Solstice Stout
Kuhnhenn Brewing Company in Clinton Township, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Rotating|
Score
7.15
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Pours a pitch black body and a decent brown head that doesn't last long. Aroma's of fruity alcohol, bourbon, molasses, roasty, light umami. Retronasal: alcohol, something weird that I don't know how to describe, salmiak, molasses. Flavour is heavy sweet, fruity, and with a touch of roast. Medium bodied (at best). Quite sharp alcohol. Long finish, molasses, light bitter, light roasty. Nice, but very strong (no mention of the ABV) and no great balance.
TimE (9927) reviewed Solstice Stout from Kuhnhenn Brewing Company 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Dark brown color. Pitch black color. Sweet mouth not that balance, brown sugar and roasted malt. Very simple. Not that impressive
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Taster showing pitch black center, thin dark brown rims, and sparse latte colored foam. The nose shows strong intense notes of brandy and spices. The palate is well carbonated and full bodied/slick. Moderately sweet and brown sugar forward with a moderately intense dark coffee bitterness.
superspak (10209) reviewed Solstice Stout from Kuhnhenn Brewing Company 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5
7900th review! 12 ounce bottle into snifter, 2018 vintage. Pours dense pitch black color with a small dense dark tan head with great retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of huge dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, molasses, toffee, fudge, brownie/cake batter, raisin, plum, prune, fig, cherry, date, sherry, toasted oak, roasted nuts, dark/brown bread crust, and biscuit; with lighter notes of vanilla, licorice, bourbon, coconut, smoke, char, leather, tobacco, herbal, grass, and yeast/roast/toast/oaky earthiness. Some increasing booze in the aromas, but not overwhelming. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/black/roast/bready malts, fruity yeast, oak barrels, and light earthy hop notes; with big strength. Taste of huge dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, molasses, toffee, fudge, brownie/cake batter, raisin, plum, prune, fig, cherry, date, sherry, toasted oak, roasted nuts, dark/brown bread crust, and biscuit; with lighter notes of vanilla, licorice, bourbon, coconut, smoke, char, leather, tobacco, herbal, grass, and yeast/roast/toast/oaky earthiness. Light herbal, grassy, roast, charcoal bitterness; and bourbon/oak tannin spiciness on the finish. Lingering notes of dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, molasses, toffee, fudge, brownie/cake batter, dark fruit, sherry, toasted oak, roasted nuts, dark/brown bread crust, biscuit, vanilla, licorice, bourbon, coconut, smoke, char, leather, tobacco, herbal, grass, and yeast/roast/toast/oaky earthiness on the finish for a while. Amazing complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/black/roast/bready malts, fruity yeast, oak barrels, and light earthy hop flavors; with an amazing hop/roast bitter/sweet, and bourbon/oak spiciness balance; with no cloying, acrid, astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering hop/char bitterness and bourbon/oak spiciness. Light-medium carbonation and very full body; with a very smooth, creamy/silky/velvety, and lightly sticky/chalky/tannic mouthfeel that is insane. Minimal warming alcohol for 16%, with no barrel booze lingering after the finish. Overall this is an insane barrel aged blended imperial stout! All around amazing complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/black/roast/bready malts, fruity yeast, oak barrels, and light earthy hop flavors; extremely smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the huge ABV, with the mildly bitter/charred/tannic/drying finish. Perfectly balanced super rich malts, fruity yeast, and oak barrel presence/integration; with solid earthy hops against sweetness. This states a blend of aged ales, so probably has the 4D with other of their well known strong ales. A really mind blowing offering, and world class style example as expected. The overall complexity is unreal.