The Hotchkiss Six Domestic Stout
Little Creatures Brewing Company
- From:
- Little Creatures Brewing Company
- Australia
- Style:
- Oatmeal Stout
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +2 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.77 | pDev: 7.43%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- May 29, 2019
- Added:
- Jun 06, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 4
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Ratings by Andrewharemza:
Reviewed by Andrewharemza from Australia
3.9/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.9/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
From bottle, pours a cola like colour with a small tan coloured head. Aroma coffee, chocolate, malt. Taste coffee, chocolate, pretty standard really. But very nice and easy drinking.
Jul 15, 2016More User Ratings:
Reviewed by pattysykes from Australia
3.52/5 rDev -6.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.5
3.52/5 rDev -6.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours a brownish cola, small tan head that dissipates quickly but leaves a lace.
Sweet malty aroma with hints of coffee.
Next-to-no carbonation, malt sweetness, coffee and chocolate. A bit of sourness in there too so not a heavy flavour.
Body is quite weak for the style. Leaves a sweet malty aftertaste with a bit more of that sourness.
A little unimpressed by this outing from a usually excellent brewer that's known for its seasonal stouts. The carbonation (none) is good, but there's not a lot going on in this beer. It's a nice, easy-drinking stout that would appeal to people who don't usually drink stouts. Nothing worth writing home about though.
Nov 30, 2016Sweet malty aroma with hints of coffee.
Next-to-no carbonation, malt sweetness, coffee and chocolate. A bit of sourness in there too so not a heavy flavour.
Body is quite weak for the style. Leaves a sweet malty aftertaste with a bit more of that sourness.
A little unimpressed by this outing from a usually excellent brewer that's known for its seasonal stouts. The carbonation (none) is good, but there's not a lot going on in this beer. It's a nice, easy-drinking stout that would appeal to people who don't usually drink stouts. Nothing worth writing home about though.
Reviewed by heygeebee from Australia
3.4/5 rDev -9.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.4/5 rDev -9.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
So I had a few schooners of this on tap the other night and it was well received, so I bought a sixer.
Have to say, at home writing a review, its an OK beer, but it is a seasonal, thus 'special'????
It's a bit mainstream tbh, but at least it's well carbonated - ie not - to style
Next!
(I do miss the $6.95 pint bottles of the seasonal, must admit.)
Jul 03, 2016Have to say, at home writing a review, its an OK beer, but it is a seasonal, thus 'special'????
It's a bit mainstream tbh, but at least it's well carbonated - ie not - to style
Next!
(I do miss the $6.95 pint bottles of the seasonal, must admit.)
Reviewed by WoodBrew from Ohio
3.95/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.95/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
At the brewery once again and I couldn't be more relaxed. The Hotchkiss pours a nearly opaque dark with khaki head that is leaving a lace. The scent has earth and almost a sea water like hint....thinking lIke oyester stouts. The taste is toasted corn and roast. The Mouthfeel is medium in body with good carbonation. Overall this is a solid offering and I like it.
Jun 24, 2016
Reviewed by doktorhops from Australia
3.31/5 rDev -12.2%
look: 2.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 3
3.31/5 rDev -12.2%
look: 2.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 3
So Little Creatures are not the same brewer that they used to be what with now being owned by Lion/Nathan, which is owned by Kirin - it’s like being bought by a macro that was bought out by a macro - I’m sure that there’s a little-fish/big-fish/even-bigger-fish analogy in there... anyway, point is: When a powerful brewer that makes its money from margins buys you out you are now beholden to their “making money from margins” philosophy - it’s totally anti-craft. Craft beer is about quality at almost any expense. So how does this relate to this “Hotchkiss Six”? I guess we’ll soon find out [spoiler: not well!].
Poured from a 330ml bottle into a nonic pint.
A: Presents with a deep opaque cola body and a foamy tan half centimetre head - for something brewed with oats it is suspiciously thin overall - not even close to looking as good as any other Oatmeal Stouts I’ve tried (have a look at a Samuel Smiths or St-Ambroise and you’ll see what I’m talking about). 5/10.
S: Aroma is more laudable with notes of coffee cherry, dark chocolate and chicory upfront - this is right there in Stout territory with roasted goodness. Hints of smoky/earthy notes too - not bad at all - though still detectably thin. 8/10.
T: An easy going Stout with almost no challenge whatsoever - a far cry from the original Dreadnaught [seriously just bring back original Dreadnaught already f*^kers!] - flavour is a sort of nebulous sweet/sour/bitterness that is difficult to describe due to the lack thereof. It’s like death by a thousand hints of chocolate/coffee cherries/chicory with a floral/earthy/tobacco hop kiss - which sounds awesome but it’s really not because of all the wasted promise. 7/10.
M: Wow, no detectable oat texture - a wafer-thin (alright mid to light but given the style wafer-thin) body with a flat UK pub carbonation. 4/10.
D: Little Creatures have, as expected by their macro overlords, played it safe with this one. Too safe? F#&k yes! Really it is to be expected by a craft brewer being bought out by a macro brewer but nonetheless disappointing because (on a personal level) Little Creatures Pale Ale was the craft beer that got me into craft beer - without it I may never have written an incredible 265,000+ words on the subject of glorious beer, and yet here we are: 2016 and Little Creatures are releasing this pile of average on us, seems a shame to see the once-mighty reduced to a macro mediocre. 6/10.
Food match: Roast beef, roast potatoes, carrots, broccoli and Yorkshire pudding.
Jun 06, 2016Poured from a 330ml bottle into a nonic pint.
A: Presents with a deep opaque cola body and a foamy tan half centimetre head - for something brewed with oats it is suspiciously thin overall - not even close to looking as good as any other Oatmeal Stouts I’ve tried (have a look at a Samuel Smiths or St-Ambroise and you’ll see what I’m talking about). 5/10.
S: Aroma is more laudable with notes of coffee cherry, dark chocolate and chicory upfront - this is right there in Stout territory with roasted goodness. Hints of smoky/earthy notes too - not bad at all - though still detectably thin. 8/10.
T: An easy going Stout with almost no challenge whatsoever - a far cry from the original Dreadnaught [seriously just bring back original Dreadnaught already f*^kers!] - flavour is a sort of nebulous sweet/sour/bitterness that is difficult to describe due to the lack thereof. It’s like death by a thousand hints of chocolate/coffee cherries/chicory with a floral/earthy/tobacco hop kiss - which sounds awesome but it’s really not because of all the wasted promise. 7/10.
M: Wow, no detectable oat texture - a wafer-thin (alright mid to light but given the style wafer-thin) body with a flat UK pub carbonation. 4/10.
D: Little Creatures have, as expected by their macro overlords, played it safe with this one. Too safe? F#&k yes! Really it is to be expected by a craft brewer being bought out by a macro brewer but nonetheless disappointing because (on a personal level) Little Creatures Pale Ale was the craft beer that got me into craft beer - without it I may never have written an incredible 265,000+ words on the subject of glorious beer, and yet here we are: 2016 and Little Creatures are releasing this pile of average on us, seems a shame to see the once-mighty reduced to a macro mediocre. 6/10.
Food match: Roast beef, roast potatoes, carrots, broccoli and Yorkshire pudding.
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