Harar Hakim Stout

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 3

I'm willing to try anything at least once. Picked this up at WOB. A stout? Bit the color of this stout is a deep amber. A big frothy textured tan head rises above. But doesn't stay around long enough. Not much lacing. Candy, dank chocolate in the total profile in a nearly watery body.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Aroma is smoky and malty, typical for a stout and appealing. I didn't get a good look at the color, but it appears to be the typical opaque sable. Flavor is smoky with a hint of coffee, not as complex as most stouts I have tried but still enjoyable. Texture is firm-bodied and fizzy, leaving a smoky tingle. Think no good beer comes out of Africa? Guess again!

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Bottled (from bierzwerg.de). Deep reddish amber colour with a mediumsized slightly off-white foamy head. Aroma is bready, sweet maltyness as well as some mild dark dry fruits, and mild alcoholic stinging notes. Flavour is being rather similar along with toffee and some sweetish grainy notes. Quite much too sweet, which makes it quite out of balance.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Got this at Nile’s Ethiopian restaurant in Orlando. Wanted to try something from Ethiopia since I was there. They had a lighter beer which was 4.5%, and since this was in the 5% range and was a “stout” I went with Hakim. Had a medium brown appearance, far from a dark brown or black which I expected from a stout. Taste didn’t resemble a stout, actually reminded me of drinking Newcastle or honey-brown. Had some caramel and coffee in the flavor, but was probably average at best. Tried something new, but for the price charged felt like I was better off ordering a Beck’s, or just drinking soda and water.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Stubby, 330cc brown bottle, no bottling date, 5.5% alc. Cola colored liquid, dark brown when held to the light (rather than reddish of other dark beers). Thick tan head, not bad retention, good carbonation. The smell had some roasted malt and was a bit yeasty. Also got some caramel and molasses. Taste and mouthfeel were a very thin. Some stout flavors, but were a bit weak overall. Roasted malt, a bit coffee-like, licorice. Not as rich and flavorful as some other stouts, (especially a Foreign Stout), so would be a lot lower marks. However, if it were scorching hot out, this probably be quite refeshing and smooth, lighter and easy to drink, so that bouys it's score.

Aroma: 2 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 5

Had very little hopes for this brew I read all the other reviews of it, a friend mocked and ridiculed me for buying it, it wasn’t looking good from the start for this little stubby bottle from Africa. The first problem I noticed with this stout is the fact I can see light pass through it when its still in the dark brown bottle, and when I poured it in my glass it looked more like Dr. Pepper then a stout dark brown/red, it had a fairly average looking head that lasted for a couple of sips. Smell took me by surprise; it was not bad in my opinion chocolaty, earthy, and of spiced fruit. It felt very thin and watery, but I have had worse feeling stout then this. The taste had a lot of coffee in it, with bitter chocolate and high quality dirt, the after taste was of bakers’ chocolate. The only really bad thing about this beer was the fact it didn’t resemble a stout what’s so ever if I didn’t know that’s what it was I would not have guessed it by looking. I expected this beer to be swill but I think it was a stout that’s just a bit bellow average.

Aroma: 2 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 2 | Flavor: 2 | Overall: 2

simply terrible, give me 10 minutes and i can make a better stout then this!! smelled like fake chocolate, the sorta chocolate you'd find in a 1 cent candy. absolutely no head, no taste, watery?!?! is a stout suppose to be watery? me thinks not! terrible, unlike beerchronic, i shall not even be returning the bottle! avoid at all cost... unless you wanna be the person that says you tried it... but you better have a good reason why!

Aroma: 2 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 2 | Flavor: 2 | Overall: 2

Wrong...all wrong. Tiny ammount of head was gone quicker than i could put this stuff out of its misery. Tried to con druken beer clones into drinking most of it - the remaining bottle will rot until there is nothing left in the fridge i'm sure. Fake sweet chocolate stink and taste with low end malts. Beer smelt exactly as it tasted. Red/brown colour and quite see through - if the bottle didnt say 'Stout' I never wouldve known. Terrible beer but not terrible in a aching stomach way, that is, unless you had more than one. Hardly worth the 5 cents I'll get back from the bottle depot

Aroma: 2 | Appearance: 2 | Mouthfeel: 2 | Flavor: 2 | Overall: 3

Sampled at the Lynnwood International Swill Fest. 330ml bottle. Deep reddish brown color. Small sized white foamy head. Aroma is roasted malt and hairspray. A light bodied foreign stout. Malts are colaish and sweet. Licorice, cardboard, and sweet. It would be cloying if it weren’t so thin. This is really horrid. Its amazing how bad a stout can be when it goes wrong. Mouthfeel is watery and thin. Finish is crisp and dry. Aftertaste is bitter.