Catawba Valley Honest Injun Stout

Draft at Mellow Mushroom, Asheville, NC.Big coffee and roast malt aroma. Dark brown to full black with a rapidly diminishing head. Bitter roast coffee and dark chocolate flavor. A little thin and without any real flavor range, but mostly pretty nice.

Draught at Barley’s in Asheville. Pours a nice black with amber edges and rocky, lacy tan head. The aroma is chocolatey with some roasty notes and some vanilla. The flavor is somewhat oat-like at first, then some sweet chocolate notes. The finish dries a little into some ashiness. Mild leafy hops bounce around throughout. Not great, a very typical dry stout.

On tap at Mellow Mushroom in Asheville, NC on 9/21/07. Pours black with a small tan head and good lacing retained. Nose is sweet and lactic and slightly nutty and chocolately. Flavor is dry and roasty with a little weird funkiness thrown in.

Draft sample at Knoxville Brew Jam. Poured a dark brown color with an average frothy brown head that mostly diminished with fair lacing. Moderate roasted coffee and chocolate malt aroma. Medium body with a sticky texture. Medium roasted bittersweet flavor with a medium bittersweet finish of moderate duration. Flavorful soft brew.

Date: 01/26/2002
Mode: Draft
Source: Barley’s, Ashville

Black, lasting tan head, light roasted aroma, rich malt flavor, strange twang, infected?, i don’t think so, just not that great, only gets i
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Date: 04/12/2003
Source: fest

roasted chocolate aroma, lots of chocolate flavor, touch of roasted, no twang, slight bitter finish, upgraded to ii

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.6/5.0
Score: **/4
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The score was calculated based upon the notes and an old scoring system.