Hockley Stout

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

Serve in English pint

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.

Thanks to Jerc for the can. Pours a very dark brown with a nice brown head. Not a lot of aroma. Very solid dry stout with a little bit of coffee in there. Has some very good smoke flavor...I am starting to become a big fan of smoked beer.

Thanks to Jerc for sending this sessionable stout with good all-around flavor. Can pours very, very dark but not quite black, a very thin tan head. Nose is like smelling a freshly opened can of French roast. Flavor is roasty but quaffable, with tinges of smoke and espresso. Moderately bitter. Long, smoky and dry finish. Fairly carbonated. Neither thin nor thick.

Pours a dark brown with a loose-bubbled head that looks just like cola. Aroma is lovely - nice and sweet, hints of dark malt and root-beer. Tastes quite watery, very much like root beer but with a bit of lactic sugar and a light almost imperceptible hop presence. Body is lightly creamy but undercarbonated. Very drinkable, but lacks character and depth. Thanks to Robinvboyer for the trade!