Lakefront Fuel Cafe

12oz. brown bottle served in a shaker pint. Appeared to be bottle conditioned. Poured a deep brown/black with a quickly dissipating tan head. Roasted barley and coffee in the aroma. Some sweetness lots of coffee and chocolate in the flavor. A little thin on the body. Some hop bitterness in the middle. Long dry finish with more coffee and chocolate. Fairly easy drinking.

Bottle into English pint glass. Pours an opaque deep, deep brown-black with the slightest hints of a dark cherry red. The head is a milk chocolate color and dissipates quickly. Aroma is roasty, malty chocolate; no coffee to be found. Odd. Flavor continues to be coffee-free, or else it’s a coffee that is so remarkably uncoffee-like that I actually didn’t recognize it. This is very sweet, offers some useful roastiness and choco undertones, but is overall somewhat watery and bland. Bland for the style, I should say, but still fairly drinkable. Not what the description suggested, but I probably preferred this beer to that described one, anyway.

Pours black with a fine, tan head. Aroma is of stale coffee and chocolate. Flavor is stale coffee and a light-for-style mouthfeel. eh.

From a 12 oz bottle from a 7.99 six pack, this poured a deep brown that was nearly black, foamy tan head, and light lacing. Coffee nose with some chocolate. Lively mouthfeel. Flavor of dark roasted maltss and coffee. Not much of a finish;

Bottle. Pours dark brown/black with a substantial and frothy light brown head. Chocolate aroma. Flavor the familiar stout chocolate/ coffee tandem with some minerals, but with some bitter acidity like you’d get from overheated coffee. Seems to water out on the finish. Wanting more fullness here, as well as cleaner flavors.

Bottle - well, half of what I was expecting. The coffee flavor was all there but not much of the richness I expected from a stout. A tad watery. Not much head. Its drinkable, the flavor saves this otherwise mediocre beer.

Dark almost black pour, almost no head. Other than the color, not really a stout, more like a simple dark beer. Nose lacks intensity, maybe notes of coffee. Flavor lacks intensity ... maybe notes of dark roast, coffee, vanilla, and a strange sourness. No integration. Thin. Pretty feeble stuff. Maybe a bonus point for how low the alcohol is, but maybe not; it’s not like they accomplished anything.

Bottle from a sampler from WFM Charlottesville. Pours deep black with a small head. Aroma is pure coffee, not much else. Taste is exactly the same as the aroma. Thin body and a little watery.