grainy and biscuity caramel malt, rather bitter cocoa powder, a bit of free-agent ashiness, subtle black licorice notes, ethereal cafe-au-lait, and some very tame leafy, earthy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a separate toasted biscuity character, medium milk chocolate, a bit of well-creamed coffee, some indistinct dark orchard fruitiness, and more laid-back leafy, weedy, and floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate for the supportive job at hand, via its lunch-pail frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a nice airy creaminess kicking in once things warm up a tad. It finishes off-dry, the roasted caramel, cocoa, and understated fruity esters walking us out the back door.
Overall, this is a very tasty and engaging straight-up stout, just toasty goodness all around, which, while limiting the complexity, still makes for a very drinkable and enjoyable affair, for when, as suggested, the season is changing. Unfortunately for that musing, today it was +15C around here, in November! Not that I'm complaining about anything on either front.
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