Jamaica Stout
3.2
171 reviews
Kingston, Jamaica
Community reviews
Bottle. Dark pour. Complex beer. First impression of the flavor was fruit punch. Flavor combines a few different sweet flavors chocolate, lactose, and fruit, with a little bit of coffee flavor as well. Aroma is the same amalgam of flavors as are present in the flavor of the beer.
Thanks to bu11zeye for sharing this bottle. Pours a dark brown color with a tan head. Aroma is full of roasted malt and cocoa with a touch of lactose. Flavor is chocolate, light smoke and roasted malt. Medium mouthfeel and medium carbonation.
(12oz bottle) Pours a mahogany body with a small tan head. Aroma of graham cracker, chocolate, some vinous, and roasted grain. Flavor of chocolate, graham cracker, light ash, and coffee.
black pour with a khaki head. nose is roasted malts, chocolate, alcohol, and fudge. nice palate, roasted malts, chocolate, light coffee, and a smooth finish.
Aroma is roasted/complex malts and a mix of chocolate and a hint of sweetness. The flavor is roasted malts, coffee, notes of chocolate and sweetness and a bitter/slightly rough around the edges finish.
12oz bottle 9/22/12 (Binny’s Naperville)-42° in Snifter.Pours black with a small tan ring for a head. Aroma of roasted malt and coffee. Taste of sweetness, coffee, hops, and chocolate. This medium to full bodied brew is not bad but nothing to write home about.
(12oz bottle) clear brown, cream, head. Nose of rich chocolate, light alcohol, taste of cocoa, spicy, light body, cocoa finish.
Healthy tasting taste that feels nice to drink, but doesn’t have an overbearing taste.
Pours nearly black, with a short, quick dark tan head.
Scent is coffee, chocolate, a hint of wine and alcohol.
Taste is almost candied sweet..toffee-sugary roast, a little darkly fruited.
Very enjoyable beer.....nice busy flavour.
330ml bottle pours black in color with a small light brown head that leaves a few specks of lacing on the glass. Aroma is dark roasted malts with some chocolate and coffee and mild hops. Taste is chocolate malty sweetness with a roasty malt bitterness and mild hoppy bitterness. Medium to heavy body with mild carbonation. A very nice surprise as it well exceeded my expectations.
Completely black underneath a giant, frothy, khaki head. Smells pretty good, too, with lots of toffee and some bit alcohol notes. Mouthfeel is surprising light and slick, but there are a lot of flavors here to like. Toffee, rum, brown sugar, big alcohol bite, and at 7.6% ABV, that’s not surprising. The hops are kind of funky, and not necessarily in a good way.
I didn’t have big expectations, but this is unique and pretty tasty. Worth giving a toss
Bottle/12oz - Pours a very dark black/brown in color with a very small tan head that faded to almost nothing. Aroma is of coffee, chocolate and dark roasted malts... some bready yeast too. Flavor is slightly bitter with a hint of coffee, some nice chocolate and too darkly roasted malts... burnt tasting. Finish fades from slightly sweet to start then to bitter and astringent at the end. OK, not great...
bread, coffee, smoke, brown, brown foam, rocky head, medium sweetness, very bitter, medium sourness, salty, oily feel, medium body, bitter,
Pours very dark brown with a thin light brown head. The nose is licorice, chocolate, dark malt, then some sour and vinegar notes. Taste is dark roasted malts, bitter chocolate, licorice, slightly sour with some booze on the finish. Very unique beer.
Pours basically black with a very small head that fizzes out like soda.
The aroma is molasses, maple syrup, and plenty of espresso.
The flavor is banana up front with lots of roast and dark chocolate. Odd flavors of burnt sugar, burnt toast, burnt coffee, burnt everything are on display. This one starts very sweet but ends dry and bitter. The beer is a little booze and has an oddness I just can’t quite put my finger on.
I love trying these Forigen Stouts, they’re always so funky/dirty/not tailored to the tastes of most beer loving folks. Even if they’re a little beyond just challenging, they’re always enjoyable.
12oz bottle. Pours black with a low head. Aroma of sweet roasted malts, liquorice and chocolate. Taste is dark roasty malts, light fruity and very nice drinkability.
Bottle. Dark black when poured. Aroma is roasted malt and toffee. The taste is actually really solid, little watery with the toffee and roasted malt flavor. This is a very inconspicuous looking brew and didn’t expect much, but this is surprisingly good. Definitely recommend, and wow it hides the abv well! 7.6% alcohol.
WOW... Good stuff! Compared to most stouts I have tried, it was just a little sweeter and just a little less bitter. And really no alcohol burn which was very surprising at 7.6%! Two of these put me in a very mellow mood... I might be hooked!
12 ounce bottle Pours a very dark brown with an average tan head. Aroma of chocolate, malt, coffee and licorice. Taste is similar with some alcohol coming through. Decent.
Black body/ tan head. Big black licorice, tobacco, dark chocolate aromas. Medium body with soft co2. Nice lightly sweet black licorice flavors with dark chocolate, mild smoke dark roast malt--good
This is a tasty export stout. Head is very thin and nose has more hop aroma. Chocolate, roast, and some astringency. Body is good with coffe finish.
A decent foreign stout. I recommend this brew for those maybe trying darker beers for the first time. A little thin, not as sweet for a typical foreign stout. Hard to distinguish the balance, but you can taste the roasted malt, dark chocolate. Slight hoppy finish, not strong. Again, decent, drinkable.
The bottle I sampled had different body and neck labels than what was shown on RateBeer,
this beer had a brown-black pour and made an initial one to two finger tan and brown colored head, even though this beer is opaque, I see a lot of bubbles streaming up the sides of the glass (appears to be generous carbonation in this beer), left some spots and small fingers of lacing on the sides of the glass, and there was a thin film and ring of dark brown sediment in the bottle,
the aromas were roasted malt, chocolate and coffee with some dark fruit esters of prune and raisin, faint licorice-anise in the background,
also, there was caramel, malt and dark fruit sweetness,
the flavors consisted of roasted malt, dry chocolate and some coffee with malt and brown sugar sweetness,
the finish had little bitterness (which may been a roasted malt bitterness), and a touch of alcohol warmth, very faint after the finish,
the mouth feel was less than I expected,
a beer with a nice aroma and flavor.
Mmm, not bad. Not quite a sweet stout and drinkable. I let it warm a tad before pouring and then it had a nice, thick, creamy, foamy, frothy, tan head that mostly faded fast and a little lace. Color is opaque dark brown except in the bottom of the glass where it’s narrow and there I can see it’s a clear garnet. Aroma isn’t too complex, just basically what I’d expect to find: roasty, malt, toffee, cocoa, caramel. Flavror’s more or less the same with a little sweetness balance by the roasty burnt and carbonic acids. Body is good, ditto carbonation. Finish is balanced too with a little booze and of medium length. A slow session so I don’t get wasted.
12oz bottle pours dark brown/black with thin tan head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, and molasses. Taste has an astringent bitterness that is really off putting, roasted malts and chocolate taste almost chemical.
A black pour with some faint red highlights and a tan head. The aroma has some vanilla, alcohol, and a bit woody. The full body has a creamy texture with average carbonation. The taste is sweet with a slight dryness in the finish.
Been a while since I had a Foreign Stout, this one toed the line stylewise between the alcohol content and fruitiness of a typical foreign stout and the dryness and coffee thinness of a dry stout. But I enjoyed it. Poured black. Aroma was mostly coffee. Flavor was coffee, a bit of chocolate, and a light fruit character. Light bodied, hid the 7.6 very well. Not spectacular, but quite solid and enjoyable.
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a black color with a small foamy brown head that faded fairly quickly. The aroma was faint licorice and molasses. The flavor was roasty and dryish with notes of licorice, wood, bourbon and fruity hops. Medium length finish with roasty malts, wood and licorice lingering. A bit thin in body for a stout. Ok.
Very dark brown, almost black, with a medium-sized beige head that doesn’t last. Creamy, chocolate-y taste, with some strong coffee notes as well. Medium bitterness, not much aroma.
12 oz brown twist off.
It pours a dark brown with a nice looking tan head. The head is fluffy and sticks for a bit.
The smell is reminiscent of malt liquor, but in a good way. It has that nutty alcoholic scent along with a hint of cocoa.
The taste is interesting to say the least. It has a nice bit of that roasted malt flavor that has almost a chocolate/cinnamon/wood character and a blast of sweetness. The malt liquor notes come through a little bit with the alcohol not being completely hidden, but compared to a malt liquor this is one smooth brew.
Not bad.
Serving type: bottle
Reviewed on: 01-05-2011 04:46:00