Foreign Style Stout - Upslope Brewing Company

beergoot

Colorado

4.2/5  rDev +17.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

This is an opaque, black brew with a thin, light tan head. Lacing and is minimal and no rings down the glass, but the head sticks around.

The smell is a delicious mix of roasted malt, chocolate, cocoa nibs and rich coffee.

The taste is rich and smooth, much like the aroma. Sweet. The bitterness blends nicely with the robust malt character.

An excellent canned stout...

Serving type: can

01-29-2012 21:33:50 | More by beergoot

mastodonj

Colorado

3.93/5  rDev +9.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

From a 12 oz can into a diconic...
I've had an entire 6-pack of this over the last several days and it still stands up as a very solid stout that I will continue to seek out. My next task is to get over to the brewery and try it on tap.

A couple of other reviewers have already nailed the way I feel about this so I'm probably not going to be adding a lot here.

Opaque, nearly black with a dark beige head which is quite small and does not produce much lacing at all.

There is a nice nose of malty, roasted coffee.

Full bodied taste with a little bit of spice (no idea what is producing that). The alcohol content is just perfect for this
hybrid stout.

The feel is good with a nice alcoholic finish.

try it!

Serving type: can

01-29-2012 00:29:41 | More by mastodonj

kkrez

Colorado

4.18/5  rDev +16.8%
look: 3 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 4

The stout pours a dark brown/black with an off white head.

The aroma is of semi-sweet chocolate, light smoke, and coffee roast.

Taste is similar; semi-sweet chocolate coffee roast, with a slight earthy smokiness, all being finished up by a drying yeast and hop finish.

Mouthfeel is medium which makes this 6.9% beer highly drinkable and pretty sessionable.

Serving type: can

01-28-2012 20:00:46 | More by kkrez

hopfacebrew

Colorado

2.23/5  rDev -37.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2

On tap at Vine Street Pub for Stout Month. The beer was served in an 8oz milkshake pilsner glass.

A - The beer is jet black with a solid 1 finger brown head. Decent retention and some lacing.

S - There is an average aroma of roasted chocolate malts, coffee, and a slight alcohol note.

T/M - The roasted grains are prevalent immediately. A mild bitterness follows. The beer thins out very quickly. It has a medium body on the front end but ends thin, watery, and unbalanced. The roasted malt dominates the palette but doesn't seem to mesh well with the mild earthen hop character.

D - Not really.

Overall, this was by far the least pleasing of all the stouts I've had so far during Stout Month at Vine Street. The ability to compare stout to stout to stout really exposes this beer. The flavor is not up to par and is not balanced at all, it's as though it was brewed with a ton of roasted chocolate malt without any other malt. Extremely thin finish - not what I am looking for in a stout!! I will not try this again.

Note: This review was a re-post from my former account, jmkratt, which was hacked and I lost all my reviews...sorry for the redundancy.

Serving type: on-tap

Reviewed on: 02-15-2011 14:51:50

Serving type: on-tap

01-27-2012 14:59:58 | More by hopfacebrew

ucsbmullet

Colorado

3.63/5  rDev +1.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Poured aggressively into pint glass and got a fingers worth of foam at the top which went away quick.

Decent dark malt notes on the nose.

Smooth mouthfeel, reminiscent of Lefthand's Nitro Milk Stout. But is darker, has more bite, is roasty and smokier with a touch of dark chocolate.

Recommend if you like your stouts on the less sweet and more smokier style.

I know this beer is selling like hotcakes in the Denver area. It didn't blow me away, but is a very solid and drinkable beer.

Serving type: can

01-25-2012 02:55:52 | More by ucsbmullet

Domingo

Colorado

3.7/5  rDev +3.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Nice to see this style starting to emerge a little more. I like the fact that it walks the line between big and small while having solid characteristics of both.
Brown, pretty much as close to black as you’re going to get without actually being there. No matter how hard I pour it, there’s almost no head. It’s bordering on flat, but there’s a little bit of carbonation to it.
The flavor profile comes across a bit like a kicked up Irish stout. Roasty with notes of coffee and semisweet chocolate. A little bit of vinous character, too, although it definitely isn’t as dry. Alcohol is barely present, though. Hops are more potent than similar beers like Guinness Export or Lion, but they aren’t quite in the range of an American stout.
Texture is thicker than it looks, but it’s still awfully low on carbonation. It’s almost like a hand pull kind of texture, but more still.
A pretty tasty beer that could probably satisfy Guinness fans and LH Milk Stout fans alike.
The low carbonation is definitely something that could be improved upon, but if they can fix that it’s a pretty admirable take on an export stout.

Serving type: can

01-24-2012 16:12:50 | More by Domingo

DividedAvery

Colorado

3.55/5  rDev -0.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5

Poured from a 12oz can into a Bruery Tulip

A: Pours pitch black with a very small head that dissipates incredibly quick

S: Sweet like a milk stout with some roasted coffee and chocolate notes. Seems like a nice aroma

T: A bit thin for my liking. Some sweetness like a milk stout coms through followed by roasted notes and some coffee and a slight chocolate. Bitterness from the hops also comes through strong. Something about the hops that Upslope uses is very unsettling. Never liked any of hop profiles on their offerings

M: Not nearly enough carbonation. Almost flat, but the beer still has a touch of creaminess which is nice.

O: A decent stout. Not roasty enough and too flat in my opinion.

Serving type: can

01-18-2012 05:44:08 | More by DividedAvery

emmasdad

Colorado

3.45/5  rDev -3.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3

Had this one on tap the other night at the Vine Street Pub in Denver, as part of the stout month celebration. Needed a beer to fill out a taster set and chose this one. Black, with a decent head. Aromas of roasted malt, chocolate and malted milk. Medium bodied, very roasty, with baker's chocolate, malted milk and malt.

Serving type: on-tap

02-14-2011 04:22:52 | More by emmasdad