Hockley Stout

500ml can. Cola brown body, tan head, small ring of carbonation on top. Striking nose full of roast, dry leather, malted milk balls, flaked barley and flaked oatmeal and a touch of semi-sweet amaretto/coffee. Flavor is disappointingly pale, empty, transparent and peaked. Sharp acidity (but not sourness) and bitterness up front, poorly mashed, completely flabby and weak throughout the drink. Stewed sour veggies and butter just ruins this one. Smells fantastic, tastes terrible, what gives?

Canned sample. Near black in colour with medium carbonation. Aromas are of milk chocolate and mild red apple fruit. More cheap milk chocolate and apple in the mouth, along with red grapes, chalk, and a faint suggestion of mild roast coffee. Thin bodied. Average at best.

473 ml can from brewery. Pours black, nice light cappuccino coloured head. Faint chocolate aroma, fine carbonation, almost flat. Faint malty flavour, smoky aftertaste. Very light body, very drinkable.

473ml can from the LCBO Pours a pitch black with a small creamy looking tan head The aroma is roasted malts chocolate and coffe The taste is pretty much the same as the aroma and ids a thouch on the thin side

473ml can. This beer is deep brown, near to black with a half inch, disappearing head. The aroma is very smokey with some molasses. I taste more smoke, light coffee, water. The mouthfeel is watery.

Tasted 1/10/09. 473ml Can. Pitch and brown hued. Moderate ring of beige head. Aromas of dark chocolate and cola. Touch coffee. Medium bodied with a nice effervescence. Smokey malts. Sticky with a cocoa and buttery note. Meh...

canette, version à 4,2% bière noire, mousse brune, sucrée, finale de pomme verte, manque de torréfaction, manque de caractère.

(can) deep black with dark tan head. Aroma of coffee. Flavor is coffee, roast malt. Body is a tad thin. Dry finish.