Caribbean Chocolate Pancake Stack
Siren Craft Brew in Finchampstead, Berkshire, England 🏴
Stout - Milk / Sweet Special|
Score
7.64
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
33cl can (BB: 10/11/2021) from Etre Gourmet web shop. F: medium, tanned, average retention. C: dark, hazy, opaque. A: rich chocolate, cocoa, chocolate sauce, toffee, caramel, dried fruits, vanilla, bit coffee, complex. T: full malty base, cocoa, chocolate, toffee, maple syrup, dried fruits, vanilla, bit oxidized also but still very good, soft carbonation, nice balanced bitterness, fully enjoyed.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Can from Gedeelde Vreugde. Cloudy black, stable, foamy, beige head. Aroma of fondant, vanilla, smoking wood, maple syrup, prune, dried fig, coffee bean, clove, cinnamon. Taste has sweet prune, date and raisin in a malty body of maple & toffee, quite chocolatey too; bit smoky over a bitter base of coffee, wood & fondant. Herbal hoppy finish, slightly peppery, spicy notes of tonka & cinnamon lingering over chocolate and umami soy, softly warming brandy-like alcohol. Full body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Adequately balanced with a whole lot of things going on. Great!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Can. Sweet chocolate booze nose. Darkest brown, low brown head, medium full chewy cheap praline.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours black, small tanned head. Scent is tad herbal almost, trough the combo of coffee and maple. Taste is full, smooth, mild bitterness. Sweet, but not as sweet as expected. Cinnamon, maple is hidden. Somewhat of the green coffee I also found in the 2020 base version. Would have enjoyed more maple, if you use that in the name of the beer. --- Beer merged from original tick of Caribbean White Chocolate Pancake Stack on 29 Nov 2021 at 12:10 - Score: Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7. Original review text: Pours clear, slightly darker gold to copper. Scent is coffee, heavy roasted. Taste is medium full, roasted coffee. Medium body. Mild bitterness.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Another one of these new Caribbean chocolate cake variants by Siren, this one intending to evoke pancakes, apparently… Thanks Steve for sharing. Pale greyish beige, mousy, opening head, retaining well around the edge and in flat ‘veils’ in the middle, very dark chocolate brown robe – near black, but still with mahogany glow. Aroma of hot chocolate sauce, a lot of cinnamon, maple syrup, mocha ice cream, toffee, liquorice, latte macchiato, vanilla, espresso, cappuccino, caramel sauce, touch of incense. Sweet onset, dry raisins, very light umami accent, soft carb with full, oily, smooth body; caramelly and hazelnutty malt core with a bitter-chocolatey and eventually roasted coffee bitter edge, heavily sprinkled with cinnamon powder and the bitterness accentuated by a peppery hop dose; coffee and cinnamon linger with a dash of maple syrup, highlighted by very well-positioned, rum-like alcohol. Still carries a lot of ‘old school’ roasted bitterness, like the others in this series, but at the same time it manages to convey the pancake idea, albeit one with a whole lot of cinnamon on top. Delicious and very well made – among the better Siren brews I had to date, now that I come to think of it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Lovely stuff. Nutty, maple, chocolate. Complex, interesting! Bit smoky
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
330ml can. Black with a brown head. Aroma of chocolate, light maple, and woody notes. Taste is rich and chocolatey, cocoa powder, spices, woody, a little maple, burnt/roast malts, bittersweet. Medium bodied. Would've liked more maple personally.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
10/XII/20 - 33cl can from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte) @ ElManana’s place, BB: 10/XI/21 (2020-1117) Thanks to ElManana+1 for sharing the can!
Clear dark brown beer, big creamy bit irregular beige head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: lots and lots of banana, yeasty, soft roast, funky touch. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: lots of coconut, dark chocolate, more coconut, caramel, banana peel, pretty bitter. Aftertaste: quite some dark chocolate, more ripe banana and banana peel, bitter touch, nice stuff, sweet finish, hint of vanilla, banana, caramel, some amburana and hazelnut.