Cisco Captain Swains Extra Stout

Brewed by Cisco Brewers
Style: Stout
Nantucket, Massachusetts USA

Black appearance with a beige head. A smokey coffee and chocolate aroma. Some chocolate and raisins present in the flavor. A bittersweet taste with a sour background. Some nuttiness is present as well. Overall AYE AYE CAP’N!!!!

750 mL bottle. Deep black-brown hue / foamy, tan head. Lightly roasty malt, with floral hop notes...but, the heck?! I’m getting an overload of red grape skins. Molasses as well. Moderately sweet, moderately acidic, lightly bitter flavor becomes a moderately sweet, moderately acidic, moderately bitter finish. Medium body, slick texture, lively carbonation. The bottom line is: really strange grape skin / molasses thing going on. Porter? Foreign Stout? Eh?

Shared the bottle with walleye. Dark brown to almost black body with a tan/brown head that left some fair lacing. Milk chocolate aroma with hints of coffee and molasses. Chocolate flavor with a bit of carmel and some bitter coffee. Not as thick as I would have liked from a stout.

dark black color with a brown head. a nice dry bitter chocolate head. kinda has a nice roasted dry nutty chocolate feel to it. when you realize this is not an imperial, then you can truly dig it. legit brew i say.

This was excellent and very good with the malty hops and malts... awesome chocolate and malt... cool roasted tastes.. thanks to brandon, king of beers :) for bringin this down.

05.22.05 750ml bottle thanks to MBA at Jimmack04 invitational. With much anticipation the bottle was opened and luckily nobody was killed. The beer poured nearly black under 16 inches of sticky tan foam. Eventually it settled down to the point everyone could try it...I had my sample an hour later and it was much more tame. Thin aromas are not so roasty but almost lactic. Lots of citrus, burnt graininess. Fruit salad syrup. Body, even after and hour, is fizzy and thin. Watered down coffee soda. Not the strongest of efforts from this MA brewer, it’s a letdown.

rocky light tan head. black color, mahagoany at edges. aroma is pine and dried lemon rind. flavor is roasted malt, high carbonation. mouthfeel goes foamy very quickly. dry and tart for a stout. yes roasted malt flavor, but kind of bitter and hoppy. thanks maibockaddict!

courtesy of maibockaddict and mkobes at the jimmack invt. Poured dark brown-black with big tan head. I smleed feet first, and as it warmed I got some chocolate and trace hops. tasted had some coffe.