Great Lakes Blackout Stout

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

Bottle. Pours oily black with almost no head. Smells of chocolate and dark roasted malts. Tastes of roasted coffee, chocolate malts, toffee and some hop notes. Slick mouth feel with moderate carbonation and a slight presence of alcohol.

thanks to cmillward for this one! Chocolate roasted malts with hints of coffee on the nose. Pours dark brown almost black with no head. Rich chocolate malts with hints of coffee very smooth.

[2295-20090626] Bottle. Potato roast malt aroma. Black body with a medium-lasting creamy tan head. Roasted malt flavour has lots of grainy bread. Full body. In great shape, considering the date.
(BBD 07/15/07; w/ garthicus, jerc)

Bottle, thanks C. Deep dark black in color with a nice fluffy off white head. Malty and roasty aroma. Coffee, and chocolatety notes. Malty, toffee and caramel flavor. Hoppy notes. Nice malty and hoppy finish. Medium bodied. Sweet tasting. Nice. Very drinkable.

bottle, dark brown black color with slight wispy tan foam, aroma has a lot of coffee and malty fruit, flavor has a pronounced fruit and coffee balance with a hoppy malt finish

Bottle. Pours a beautiful dark, dark, dark brown (well... basically, black) with a nice 1/2 inch of beautiful foamy head that settles to a thin film after about a minute. Smells of roasted malts chocolate, with a little bit of coffee and perhaps vanilla. A beautiful looking and smelling beer! Taste is similar to aroma, with a definite taste of alcohol that you can feel warm your throat on the way down. This beer is great!

2008 bottle from mtoast (Thanks!) Dark brown(almost black) pour with a nice 1/4 inch cookie colored head and a heavenly roasted espresso/vanilla aroma. Flavor was creamy bitter chocolate, vanilla and fresh coffee. Soild Russian imperial stout, make sure you go out of your way to get some of this.

Presentation: It was poured from a brown 12oz bottle into a pint glass. Appearance: The body has a dark brown/black color that is nearly opaque. On top there is a Light tan head of modest size (about one finger) that fades down to just a small ring of bubbles that makes some slick lacing. Smell: The aroma has lots of roasted malty grain and a heavy vodka like alcohol presence. Taste/Mouth: It has a big sweet malt flavor up front with lots of roasted grain, roasted malt and roasted coffee notes. This is surrounded by a heavy boozy alcohol presence and tempered by solid hop bitterness. Also there is some mild odd fruitiness in there as well. The finish really hits you with sweet boozy alcohol that hangs on the tongue and warms the palate. The texture is full, smooth and slick with mild carbonation. Notes: This is a big full bodied slow sipper.