3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask - Newark. Pours clear black with ruby highlights and a small, fizzy off-white head, short retention with spare lacing. Aroma is chocolate, coffee, and roast malt with leather yeast, light fruity esters and woody hops. Flavor is chocolate and roast malt with fruity esters, light hops and bitterness, and a sweet finish. Medium body, warmth, and carbonation.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask pour @ brewpub. Color is dark brown with thin tan head; minimal lacing. Sweet aroma with coffee and chocolate notes. Initial flavor is semi-sweet, but levels out with dry coffee and chocolate notes. Very nice beer and easy to drink.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Nitro Tap at Iron Hill Maple Shade. Pours a dark brown with a thick foam head. Some light comes through. Flavors are dark roasts, mostly, with a slight sweetness on the finish.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
20100104 Nitro tap at Newark. Aroma is pleasant but so mild. Flavor is woodsy, dirty. Simple dark roastiness. As it warms becomes a bit boozy, rummy even. Solid stout.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Nitro at Phoenixville BrewPub (at 6.2%ABV): Aroma of roasted malt, light lactose, and a hint of chocolate. Poured dark brown/very dark amber in color with a large, creamy, dense, tan, nitro head. Clear. Not sparkling. Flavor is lightly sweet. Tastes of light chocolate, lactose, oats, and slight roasted malt. Medium body. Creamy, slightly dry texture. Nitro carbonation. Slight chocolate finish is a tad dry.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 10/20
Creamy, very smooth, thick. Nice aroma, but way too sweet, almost syrupy. With less sugar this would be a truly awesome beer, but it doesn’t do much for me as-is.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Nitro at IH Lancaster. Dark Brown body with thin head... slight coffee aroma, with a roasted coffee taste, very subtle oat hints... smooth body
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 14/20
Nitro at Iron Hill Newark. Pours out black with a moderate creamy off white head. Aromas of light chocolate, slight roast and a little sweetness. Velvet-like smooth mouthfeel. Taste is roasted malts, light chocolate and some hints of oat sweetness. Rather well balanced and pretty solid.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Nitro at Newark location. Poured into a pint glass, black in color, mocha colored cascading head. Sweet aroma, with some roasted malts. Taste is light roasted malts, oat, light chocolate with a overall sweetness. Not bad....got better as it warmed up. Texture was nice... small nitro bubbles bounce off your tounge and sit there. Overall no southern tier oat but still a decent brew.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
On draft at the Newark location. The pour was one of those wonderful stout experiences, bubbles separating out as a separate phase, slowly, delayed, very nice. Very generous tan to chocolate colored initial head that was very persistent, sat there looking pretty. The aroma was dark fruits, chocolate, some light roast. The flavor was chocolate, dark vinous fruits, some roast, and oatmeal aspects, although this was more overdone on the dark fruit/vinous side of things than I like my oatmeal stouts to be. Thick, a little syrupy, but kept honest by the oatmeal presence, I presume.
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