Flying Monkey Four Finger Stout

Brewed by Flying Monkey Brewing
Style: Dry Stout
Olathe, Kansas USA

Pours black with a tan head. Aroma is smoked malt with a mild chocolate and coffee bit. Flavor is smokey and full of roast with just a touch of sweetness. Good flavor and pretty darn good.

bottle Pours black with a creamy, dark tan head. The aroma is quite muted, primarily roasted malt and a touch of coffee. The mouthfeel is medium-bodied, lively and quite astringent. This beer literally strips all moisture from my tongue. The flavor is bitter chocolate & coffee with a lightly metallic and dry finish. This one takes the term "dry" stout to the extreme I finished this beer more thirsty than when I began it.

12 oz bottle from Lukas Liquor Superstore. Pours black with a small dark tan head that dissipates quickly and remains slightly lacy. Not quite a four finger width head. Smells of burnt roasted malts, sweet cherry chocolate, some bitter hops, and some mocha. Not a bad smelling smout. Feels and tastes slightly watered down with a thin body. Taste of sweet cherry chocolate again, roasty, kind of acidic but not citrusy, more of an oatmeal stout flavor/feel. Very dry finish with a lingering light bitterness. Overall, a little watery, but not a bad stout. Again, I compared it to an oatmeal stout, but it does have more taste than some of the generic oatmeal stouts I’ve had. Not a bad beer.

Bottle from trade. This one is interesting as it has a bitter almost peppery flavor with a smack of cooking dark chocolate that my wife uses to make cookies. The dryness is here but it has a cigarette ashy quality I find in a porter. The finish seems wetter to me. Thats the part I find disappointing. The initial flavor smacks and hit my tongue but the rest of it flows away quickly. It beats the amber I had from this brewery.

Thanks unclemike. Another state bites the dust. Black pour with minimal head. Coffee and chocolate aroma. Taste is very malted with a little hop finish.

Pours brown with a tan head. Aroma of roast, dark chocolate, milk, and coffee. Coffee flavor with some tartness poking through. Finishes with more coffee and slight hop flavor and bitterness. Yup, it’s a stout, but that about sums it up.

Out of retirement for 2006, bottle, pours nice thicker dark black with a slight tan head that dissipates, some lacing. Nice subtle aroma of freshly roasted/toasted malts, some molasses. A very mild and restrained taste with more roasted malts and coffee; a higher level of carbonation than expected. More like a porter than a stout, but overall a mild and well balanced beer.

12oz bottle thanks to theisti. Pours black with a brown head. Nose is of coffee grounds. Taste is very much burnt coffee. Mouthfeel is thin and watery, yet dry.