(draft) Clear red-black body with medium tan head. Aroma is medium sweet, mild, light chocolate, roast. Taste is medium sweet, roast/coffee, light chocolate. Smooth light-medium body, somewhat watery, very drinkable.

Date: 07/25/2007
Mode: Draft, Nitro
Source: Brewpub

black, dense creamy beige head, solid film of lace, light roasted aroma, creamy body, lots of dry roasted malt flavor, low bitterness for this much roast and such a black beer, a very drinkable sub 4% beer

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.2/5.0
Drinkability: 9/10
Score: **/4

Pitch black ale served on nitro and looking just like it. It offers a rather clean, roasted aroma with the quite typical gazy dark chocolate tones more than coffee. Dry on the palate. Medium bodied and creamy textured. I don’t know what to think, rather weak-flavoured, but muted from the nitro obviously.

On tap. Poured a dark and deep brown with an averaged sized tan head. aromas of roast, chocolate, and light coffee. Tastes of roast, vanilla, light coffee (iced latte), and light chocolate. Light lacing left on the glass. Thinner body.

Cask pint at Zeno’s Real Ale Fest. Thin tan head on a cola colored dark brown body. Thin coffee and burnt/char aromas, with heavy notes of old, soggy coffee in the nose. Texture is very weak and thin by cask beer standards, with heavily astringent coffee and chocolate and char, with more of that old, stale coffee ground note. Finishes thin, weak and wet. This is really a terrible beer to offer on cask, and it didn’t sit well in my stomach at all.