BrewDog Semi - Skimmed Occultist
Our first small-batch canned release of 2017 is hot off the press and looks an absolute picture thanks to the amazing custom can artwork from the incredible guys at The Red Dress. We wanted to produce something of true decadence, so have packed into the recipe everything that we could think of to raise the body and make a smooth, truly redolent deep stout.
The four key additions exaggerate the mouthfeel and work with the blend of malts, oats and wheat to leave you with a beer that is best enjoyed on those dark, early-spring evenings when the weather is yet to break and the cold still seeps in around the door jambs. The result? In a word, opulence. The aromas start with cocoa and vanilla but it is the flavour that really holds the key to our latest small-batch release. Chocolate milkshake, roasty espresso and mellow vanilla blend into one in a smooth, full-bodied beer that is rich, deep and rewarding.
The four key additions exaggerate the mouthfeel and work with the blend of malts, oats and wheat to leave you with a beer that is best enjoyed on those dark, early-spring evenings when the weather is yet to break and the cold still seeps in around the door jambs. The result? In a word, opulence. The aromas start with cocoa and vanilla but it is the flavour that really holds the key to our latest small-batch release. Chocolate milkshake, roasty espresso and mellow vanilla blend into one in a smooth, full-bodied beer that is rich, deep and rewarding.
3.7
186 reviews
Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Community reviews
Canned, 330 ml at The Crown & Anchor, Brixton. Pours black with medium beige head. Roasted malts, chocolate, vanilla, lactic. Quite sweet, certainly too sweet for my taste. Soft carbonation, sweet. Syrupy. Medium bodied.
28/VIII/17 - 33cl can from a trade, shared @ Seb's Short Belgium Stay-over Tasting - BB: 11/III/18 (2017-1461) Thanks to Valerie and Neil for the trade!
Clear dark brown beer, small creamy light beige head, little stable, adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: sweet, some caramel, lots of coffee, lots of chocolate, pretty roasted. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: very sweet, lots of caramel, bit of coffee, bitter touch, sugary malts, some chocolate. Aftertaste: some vanilla, sugary, pretty roasted, coffee, caramel, chocolate, a little too sweet and sugary, but in all a very nice beer. No clue why it was so ridiculously expensive!
En fin humlet øl og en masse smag. Den har så meget af det hele at det er en rigtig nydelse.
Utter rubbish. Cloyingly sweet with no redeeming features as far as I'm concerned. Like drinking maple syrup. Avoid!
Kolsvart, stort brun-orange skum. Doft: Kola, chokladglass, sött rostat rågbröd, vanilj, kaffekaramell. Smak: Rostat rågbröd med kola och choklad, fruktsoda, lite russin och alkohol, billig choklad och vanilj glass.
Pours a pitch black color with medium white head. Aroma is sweet, with vanilla, chocolate, cinnamon, toffee and black sugar. Good body from the iats. Taste is very sweet, lots of vanilla, milky chocolate, coffee, caramel, toffee and lactose. Sweet ending, with a low but perisstent bitter aftertaste.
Can. Nearly black, seems clear, with airy beige froth. Roasted aroma, some chocolate and licorice. Sweet flavour, chocolate, vanilla, sweet licorice and coffee. Lactose sweetness.
Håndverkølfestival 2017. Black color with a tan head. Aroma is roasted malt, vanilla, coffee, toffee. Flavor is roasted malt, hop, vanilla, coffee, toffee, cocoa, chocolate. Full body. Very nice and easy drinkable beer.
Black sugar candy, cramel, roasted malt, a little smokey, chocolate, coffee, very little vanilla. light mouthfeel, sweetness like black sugar last very long.
BrewDog Semi - Skimmed Occultist
Aromă dulce și cu mult malț ușor prăjit, ceva malț ars, note de cafea, cacao/ciocolată cu lapte, ceva lemn ars și fructe negre de pădure.
Gust moderat și plăcut dulce (dulceață de fructe de pădure, prune și ceva caramelă), puțină cacao și vanilie, pe fundal ceva arsură (malț ars, ceva lemn ars) și ceva amăreală.
Bună și plăcută, o bere ”sweet stout” ceva mai sofisticată și bine făcută.
Aroma is vanilla, coffee, and chocolates. Taste is sweet, roasted malt, caramel, coffee, dark chocolates, and vanilla.
Can courtesy of and shared with Tderoeck. BB 11/03/2018.
Brune foncée, col beige.
Arôme est malté, caramel avec un petit rétro de lactose et de fines effluves de café. Le tout est léger.
Palais est malté, finement grillé et torréfié avec un apport café plaisant. Le côté lactose est marqué avec un rétro fin de chocolat en poudre.
Douceur de vanille + encore un léger ajout de lactose qui pour moi devient un peu trop dominant. Fini tire sur un léger collant aux lèvres avec un effet butterscotch et lactose qui revient à la charge.
Canette achet�e chez Amstein - De couleur noir avec une magnifique mousse fauve cr�meuse qui tient longtemps - Au nez des ar�mes de dessert au chocolat, chocolat, cacao, vanille, caf�, lactose, un nez gourmand qui annonce une bi�re lourde et onctueuse - En bouche c'est onctueux, tr�s chocolat, le caf� se fait plus discret mais la vanille reste bien pr�sente le lactose aussi le malt est difficile � cerner, l'alcool est pr�sent tr�s sucr�e presque �coeurante � la fin - Corp ample, amertume legere/moyenne, carbonation l�g�re, onctueuse et soyeuse, final chocolat vanille lactose - C'est impressionnant de douceur et de sucre, presque trop au final m�me si la bi�re est superbe c'est �coeurant
Can. It pours jet black with a creamy dense beige head. The aroma is sweet roasted with lactose and coffee notes. Vanilla and chocolate notes. Light toffee. The flavor is roasted with chocolate and vanilla notes. Coffee in the finish. Some cream notes from the lactose.
Pours almost completely black, slight red tinge. Smell is fairly sweet boozy, with hints of sweet treacle. A thickish medium body. Taste is very sweet up front, milky vanilla, leading to a warming alcohol hit, followed by a nice fairly bitter, dark finish. Overall, a lovely sweet stout, one that would definitely warm you up on a winters evening!
Rich coffee aroma with taste of roasted chocolate and caramel. Great stout.
Great aroma taste rich and decedent without being cloying smooth lactose some boozy warmth and a chocolate powder sweetness.
Sweet, roasted hints of smokiness. Lots of chocolate banana taste and marshmallows.
Can. Black with a medium head. Chocolate and coffee dominates.Smooth and powerful. Can design is a bit weird and frightening which I think is deliberate.
Worth trying.
A small taste from a can @ Matinkylä. OKS cellar tasting. Pours very dark brown with a medium tan head. Aroma is sweet roasted malts, lactose and vanilla. Flavor is sweet roasted malts, vanilla, lactose, coffee and hops. Excellent.
Aroma: Medium soft roasted notes, vanilla, coffee.Light alcohol
Appearance: Clear black body with red hues.
Flavour: Medium coffee, roasted. Medium-light vanilla, chocolate. Light caramel, alcohol, wood. Medium bitterness. Dry finish with lingering coffee and vanilla
Mouthfeel: Medium-full body with medium, smooth carbonation and a light warming.
Overall: Really good!
Can, poured.
16A. Sweet Stout
330ml can. Pitch black with one finger, quickly fading beige-brown head. Aroma is syrup, oversweetened coffee, liqorice, light soy sauce and light roasted malts. Taste is syrup, liqorice and bitter burnt malts. Medium mouthfeel, medium-strong carbonation for the style and burnt liqorice aftertaste.
Can. Black with semilasting foam. Chocolate, coffee, vanila and some roasted. Its sweet but not to sweet. A nice aftertaste. Good.
Jet black, small white head. Aroma of coffee, cocoa and vanilla bean. Taste is of dark chocolate, fresh coffee and dark fruits. Has a very nice aftertaste of liquorice and treacle with a creamy mouth feel. Very smooth texture. A well balanced stout. At £4.50 it’s on the steep side, but I would give it a go again even at that price.
06-AUG-2017, can @home, from Systembolaget Hansa Malmö.
Black with a very nice tan head that unfortunately dies within seconds leaving almost nothing.
Aroma is chocolate, vanilla. Taste is sweet roast, chocolate, vanilla. Fortunately not that lactic milky stuff that I do not like.
Sweet, bitter, soft carbonation. Very nice drink.
Coffee, chocolate and a lot of metal in the scent. The taste is a little coffee, a little chocolate with pepper or something strong in. No good bitterness that fills the upper part of the mouth long while. Believe this beer is defective. It tastes shady. Even alcohol in taste. Follow me @ Kung av öl @ Facebook for more pictures and ratings.
Can 0,33. Pours black with large off-white head, nice lacing. Cocoa, vanille, laktose, some coffee, faint caramel. Full body oily texture.
KØ17. Vinous aroma. Black colour, seems clear. Quite sweet flavour. Lactose and sweet liquorice. Creamy mouthfeel. Rather sweet but good.
33 cl can from Systembolaget. APPEARANCE: black with a dirty white head. NOSE: strong aroma of vanilla, chocolate, coffee, roasted malt, mocha, brown sugar. TASTE: very very sweet, moderate bitter. MOUTH: medium body, with a sticky texture. NOTE: too sweet
Inledningsvis lite sötare smaker av choklad, sötlakrits och fudge. Eftersmak med jord, aska och koltablett som är trevligare än den låter.