Hakim Stout
For brewing Hakim Stout Munich and Kara malts are used giving it a special taste and dark color (no artificial colorant is used). The brewery is the only producer of Stout beer in the country.
2.7
194 reviews
Harar, Ethiopia
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8 feb 2013, bottle. Light brown w/ some orange hints. Nose is sickly sweet malt, raisin, ovaltine. Not that enticing. Thin body and mildly fizzy. Grape jelly, wet stale bread. Not a stout. More of a sting ale that isn't strong n
12oz bottle. Looks dark. Aroma of slightly roasted malts, water, pale malts and weird notes and some hops. Flavor the same. Average texture. Worth trying I guess.
Sweet aroma and beautiful color. A honey taste straight off the bat. Smooth but a boring finish....good for a spicy meal!
Bottle. Not quite stout-like in appearance, more of a muddy red brown with a tan head. Prunes shine in both the aroma and flavor with some slightly sweet caramel. Comes across as a watery dunkel or a dark lager. Thinner to almost watery body. Still, not all that bad.
interesting distinct flavor, like a minimally sweet dark honey, pleasant moldy dark aroma, I wish the alcohol and flavor were a little stronger
Pours a murky brown-mahogany hue, with a thin and short-lived tan head; very light color for the style. Not the only departure from style, it turns out. There’s a nice aroma of roasted malt, but mainly medium roast, with little of the dark malt aroma expected in a true stout. Nor is there any chocolate or coffee. Nicely fruity with a hints of yeast and honey. It has plenty of medium roasted sweet malt flavor, with faint hints of smoke and peat (think Scottish Ale) and more than a hint of dark fruit. A fine, rich aftertaste lingers on and on. The body is true to style: full, with good medium-low carbonation.
A nice, unique beer worthy of a recommendation; just don’t expect a true stout. Even though the bottle was allowed to warm for 10-15 minutes before opening, the beer improved a bit with additional warming.
8/10/12. 12oz bottle from the gas station by my house - Stop N Shop or something of that sort - it’s a Sunoco. Uhh... murky brown pour, very light, with a soapy khaki head. Tootsie Roll chocolate essence with tartness and apples. Bitter chocolate and apples in the flavor. Very light mouthfeel. Ugh.
Funny beer, not very stout like. If you didnt tell me what it was I would have guessed it as a Eastern Euro dark lager. Caramelly grainy sweet, just a wee hint of chocolate or roast, virtually no detectable hopping. Overall very sweet, trending toward a thin mouthfeel and finish. Very mediocre, unrefined almost homebrewish. Brown color with a tinge of red, small head.
Bottle @ Delirium Cafe. Clear reddish brown with a beige head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and roasted malt. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and roasted moderate bitter finish. 180712
Poured from bottle hardly any head. Aroma of malty sweetness licorice. Taste sweet licorice. Pretty light bodied for a stout. Overall not bad a lighter sweet stout went well with the Ethiopian dinner.
33cl bottle (5,5% ABV) at Delirium Café, Brussels. Tasted some time after the best before date. Pours dark brown with a beige head, much lighter in colour than expected. Sweet aroma of caramel with some roasted malt. Medium to light body, and quite different from what I expected. Sweet and not so much flavour, but quite drinkable. Fun to try, but I don’t think I will buy this again.
(Backlog: tasted 2011-03-19 - [Produced March 2010 - best before February 2011])
Pours a dark brown with tan head from the bottle; more like a black lager than stout. Aroma is of licorice, roasted malts, and some coriander. Taste follows suit but not as intense as smell. Well balanced and clean finish; good beer, but not quite as thick as I like for stouts.
Black brown with tan head. Licorice, mild caramel, roast, alcohol aroma and flavor. Medium bodied with medium bitterness.
First of all, it doesn’t look like a stout - it’s murky brown, not even close to black, and not much head - a little smear of beige foam. Smells like coffee (a little) and brown sugar. Very sweet - some fruity notes, and some coffee. Weird.
Würziger, etwas oxidierter Beginn. Frisch, geringe Süße, mild. Gering alkoholisch, harzig. Süßlich bleibend, etwas schokoladig. Nettes, nicht sonderlich spannendes Bier. 7/11/11/9/9/9
Bottle at animal kingdom. Poured hazy brown with a fading tan head. Good lacing for a plastic cup. Not a bad beer but anything is good after a long day with kids.
Color is dark red, more like bock or very dark ale. Not even as dark as schwarzbier. Smell is malty. Aroma is similar to bock and fairly messy malt liquir. I cannot say I am fan of this beer.
poured cloudy brown with no real head even though it was poured aggressively. smelled malts, light chocolate and possibly bananas. tasted sweet chocolate and malts not bad
Slightly murky red-brown with a thin, patchy head. Fruity-sweet nose. Soft, somewhat syrupy texture; light carbonation. Richly sweet with elements of caramel, light molasses, corn and cola. Malty and worty, too. Only has a mild bitterness, which doesn’t really balance out all the sweetness. Not horrible, but it has some odd things going on and it’s too sweet and unbalanced.
330ml bottle pours brown in color with a small beige head that left some thin spotted lacing on the glass. Aroma is light roasted malts and hints of chocolate and coffee. Taste is a caramel malty sweetness with some light roast bitterness from the malts and coffee and very mild hop presence. Medium body with minimal carbonation. A decent sweet stout but would be better with some more body and complexity.
Poured into red wine glass (all they had) at an Ethiopian restaurant (Addis) in Richmond, VA. Sweet and raisiny aroma. Appearance is amber prune juice. Head is flimsy and dissipates rapidly with no lacing. Taste...well, it’s not a stout, so if I look at it like a stout, it sucks. It’s a prune/fig/raisin/vinegar flavor with a lousy finish. I rarely write these words, but it’s not worth finishing. I will leave it behind. Overall I would not have bought it except it was a beer I hadn’t tried before.
caramel, cereal, roasty, floral, barnyard, leather, smoke, skunky, brown, cloudy, minimal head, brown foam, medium sweetness, medium bitterness, medium body, thin feel, oily feel, astringent,
Bottle at Nile Ethiopian Restaurant, Orlando. Aroma filled with molasses. Flavor is more mild. Seems to be a dark amber or brown ale. Not terrible.
Bottle. Pours a minimal beige head, over a clear, dark brown (SRM 35) body...nose is molasses, brown sugar, hints of toffee/caramel, coffee, chocolate.....taste is molasses, brown sugar, toffee/caramel...mouth feel light, carbonation low. This is a pleasant, not particularly complex Sweet Stout it is a bit low in complexity, and overall strength to be a Foreign Stout. BJCP 7/3/12/4/7
9/26/11 hakim stout at lalibella.
hazy amber with a small ow head.
a is fruity...raisin, malt syrup, peppery spice/mild, woody maple-ish molassesness.
middle sweetness is followed by a mild bitterness, choco, nutty, caramel.
thin,sharp, crisp
def. not a traditional stout but it works quite well for a richer dark beer. certainly easy to drink.
6/2/6/3/12
Nice stuff, actually. Perhaps because I’ve been drinking too many lagers but this goes down right, Lots of roast and dark chocolate. Some coffee elements. Some raw barley grain.
Doesnt go down badly at all, combines well with the spicy Ethiopian and injera. had at the ethiopian house in bottle.
Aroma is smoky and malty, typical for a stout and appealing. I didn’t get a good look at the color, but it appears to be the typical opaque sable. Flavor is smoky with a hint of coffee, not as complex as most stouts I have tried but still enjoyable. Texture is firm-bodied and fizzy, leaving a smoky tingle. Think no good beer comes out of Africa? Guess again!
Not too bad at all. Malty and chocolate scent, watery texture, somewhat of a bitter flavour.
A great hot weather stout, lighter in body than most, but still malty and flavorful. More of a mix between a dunkle and a briwn ale than a stout, Hakim is brewed by the Harar Brewery in Ethiopia. Pours dark chestnut brown with a thick tan head. Nice lacing. Aroma of nuts, chocolate, toffee. Lightly sweet with a long malty finish.
25-Jul-2011- (Awash African Restaurant, Footscray) - Big sweet simple malt and light roast spirit fruit aroma. Good head and sheet lacing. Sweet lightly roasted malt. Light roasted steely thinish finish and sweet malt aftertaste with touch of pepper spice. Simplistic but still pleasant.