Great Lakes Blackout Stout

Brewed by Great Lakes Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Cleveland, Ohio USA

Aromas are malty with a good deal of vinous dark fruit, chocolate, and roast. Pours pretty black with almost no head. The flavor is initially mildly sweet with chocolate, dark fruit, and roast. Some sweet salty soy as well. Earthy and dry finish from the hops. Smooth with a bit of booze. Pretty decent.

Bottle and on draft at the brewpub and capones. This is one awesome stout. Pours a black beer with a thin tan head. Chocolate with a huge malt aroma. Roasty with coffee, caramel malt, with a warm etoh warming. Creamy milk chocolate with notes of bourbon or scotch. Awesome beer devoid of hop presence. Awesome stout.

Bottle, received in a trade. Black pour, almost no head. Aroma is milk, roasted malt, molasses, burnt chocolate. Flavor is the same burnt chocolate, some sweet molasses / licorice, slightly nutty finish. Pretty good beer.

12 ounce bottle courtesy of ucusty. Thanks! Best by 8/17/08. Pours a dark chestnut brown, appearing black in the glass, with medium head. Decent retention and specks of tan lacing. Aroma of dark roasted malts with molasses, tobacco, dark fruits, coffee. Coffee is assertive in the taste with caramel, burnt sugar and coffee notes. Some very light hoppiness as well. Full bodied. A top-notch imperial stout.

bottle thanks to alexsdad06. Very dark pour with a small tan head that doesn’t last. Aroma is full of strong dark chocolate and highly roasted aromas are present. Flavor is chocolatey and some molasses notes. The finish is a tad bitter for my tastes. The hops are very evident on the finish. Very good, but I prefer a thicker, maltier, sweeter imp stout.

Pours dark black (go figure) with a thin tan head. The aroma is sweet, bitter chocolate and roasted malts. The flavor is where it’s at though. It has the standard chocolate notes, but it has this really sweet fruity flavor too that I can’t quite grasp the words for, but it’s quite delicious. Body could be thicker, but it is certainly manageable. Really good beer.

Dark brown pour with a creamy tan head. Roasted malt aroma, with some nice chocolate notes. Mmmmmm. Very tasty beer. Sweet roasted malt - perfectly balanced roast flavor. Pretty sweet. Chocolate, caramel, hazelnut. Not terribly complex, but delicious regardless. Very nice, full, slightly slick mouthfeel. Great beer.

Aroma: currants, caramel. Delicious chocolate. Very roasty. Tons of chocolate with some coffee undertones. Finishes pretty dry with a nice hop profile, although it is overshadowed by the lingering chocolaty goodness in the finish. Body is perfect, perhaps a bit much stinging carbonation.