 MaxxDaddy (208), Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Mar 26, 2008
Draft at Blind Tiger. Pours black with no head. Roasted malt aroma, with some chocolate and slight oatiness. Taste was bitter roasted coffee and oats. Average mouthfeel with a slightly roasty bitter finish.
kramer17801 (1846), sunbury, Pennsylvania, USA
Apr 13, 2008 22 oz bottle, via BA BeerTruth. Pours a flat black body under a rather large fizzy brown head that settled to a craggy mass of meringue. The nose is roasted malt with an earthy oatmeal undertone. Some light hops and a bitter chocolate scent round it out. The flavor is sweet chocolate and roasty malt with a slight sour mash pervasiveness that makes it a little acrid. Finishes with moderate bitterness and a lactic twang. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with a little too much fizzy foamy carbonation. Fairly disappointing overall, a little too much of that "house" character if that’s what you want to call it that McNeils is infamous for.
goldtwins (3672), Nesconset, New York, USA
Apr 7, 2008 Tap @ Blind Tiger. Poured black with a tan head. Sweet roasted malt aroma with mild-moderate amounts of chocolate. The flavor was semi-sweet and full of roasted malt. Semi-dry finish. Nice smooth mouth feel.
puzzl (1651), New York, New York, USA
Mar 27, 2008 Tap at Blind Tiger. Oaty, stale aroma, a bit sweaty. Stale coffee in the flavor, but nice and clean and drinkable. Lightly sweet. Not distinct but a pretty good stout. I find it funny that this is listed as a Sweet Stout and the Alchemist Coffee Stout is listed as a Dry Stout, consdering how similar these two are.
rudolf (1543), Buffalo, New York, USA
Mar 27, 2008 Draft @ blind tiger. Black but in direct sunlight appears a milky deep brown. Tan head. Nose is lots of cocoa, some burnt malt, slightly lactic. Flavor is bitter cocoa, hoppy with some slight burnt malt & chocolate, light fruit. Finish is almost minty with hops, cocoa & toffee.
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