3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Thanks to my friend Ray for bringing this and some NG from the Midwest. Back Road Stout 12 oz poured into a pint glass. Dark brown to black color with a tan, lingering head. Carbonation reminds me of a nitro pour; tiny, countless bubbles. Smells of bitter chocolate, roast malt, thick caramel. Tastes a bit unrefined, with caramel and roast malt dominance. Would prefer a drier finish, but am overall pleased with this session stout.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Originally reviewed: 6/1/09. Pours s deep dark cola color with a popping fizzy tan head on top. This "pops" away to nothing very quickly. No lacing. Smells of cocoa, roasted coffee, and warm breads. Decent.
Mouthfeel is a little too carbonated for an oatmeal stout. Not as creamy as I would have liked, but not harsh either. Flavor is of mild roasted cocoa, some bready malts, and some faint bitterness. All in all this is a pretty average beer. Not bad, but not that great.
3.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: MAY 2, 2012 Aroma is chocolate and coffee. Pours a dark brown with a nice head. Tastes like a malty chocolate coffee. Pretty good.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Black with decent, fizzy, tan head / Mild toasty nose of roast coffee & barley / Medium body, fizzy, aggressive, carbonation, with thin body and finish / Weak flavors of dark roast coffee, bittersweet chocolate, oatmeal, and grass / Mediocre.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
12 oz bottle from pepsican labeled Millstream Back Road Stout. Nose is bitter chocolate, oats, roasty notes, with hints of coffee. Black with a medium cinnamon tan head. Flavor is chcolate, oatmeal mush, and caramel.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle to snifter. Pours black brown with a redish tan soapy head that fades to a collar. Aroma is sweet roasted malt some soy and milky scents with a little bakers chocolate. Taste is nice and rich bakers chocolate and soy with a mix of dark fruit and roasted malt. Palate is medium to full with a fizzy rich dry finish. Very nice!!
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Sampled at the DC Ratebeer Gathering. Pours a watery, translucent dark brown with zero head. Nose of coffee, processed chocolate, toasted bread, brown sugar. Flavor is sweet, brown sugar, light cola, dark bread. Medium bodied, dry finish.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
12oz bottle pours dark brown/black with a small tan head. Aroma of chocolate, oats, coffee, and vanilla. Taste is up front very sweet, with raisin, bittersweet chocolate, coffee, and finishing earthy and bitter. Not bad.
2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
dark brown, small bubbled thin with a cream ring. Milky and grain nose, chocolate and light amount of roasted malt. Very sweet, estery bubblegum, light sugar and roasted malt clash. Finish is overly sweet, fizzy, and thin.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Black pour with no head. Lots of earthen coffee grinds, caramel, chocolate, espresso, and bitter cocoa malts, with a medium to full body with fine bubbled effervescence and a finish of backstrap molasses.
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