Hockley Stout

473 mL can from matt7215. Thanks! Nearly black pour with a medium fizzy head. Roasted malt aroma with coffee and chocolate notes. Taste is nearly identical. Thin body.

500ml can from LCBO. I was impressed from the beginning. While the Valley Dark was a well-made brew, it never quite tickled my fancy. This one had a more full-rounded body to it. Roasted malt on the nose with hints of coffee. Taste presented hits of coffee, chocolate and roast. This was a fairly enjoyable beer out on the patio.

473ml can
4.2% ABV
I tried this beer on May 28, 2008 after purchasing from one of my local LCBO outlets. The beer poured a molasses black colour with a light brown head that quickly disappeared. The aroma was rather weak with some roasted malt hints, and some sour smells. The mouthfeel was thin to medium bodied, with medium carbonation. The flavour was roasted malt with coffee and chocolate tones.

Thanks to MrManning for the 16oz can! Pours out black (like the can says) with a thick tan fluffy head. Light roasted grains and a hint of metal shavings. Taste is nice, chocolate malt, coffee, roasted grains, very drinkable. A little roastiness on the palate after. A solid Irish stout that I could see being a great session beer.

Can, thanks to robinvboyer! Well this one pours totally blackw tih a large bubbled cream colored head. Aroma is interesting...toast, coffee beans, dried herbs, and a bit of smoke too. The flavor is roasty, sweet, bitter, vanilla, molasses. This is a very unique brew.

Can (473ml). Damned if I can see through it - opaque black, reasonably thick-looking, slightly small fizzy diminishing tan head (almost a 4). Dry aroma, solidly roasty but mild, nutshell and roast coffee bean, a little herbal. The taste is VERY dry and bitter - reminds me a bit of the 7-year-old can of Guinness tupalev shared with us a couple of years back - herbal, dry, coffee-roasty with a long herbal finish. Slick, porter-ish body and mouthfeel, sneaky-astringent, not much aftertaste - just a solid simple dry stout - I’ll buy more.

Can, 473 ml, purchased at the LCBO on March 2 2008, savoured on April 22 2008; eye: deep ruby, clear, no effervescence, voluminous beige head that turns into a tiny ring, no lacing; nose: light roasted malt, coffee, light vanilla, chocolate milk; mouth: vanilla, roasted malt, vanilla again, light chocolate milk, short finale in light roasted malt, slightly creamy texture, lightly lactic, light astringency, lightly bitter, medium body, not much carbonation; overall: ordinary FRANÇAIS Canette, 473 ml, achetée à la LCBO le 2 mars 2008, savourée le 22 avril 2008; œil : rubis foncée, claire, pas d’effervescence, mousse beige abondante qui se transforme en un petit anneau, pas de dentelle; nez : léger malt rôti, café, léger vanille, lait au chocolat; bouche : vanille, malt rôti, retour de la vanille, léger lait au chocolat, finale courte en léger malt rôti, texture légèrement crémeuse, légèrement lactique, légère astringence, légèrement amère, corps moyen, peu carbonatée; en résumé : ordinaire

Canned. Smooth, kinda watery pour of very dark, grizzly-bear brown with a tiny toffee head. Clean, understated roasty and chocolate aroma. Flavour-wise, lots of burnt sugar. A bit of smoke and a hint of sourness, like in an unsweetened cafe latte. Sweet, very clean and very quaffable. Nothing stands out, but it also lacks any notable flaws. I would gladly drink this again.