Union Barrel Works Round Boy Stout

Brewed by Union Barrel Works
Style: Stout
Stevens, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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Cask. Pours deep, dark brown with average, creamy beige head; decent retention and minimal lacing. Aroma is chocolate malts, toffee, light coffee, light earthy hops, plums, and raisins. Flavor is roast malt forward with milk chocolate, dark fruit esters, and faint earthy hops; creamy, dry finish. Light body and low carbonation.

Beer engine. Pours clear black with a medium, frothy light tan head, medium retention with good lacing. Aroma is dark chocolate and roast malt with earthy coffee notes and dark fruity esters. Flavor is dark malt dominant with medium bitterness, light hops and fruity esters with a dry finish. Medium to light body and medium carbonation.

"Firm body"...hardly. This stout was thin and left my mouth wanting more. Disappointing. Just okay.

Fairly solid example of the style although the mouthfeel was a bit thin for my taste. Pours very dark brown with a finger of khaki head. Nice notes of roasted coffee on the nose. The taste is more of chocolate. It finishes clean.

on draft at the brewery, pours black with a medium tan head. Aroma is roasted malt and toffee. Flavor is chocolate covered cherries with a smoky charcoal bitterness.

On tap. Pours a dark brown with a very thin tan head. Aroma is heavily roasted malts, some dark chocolate and a little coffee. Flavor is much the same - on the bitter side. Somewhat dry. Standard stout - drinkable, but ordinary.

at brewpub for a beer dinner event. Poured black with a small tan head. Aroma of light coffee and chocolate. Taste of chocolate, light coffee, light citrus, (maybe even a little sour), light bodied and prickly on the tongue.

On tap @ UBW. Pours a clear dark brown body with a small light brown nitro head. Nice coffee and roasty nose with a little nuttiness. Very dry roasty flavor, lots of black patent malt. Lingering burnt toast finish with light bitterness. Ususl thin nitro’d body, but the carbonation is actually a little prickly, the gas mix must be a little higher on the CO2 than most. Pretty good, if you’re into drier Stouts. Deceptive in its color, I thought that this was going to be lighter on the roast.

Draft at the brewery. Pretty dark color with a moderate tan head. Aroma of coffee, chocolate and malt. Flavor was a little odd, as it tasted like high quality weed. (Not that I have done that in many, many, years.) That dominated the flavor, but the coffee and chocolate came thought slightly.

(USA) Pours a dark brown almost black color with a med dissipating tan head. The aroma is of chocolate and coffee. The taste is much of the same with a hint of roasted malts. The palate is smooth and sweet. very nice !!!