Lost Coast 8 Ball Stout

Good aroma of dark fruit and coffee. Flavor adds sweet orange chocolate malt to the mix, with a surprising citrus brightness, finishing with a healthy bitterness with lingering coffee. I never heard of this beer before today, but will look for it in the future.

Tasted @ the Loast Coast Brewery in Eureka.
Black colored brew. Nice roasted malty aroma. Fine roasted malty flavor, some coffee and chocolate. Nice sweet stout.

Bottle. Creamy roasted aroma. Almost black colour. Very small brown head. The flavour is roasted with some barley bitterness, some cream, a little dust. Enough sweetness to prevent it from being too dry. Good coffee aftertaste.

12oz bottle. Sweet roasted malt aroma. Black body with head that settled on top of beer like a bacteria experiment. Good roasted stout flavor but the sweetness present overshadows the roasty flavor. Alright but little too sweet for me.

8 Ball Stout is black with an orange hue. It has a fleeting light orange head that quickly fades to a small, bubbly ring. Dark, roasty malt dominates the aroma: coffee and chocolate and smoke. It has a smooth, medium-full body with a dry finish. It has a very well balanced flavor. The bitterness seems to come as much from the malt as it does the hops. There are notes of dark roast coffee, baking chocolate and maybe a hint of rye bread. It is resiny and oaken, with a touch of sweetness and medicine. A damn fine stout!