Illinois Stumblin’ Stout

Brewed by Illinois Brewing
Style: Stout
Bloomington, Illinois USA

On tap at the brewpub. Pours not quite deep black with red on the edges. The aroma is water and weak coffee grinds. The flavor is a hint of sour and watery coffee. This is one of their cleanest beers, but it’s just not flavorful enough.

(Tap) Pours a inky black color with almost no head. Aroma of coffee and burnt toffee. Taste is similar, with a dry and slightly dusty finish. This beer was pretty good, and fantastic compared to the rest of the beers brewed at this place.

A tasty little coffee stout, quite roasty and quaffable. Nice malt balance between the bitter roast and sweeter malts..

I would’ve entered this as a dry stout, coming across much like the well known Irish stout that it seems to be emulating. Deep brown, near black in body with a creamy brown head, it has a mild aroma of roasted malt, coffee grounds, and a dash of cocoa. Same with the flavor of this smooth drink, with the addition of a light smokiness as the previous rater, LilKem, noted. Dry finish. Not bad.

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This was a decent stout. If I based my impression on the Illinois Brewing Co. on this beer I would say people are nuts for thinking they suck. This beer had lots of good coffee, rich chocolate, and some smoke to it. The only put off was in the aroma, and it was the ever slight hint of sweat in the aroma. The thing is, it s ever so slight whereas the Atlanta Brewing Co. always ended up with crazy terrible sweaty sock aroma. I’ll be happy to try other beers by this co. :)