Great Lakes Blackout Stout

On tap @ Pizza Plant Walker Center. Pours a deep concentrated blaqck with tan head. Huge roasty & choclolaty aroma. Big roasty flavor with nice hop bitterness that melds well with the heavy malt presence. Big bold mouthfeel. Very nice beer

Pours black with thin tan head. Honestly, it does look a bit thin. However, aroma has everything: dark fruit, chocolate, coffee. Taste is chocolate and sweet roasted malt. The roasted malt overpowers a tad in my opinion. Then the hops and alcohol hit you. The mouthfeel is fulfilling, and the beer is thankfully well-bodied. After suddenly realizing I drank 3/4ths of the glass, I realize why they call this blackout stout.

mmmmm... aroma sets off all those little butterflies in my beer belly... recollects some dark fruits, raisins, chocolate and hints of coffee. Pours a completely opaque obsidian with a nice head. Taste is chocolaty and sweet. Very palatable, finish leaves a clean and satisfying taste in your mouth. One of the better imperial stouts for the money in my opinion.

Pours black, go figure. A small surprisingly light head that reduces to a film around the edge and a very small smidgen of bubbles in the center. Smell is slightly raisiny, dark chocolate, and maybe roasted malts but it is very faint due to the overpowering dark fruit and chocolate. The taste is more malt than I expected from the smell, a good tartness that really hits the back of your tongue nicely. An almost vinous alcohol quality that is fairly noticeable initially but then you get the roasted malts and a little chocolate. Good alcohol warmth going down that is very pleasant sitting in your belly. Leaves a nice warmth and a roasted taste in your mouth to remember it by.

bottle best by 07/07: pours black with a thin head that fades into nothing more than a line around the edge. aroma is a very good roasty malt, dark deep chocolatesome good dark fruits (figs). flavour is extreme dark roasted malt adn chocolate. the palate is very creamy and the finish is outstanding with some bitterness (chocolate) adn small alcohol warmth. very good flavour.

Bottle. pours thin and black. the see through kind of black. This is a good beer, but It does not blow me away. Nice beer to drink all night, if you can afford to.

From nolankowal on 3/7/08. Thanks John! Pours thick and black with a small tan bubble head. Fresh, hoppy malty goodness. Lots of flavor. Kind of like Old Vis, but hoppier. A little bit of coffee and chocolate in the aroma. Very nice.

Dark, dark pour. Big brown head. Malty chocolate aroma. Sweet smooth taste with chocolate and malt noticeable yet very smooth. A fine fine beer