Black Bear Black Demon Stout

Brewed by Bear Brew Pub (Black Bear Brewery)
Style: Stout
Orono, Maine USA

Serve in English pint

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22 oz bottle. Pours a clear dark brown under a fluffy billowy brown head that left lots of lacing as it receded. The nose is more Porter like than Stout with lots of chocolate and some nutty grains. Light roast and burnt notes with some boiled peanuts and licorice. The flavor is way too acrid and burnt with zero malt complexity. Finishes with some chalk and sweet cola notes and minimal hops. Mouthfeel is thinnish and watery in texture with moderate fizzy carbonation. Overall, this was not good. This really needs alot more depth and complexity.

I could only tell this was a stout because it was darker in color than the porter. It had almost no flavor I could distinguish; this isn’t to say it was a mess, or tasted watery, but simply that it tasted like nothing. It mysteriously crept across my palate without me noticing a thing. There’s a tendency to give anything that is darker than a brown a score better than it deserves simply because the flavors are almost naturally appealing; this beer lacks that characteristic and is decidedly worthy of a low score.

Bottle shared by wickedpete 6/28/08: Pours a barely transparent dark mahogany with a wispy-lacing light tan head. Aroma of sweet toasty dark caramel and roasted malts with a hint of light fruits. Body starts effervescent and lightly sweet with some milk chocolatey notes before a drier toasty finish. A good stout.

(22oz bottle, thanks wickedpete) Large tan head atop cola black body. Aroma is medium sweet, roast, chocolate, some smoke, light caramel. Smooth light-medium body.

Black body, a tall fluffy tan head. Aroma is apples, and a light touch of chocolate. Flavor is some chocolate, and cola. The chocolate layer is quite nice.

22oz bottle, courtesy of wickedpete. Thanks, Pete! Pours a dark cola color; huge, textured light tan head with good retention and foamy lacing. Lots of chocolate (milk, mostly), soft vanilla and cocoa in the aroma. Medium mouthfeel: lively carbonation, almost fizzy; lots of cocoa and nougat; chewy dark chocolate notes; reasonably toasty, chocolate-forward stuff, if a bit fizzy. Medium finish: cocoa, dark chocolate, and toasty malts; ends slightly dry, chalky.

Draft. Nice black body with thin head. Aroma is light chocolate, malty. Flavor is sweet chocolate and coffee with some malty tones. A little ahy.

Poured a shiny black-brown body symbolic of this beer’s namesake. Mild off-white-tan head. Dry-hopped and bitter. Slightly coffee and finished with astringencies. Decent beer English in nature from the land of New England.

Poured a dark brown with good head and okay lacing. Aroma was much like a port lots of nuttyness and chocolate. Flavor was mostly burnt malts not much there. Mouthfeel was very wattery. Not a good one.

Nearly opaque pour, with a small ring of off-white fizz - fairly dry, cocoa-like aroma, with notes of espresso and tobacco - fairly creamy mouthfeel - all components of the aroma are present in the flavor, in a pretty good balance, along with some light cream sweetness and faint hop bitterness - finishes with chocolate and coffee bean - pretty good, but lacking a character that distinguishes it from other middle-of-the-road stouts.