Snake River Zonker Stout

Brewed by Snake River Brewing Co.
Style: Foreign Stout
Jackson, Wyoming USA

Serve in English pint, Snifter, Tulip

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Opaque black with a bubbly brown head, streaks of lace.Taste begins with a clean toasted malt that swallows as easily as water. Deep in the palate, black coffee and a touch of chocolate assert themselves, lingering bitterly through the finish. Begins like a good British stout, finishes like an American flavored stout. Recommended.

Molasses colored beer with brownish root beer style head. Rich nose with hints of chocolate and black licorice accompanied by roasted accents. Taste is slightly sweet up front and then builds in bitterness with underlying flavors of coffee and brown sugar. There’s a lot going on here. A good stout, definitely one to savor.

Cans can be good for beer, but they don’t look as sexy as bottles. Fortunately for Zonker it looks plenty good when poured. Super dark, big frothy head that slowly fades down to a thin tan cap. Overwhelming chocolate aroma when poured balances as hthe beet its for a bit with more of a ’beer’ scent. Definately easy to drink, but does have a slightly longer after taste than I might like.

Can 12fl.oz. @ home.

[ Courtesy of Secret Winter Santa ]. ABV: 6.0%. Dark black colour with a average to large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, fully lasting, light brown to beige head. Aroma is heavy malty, chocolate, roasted, dark chocolate. Flavour is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, dark roasted, dark chocolate, cacao, hard roasted, sweet malt, malt bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. Nice balanced. [20130114]

12 oz can pours pitch black with a nice tan head. Aromas of roast, some coffee, a hint of licorice. Very balanced flavor with roast and sweetness. Almost kinda milky sweetness. Smooth and pleasant.

can at home ... deep black ... big tan head ... soft sweet coffeeish roast malt nose ... over sweet front ... dry chocolate malts ... big roast ...; soft creamy coffee roast ... nice if a little sweet

In short: A full bodied stout with a bit of everything. Good.
How: Bottle 12oz. Consumed approximately one month after receiving the bottle from Doodler, thanks a lot Scott
The look: Black body topped by a small tan head.
In long: Nose is burnt toasts and coffee with notes of cigarette butt. Body is smooth, semi-thick and a bit viscous with a soft carbonation. Taste brings up a lot of unsuspected black liquorice, vanilla extract, cookies, burnt toasts, coffee, some molasses, oat sensation, solid presence of herbal hops with a minty character. The flavors are a bit aggressive however the beer remains easy to drink. Quite filling for a ‘little’ stout. Nothing won me over here but I can’t find anything wrong with it, this is a good flavorful stout. That’s the description I can give for this beer, and I’m really trying my best when I rate a beer because if there are two things I that I’m really ashamed of it is when one of my beer rating uses a bad grammaration or a word I just made up.

appears dark brown with no head, a few brown bubbles. Smells dark, but not too lifted. taste is dark, dry and chalky. body med. after taste slighty burnt and chalky.

Dark brown/black color; Medium slightly creamy body; Aroma of toasted malt, rich cocoa, & chocolate; Flavor of roasted malt, caramel, chocolate, and coffee; Nicely balanced; Pretty decent stout.

Draft. Pours near black with a beige head. Hard roasted malts, a little bit of sweetness, and lighter notes of ash and old coffee grounds. Not bad.