Lakefront Fuel Cafe

Pours dark brown/black, with a small tan head. Aromas of coffee, chocolate, roasted malt, and hops. Flavor is sour malt, coffee, and chocolate. Body is a little too thin. Thanks to Dough77 for this one.

(Bottle) Pours a black body with a large creamy light brown head. Aroma of roasted coffee and rich chocolate. Nice balance of coffee and chocolate in the flavor. Thanks for the beer Dave!

a lot of coffee here, but today’s big stouts can throw this for the sink. not bad, though. a bit tart/acidic, and slightly watery--suprisingly. not that sweet, but good, anyway.

Couleur noire foncée, abrité d’une mousse brune aux grosses bulles savonneuses. Arômes de vieux café, de crème glacé à l’expresso et bien malheureusement de légumes bouillis. Flaveurs de malt beaucoup plus brûlé que torréfiées rappelant les pneus échaufés. Encore une fois, beaucoup de flaveurs de DMS, choux et mais bouilli, semblant complètement inapproprié, surtout pour le style. Mince, presque dépourvue de toute forme d’effervescence et surtout acidité en bouche. La texture mince en bouche rappelle davantage un style porter qu’un stout. Dommage!

Sweet chocolate ice cream and boiled cabbage with some notes of strong, bitter and burnt coffee. Opaque brown body with dense, fine-bubbled though thin, tan-brown head that leaves some sudsy lacing as it recedes to ring. Bitter-sweet chocolate, mild vegetables and a fair roasty coffee flavour with dark malt bitterness peering out towards the finish. Medium body with very low carbonation that is quite lifeless. Bottle (trade, Dec. 2004) sampled with MartinT, Olivier MTL and Rastacouere. Thanks, Degarth!

The Lure:
Greens and prevalent roastiness don’t blend well imho. Stale coffee and...can I get my nose away from this?

The Festivities:
Roasted malt bitterness and stale coffee flavors face the aforementioned assorted veggies, coming in slowly from the back. Mouthfeel recalls porters more than stouts. Fizzy carbonation and tartness detract from the coffee stout appellation.br>
Transcendence:
There’s a well-thought out place for every seed in your garden.

Thanks to Kevin for the bottle. Opaque black with a lingering small dark tan head. Oily peanut aroma, muted coffe notes underneath. Nice balance of caramel malt and roasted malt flavors, marred by a sour milk lactose taste which fights with the astringency and deeper roast character of the coffee. Some residual bitterness in the finish, but none of the astringency I would expect from a coffee containing stout. The mouthfeel is fairly light.

Fully diminishing light brown head, very dark brown appearance. It might not surprise you, but it smells like coffee.. dark charred grains, chocolate and a strong vegetal component. Slightly tart which doesn’t work well with the roastiness.. Nutty, oily and balsamic.. Rather dull and unappealing. Thin-medium body, watery, moderately high carbonation. Flavored stouts sure seem hard to master.