John Harvards Cream Stout

Lake Grove location. Dark brown-black with a light brown nitro head. Roasty chocolatey aroma. Nice creamy body, milk chocolate and a bit of earthy hoppy aroma. Good flavour and aroma despite all of the nitro. Soft roasty bitterness along with sweet chocolate and toast. Medium bodied. Very tasty stout.

85% opaque, red in block; light beige head. Big cream soda aroma, grape, vanilla, almost a barrel aged aroma. Easy drinking flavor with notes of grape, toasted coconut. Smooth, moderately oily. They also had it on tap as a nitrogenated beer, of which I was given a sample; it may improve it a bit like that. Not bad at all. (on tap, Washington D.C. Penn Avenue location)

From a sampler at John Harvard’s in DC on September 5th, 2005. Body is dark brown with splashes of ruby. Aroma is roasty and lightly sweet with whiffs of coffee. Taste is fruity (melon and pear) and roasty with lots of malt sweetness and light coffee. Chocolate comes into play throughout this one. Body is lighter than expected but still smooth. Finishes fruity and malty with light hops and coffee. Not bad!

(DC) Black body with tan head. Aroma is moderately sweet, chocolate, roasty, light coffee. Taste is moderately sweet, chocolate, coffee, roasty, light cherry, pear. Creamy medium body, a bit thin.

nice smooth stout. Some tine touches of vanilla. Didn’t pick up much of a hop or even a malt flavor. Really smooth and drinkable.