MuttyD (38), Cambridge, USA Jul 15, 2008 Black pour with dark tan head. Roasted malt & chocolately aroma. Coffee, chicory, anise, and dark chocolate flavor. Very complex stout. doogie (24), Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA Jul 2, 2008 Rating bottle - pours black with a tan head. The aroma is malty and sweet spice. Taste is roasted malt with coffee/chicory flavors added in with a slightly bitter finish that is very nice. It’s smooth, but not real creamy and has a nice light fizz. One of my favorite beers! dpjuart (501), Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA Jun 29, 2008 12 oz. bottle courtesy santoslhalper. Pours black with chocolate head, one finger, dissipating to an 1/8 inch foam that lasts. Aroma of roasted malts and chocolate and a whole lot of coffee and some anise. Very smooth and rich mouth feel with pleasant and mild chocolate and caramel malt taste at the beginning, followed by a roasted coffee bean/espresso flavor, a bit woody, with a good bitter from the hops. No astringency from the roast in the bitterness. The bitterness lingers for a while and plays with a mild sweetness in the after. Solid offering. It’s got the balls of an IRS, but not the alcohol. It’s quaffable and moderately sessionable, and isn’t very heavy. It’s a good beer. Cruzan59 (122), Lititz, Pennsylvania, USA Jun 26, 2008 Draft at Dogfish Head Brewing & Eats, Rehoboth Beach, DE...pours black, no head when I got it...aroma of toasted malts, chocolate, licorice...bit of an earthy-woody taste (not dry though), coffee bean, some chocolate...the chicory gives this stout an interesting twist...went down rather quick. epf33 (144), Fairfax, Virginia, USA Jun 21, 2008 found this new place in Falls Church, VA that holds a lot of DH beers on tap, had the chicory in their version of the black and tan, out of this world!
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