3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Aroma of slight roast. Mouth is pretty light. Roasty finish. Flavors are slightly muted. Slight iron taste. Good sugar notes. The sweet is balanced out by that bitter roast finish. Good, but not great.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
On tap at the Goose Island Clybourn location. Has some coffee scents with a bit of cream, taste is similar with a big bold coffee roast, nice creamy finish.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
November 23, 2012 on tap at clybourn. Dark brown with limited head. Lactose, roasted malt and chocolate in aroma and taste. Medium body and relatively smooth. Nice warm up stout for the big event tonight.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Tap at Goose Island Clybourn. Dark brown pour, clingy head. Chocolatey, mild roast, excellent.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Sampled from the tap at the Clyborn location. Pours black with a light brown head that dissipates completely. Aroma has a very creamy sweet chocolate with a dark grain backing. Flavor has sweet chocolate with a bit of of backing roasted malt.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
On tap at Clybourn brewpub. Pours really dark brown with tan head. Aromas of roasted malt and chocolate. Flavors are all roasted malt and chocolate. Body is a little thin. Based on prior ratings this may of fell short of previous batches.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Flight at GI Light phenol nose. Brown black with a beige head. Sweet stout flavors. Clean a little too sweet 6/3/6/3/13
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Draft at Clybourn. Dark sepia with a puffy white head, eventually evaporates. Nose is muted, pepper and bubblegum with licorice and faint chocolate. Flavor improves, very dry chocolate with a bit of of licorice and moderately spicy roast dryness through the finish. Quite sticky but nicely dry, if too estery.
3.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
It was a chocolate milk of a beer. Extraordinarily filling and delicious, desert-like, as if chocolate ice cream had melted and fermented into a beer reincarnation. A small glass was tasty, but anything more may have been a bit much, given how filling it was.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
This poured a dark brown color with a tan head. Aroma was chocolate, light roast, some lactose, and brownies. Flavor was sweet chocolate, brownies again, sugary, and some light bittering hops.
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