Hockley Valley Stout

Brewed by Hockley Valley Brewing & Malting Company
Style: Dry Stout
Orangeville, Canada

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Col de mousse brun clair sur liquide noir. Au nez, présence de malt torréfié, de chocolat, de café au lait et de vanille. En bouche, goût léger de malt torréfié avec une accentuation au niveau de la saveur de cacao. Apparition au fil des gorgées de petites pointes d’acidité. Le liquide est de faible corpulence et offre une texture crémeuse. Finale sèche de grains rôtis.

Can. Pours "like liquid midnight" so the can says, pretty slick and near black, but actually a very dark clear glowing red, with a medium fizzy but creamy cream colored head. Aroma is nicely roasty, seemingly some roast acidity, touch of creamy chocolate, coffee, hint nutty. Flavor is a touch sour roasty, bright acidic roast flavor, dry and tangy, grassy chocolate, quick finish with some lasting sour cream like flavor aftertaste. Medium bodied, thinner with corse fizzy carbonation.

Can. Pours a black body with a short lived tan head. Sweet nitro like cream notes, sweet irish cream, light bitter chocolate tones. Dry bitter chocoalte tones with a mild caramel malt presence. Soft light with a a lightly roasted dry finish. Decent session ale.

Coffee and raspberries on the nose. Gives the mouth more coffee as well as must and smoke. Tasty, but could be stronger. A little short in the body. Solid, if overpriced.

can. Poured almost black with a red hue, the beige head recedes to nil. Moderate roasted malt aroma. Smooth rich mouthfeel. Flavour is roasted almost smoked malts, some coffee and cocoa notes and finishes dry.

473 ml can from LCBO. Pours a dark brown/black with a very small light brown head. Aroma has coffee, nuttiness and a light caramel sweetness. Flavour is very dry, roast/coffee but with a light moderating sweetness. Dry bitter finish. Pretty good.

Can. Pours a clear cola brown with a medium sized dark beige head. Light roast, hints of coffee. Little bit thin, light roast and malt. Finishes up with some dry roast and coffee notes.

UPDATED: SEP 26, 2010 A -Full roasted chocolate, molases and caramel aroma A - Lives up to it’s own press...liquid midnight F - Flavor is a bit thin to start, but finishes with a light smokey, bitter finish P - Nice soft carbonation, but a bit thin in the texture department O - Much better on the second try

it pours dark dark reddish brown with a small head that fades away, it smells like espresso beans, tastes like sweet espresso, a little coconut, some bar milk chocolate, its a tiny bit poppy, feels a bit weak in the mouth, better than i thought it would be and worth trying once out of ontario beer and liquor stores ridiculously small stout selection.

Poured from can. Poured a very dark brown/black with a decent head which disappeared quickly. A full coffee smell and flavor with a definite dark chocolate flavor as well. Good mouthfeel. Very good overall.