Midnight Snack - Coffee And Donuts
Abomination Brewing Company

 

 

 

16 oz can from Tavour. Pours black, little bit of head disappears. Aroma is all roast, coffee and dark chocolate. Taste brings milk sugar, light vanilla and other sugary flavors (that must be the donuts). Bitter up front, sweet at the back.

 

Pours black with a finger and a half of dark caramel colored foam. Aroma is roasty coffee, chocolate, cocoa nibs, vanilla bean and some cloyingly sweet sugar. A slightly bitter opening becomes cloyingly sweet at the finish. Flavor profile is chocolate, coffee, caramel, toffee and molasses with overcooked doughnuts and light vanilla beans in the background. Roasty and toasty malts break it up a bit. Mouth feel is medium in thickness with a lightly chalky grain within the creamy texture. Overall, lots going on within this one, that would be a bit too sweet for some seeking a stout.

Served in a 15.5oz Spiegalau tulip from a 16oz can.

 

A - Pours a motor oil black with a one finger dark brown head. Light soapy lacing.

S - Aroma coffee, vanilla and roasted malts.

T - The taste is coffee, vanilla, dark chocolate, caramel, roasted malts and molasses.

M - Full body with medium/low carbonation. Creamy mouthfeel with a soft dry finish.

O - Solid stout.

 

 

A: Thick and oily pour, with almost chocolate milk highlights exit the bottle to produce a dense black offering. Not much head formation or sightings here, some dark tan-reddish tones are slight and scarce before succumbing to a near polished surface. The highlight was the thick and slurry nature that it showed exiting the can almost like motor oil.

S: Fresh and oil coffee roast fill the nose, along with some dry vanilla, marshmallow and chocolate malts. Sweet black plums add highlights, along with some silty campfire ash, and some smokey wood tones. Sweet caramelized raisins and figs, along with some chocolate and almost oreo cookie like hints. Milky rich, fresh warm doughnuts, and an earthy bitterness caps things off.

T: Again, a big oily roasty coffee flavor, filled with marshmallow, dry vanilla, and rich chocolate highlights. Although not as complex as the nose, it had some almonds, smokey malts, and silty roast bitterness that did not disappoint. Burnt bread and doughnuts, caramelized sweetness and silty smoothness.

M: Silty smooth texture, oily and full bodied. Miky coffee roast.

O: A well rounded, thick and rich dark milk stout, filled with coffee roast, smooth malt batter, but is very smooth. At 12.4% it is especially smooth and the alcohol does not interfere with the fine accents of the vanilla, and milky chocolate. A huge stout and perhaps a Halloween treat better suited for the cooler weather.

 

A- Tallboy into a whiskey glass with a pitch black body and a very, very dark cocoa cap that is basically black and charred itself. The head has a creamy and foamy texture and fairly good retention after peaking at a half inch high. Spotty lacing.

S- Chocolate and donuts and to a somewhat lesser extent some coffee. Bold cocoa leads things off with a blend of bitter dark chocolate, cocoa powder and some sweet milk chocolate hints. After the chocolate kicks in the donuts take over and you can really get the baked good notes in the aroma with that classic sweet, fresh donut aroma. A touch of dark roast coffee but it doesn't really shine through what seems like heavy sweetness and a dessert-esque flavor profile. Roast barley and malty aroma overall.

T- The grain becomes much more central to the beer on the taste buds as things shift towards a charred, roasted barley profile above all else with the chocolate notes also playing a big part alongside that. Bitter dark chocolate and espresso lead things off with toasted nuts, toffee, vanilla sweets, toast, caramel, charred grain, roast barley, chocolate malt and a fair bit of sweetness. A hint of donuts beyond the bitter and charred things and a touch of booze as well. Very much about the roast barley and chocolate.

MF- Heavy body that is slick and has a slightly creamy texture but is smooth on the whole. Carbonation level is medium and it ends with a roasty bitterness.

The aroma had the donuts and heavy roast grains that gave a ton of dark chocolate off. The flavor shifted towards the coffee and everything roasty. Good but lacks some balance in the flavor profile.