Ballast Point – Sextant
6.4% ABV
Purchased at California State Fair ($9/16 oz. bottle) and poured into plastic cups.
His Notes:
This oatmeal stout brewed with copious amounts of Café Calabria coffee pours an impenetrable onyx with an almost nonexistent sand-colored head. Silky coffee dominates the nose, but it also possesses notes of licorice, plum, and rich loam. Sextant’s strong taste follows suit – nuanced coffee flavors mingle with vanilla bean deserts, and those tastes are offset with earthiness and given depth and creaminess by the addition of oats. The finish is long-lasting and fairly powerful, but also tasty and well-balanced – coffee is the predominant flavor, along with more vanilla and black licorice. I imagine this brew would stand up very well to barrel-aging.
4.5 Toasts
Her Notes:
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