Young Sarge - Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery

badbeer

Iowa

4.33/5  rDev -2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Black with a dark tan head that recedes to a ring around the glass and has spotty lacing. Aroma of dark cherries, licorice, bourbon, vanilla, and some oak. Taste is creamy milk chocolate, with bourbon, cherries, and vanilla; alcohol is pretty well hidden. Low carbonation and medium to full bodied. I wouldn't hesitate to try this again, in fact, I would have ordered more, but they ran out by that time at Pre-DLD.

Serving type: on-tap

01-03-2009 03:54:35 | More by badbeer

JDV

Texas

4.4/5  rDev -0.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

On tap at Flossmoor before DLD. Pours pitch black with no head in a ridiculously large goblet. Smell is so rich and malty with bourbon and smooth chocolate and caramel. Taste is smooth, creamy dark chocolate and bourbon and caramel. Very creamy yet a bit drying. This stuff was fantastic!

Serving type: on-tap

06-30-2008 19:50:56 | More by JDV

Deuane

Pennsylvania

4.58/5  rDev +3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5

On tap at the pre-Dark Lord party.

A - Thick and black with a medium dark tan head. Head lasts throughout.

S - Holy Bourbon Batman! Oh man is this beer or what? Also big roasted malts and then a hint of toffe.

T - BIG and full...lots of Bourbon, coffee, toffe, and hints of vanilla, dark fruit and chocolate. This beer has A LOT going on. It is a sipper to enjoy over a long period.

M - Very smooth with a HUGE mouthfeel. This is one to savor.

D - A very well done beer. This is absolutely delicious! This is not a session brew but to sit and enjoy a few on a chilly night would be simply blissful.

One of the best beers I have had in 2007!

Serving type: on-tap

11-29-2007 15:37:09 | More by Deuane

FtownThrowDown

Ohio

3.93/5  rDev -11.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Consumed within my weekend of barrel aged debauchery that was DL weekend.
Another solid offering from Flossmoor. Very creamy, velvety mouthfeel. Plenty of roasted coffee flavors backed by a very present bourbon flavor. It may be a tad too much bourbon for some, but for me it works well.

Serving type: on-tap

05-04-2007 22:36:19 | More by FtownThrowDown

akorsak

Pennsylvania

4.33/5  rDev -2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

A snifter glass at the brewery.

A: The stout is black and thick-looking, allowing no light to penetrate it. The head is a coffee-colored tan, billowy but compact.

S: The nose delivers the bourbon punch plain as day. Roasted malts with a touch of coffee emerge and are greeted by thick bourbony sweetness.

T: The taste provides an all-around big flavor. Coffee stout notes emerge, providing a certain bitterness that is both coffee grounds and roasted malts. That sharp flavor is well balanced, even topped, by the rounded bourbon flavor. Oak and buttery notes provide a softness that dulls the bitter character of the stout.

M: The mouthfeel is velvety smooth, but a dark roasted sweet flavor lasting throughout.

D: This is a scary good bourbon stout, one that has the ability to give better-known stouts a run for their money.

Serving type: on-tap

05-02-2007 16:23:36 | More by akorsak

SPLITGRIN

Kentucky

4.72/5  rDev +6.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

Served at flossmoor stations special barrel aged night before DLD. Came to me in a brandy snifter.
Jet black ink like body only yeilds a dark tan skim of a head. Nose is of up front roasty chocolate and syrupy port. Silky high end chocolate covered cherries also arise on the nose. Glazes the mouth on first sip with deep alchol soaked coco, but this is not harsh at all. Belgium candies and roasty malt dance on the tongue. Like eating a piece of homemade german chocolate cake. As the beer warms it gets even better and smoother. Nicely warming to the belly. Coffe notes are slight and dominated by the chocolate. Silky mouthfeel. I would guess alc. to be somewhere around 10%. Amazingly drinkable. By the time I was ready for another it was gone. I hope to get a chance to have this again as it is easily one of the best stouts I have had the pleasure to enjoy.

Serving type: on-tap

04-30-2007 15:03:32 | More by SPLITGRIN

mcallister

Ohio

4.93/5  rDev +11.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5

Had this the night before Dark Lord day at Flossmoor. Out of all the beers I tasted from Dragonmead, Kuhnhenn, Founder's, Bell's, and even BA Dark Lord this was the best beer I tried.

Black showing no signs of transpareny, delicious mocha head, little lace an apparent dream potion. Great cascading waves break and leave viscous legs behind.

Holy hell what a nose. Dark molten chocolate with layers of coffee turned machiato. Roasted coconut, with toasted vanilla. Dark fruit is everywhere and undending. Black currant, red currant, mollasses, prune, vanilla bean, black raspberry, cabernet sauvingon graped grown in Bordeaux, and a bit of hop juicy-ness.

This beer was teetering between a 4.5 and 5 for taste while sampling it. If 4.75 were possible it initially would have received that score but as this set in my glass and kept oozing magical goodness it eventually was a solid 5 for taste.

So big, full, creamy, tantalizing, brooding, maculine, and massive this bad ass screams respect. Layered dark chocote with cocoa appeal, and hot fudge at the forefront. Thick mollasses, and a double machiato sense. Coffee is clean, tannic, and just brewed. Dark fruits are so massivve, deep, and intertwined it's hard to pick things out. Such a black curran, and black cherry backbone. Toasty oak and coconut are melded perfectly with the bourbon notes. Caramel and toffee hit their stride untill vanilla comes thorugh on the final lap. Prune and mollasses round out the long, long finish.

This beer is drinkable at all times.

Serving type: on-tap

04-29-2007 17:05:56 | More by mcallister

GbVDave

Illinois

4.13/5  rDev -6.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

Served in a tulip glass at Map Room 3/3/07. "Imperial Mocha Stout aged in Heaven Hill Bourbon barrels"

A: Pitch black with an awesome looking mocha colored head.

S: Large aroma of bourbon and dark roast coffee.

T: Flavors of sweet dark fruit, roasted malt, toffee, oak, roasted coffee, bourbon, vanilla, and bitter sweet chocolate.

M: Full, dry, sweet, and bitter. The mouthfeel starts off slick and sweet and finishes off dry and bitter. An excellent voyage!

D: Fantastic! Another great Flossmoor barrel aged beer. Very enjoyable.

Serving type: on-tap

03-03-2007 23:19:51 | More by GbVDave