Azalea Coast Teachs Chocolate Stout

Bottle - This was a terrible beer. It tasted sour! Nothing like a stout at all. It is dark in color like a stout but the taste was horrific. I took a swig, and then tried to down a bit more and couldn’t do it. I ended up dumping out the rest.

Bottle; poured a dark brown with auburn hints; basically no head. KieferUGA and I thought it might be a bad bottle after initially trying it; it was that off. Aroma was astringent with some oats and chocolate. Flavor tasted infected; sourt and tart with only minimal amounts of chocolate and/or stout elements. Palate was watery and thin. I hope that they have bottling issues; and that this wasn’t their intention.

Bomber. Thanks to TURDFERGUSON for answering my call for local stouts! Pours clear dark brown with a lacy off-white head. Chocolate nose with the slightest hint of pine. Light watery body and medium-light carbonation. The taste is mostly fruit with a hint of coffee. Nondescript sour finish.

Gotta tell you Azalea, this is the most craptastic stout I’ve ever had - a completely disappointing mess. I can get a hell of a lot more chocolate out of my homebrewed porter, and I don’t need to add Hershy’s Cocoa Powder. In a blind tasting, I would have said this is an infected brown ale that could use more hops, body and carbonation.

Starts out fine enough, pours a black brown, light head in color and thickness. If you could just look at it, this would be a fine stout. Don’t drink it! Imagine leaving about a quarter cup of cheap merlot sitting out for about 3 days and mixing it with a can of Guiness. Agree with the hint of cranberry in some of the other reviews, bitter/sour throughout and through the finish. I thought it was horrible, would have been better off spending the 6 bucks on a sixer of miller light. The bottle does look cool in the collection though.

Looks like coke in the glass with a decent head. Thin, watery body with a sweet chocolate and coffee aroma and flavor. Bitter bite on finish.