Wisby Stout

Brewed by Gotlands Bryggeri (Spendrups)
Style: Dry Stout
Visby, Sweden

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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A black beer with a lazing brown head. The aroma has notes of hops and chocolate. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, and hops, leading to a bitter finish.

From tap at Paddys. Pours hazy dark brown to black with a small, lacing tan head. Aroma is roasted mal malty. Caramelish to chocolate. Dense dark malty and roasted. Bitter, dry and roasted. Chocolate and bitter. Ends roasted and dark malty. 

Draught@Bishops Arms Vasagatan, Stockholm (old backlog). Quite much pitch black colour with a slightly off-white head (quite Guinness like looks actually). Aroma is smooth roasted malts, some mild liquorice, ashes and mild caramel. Flavour is roasted malts, liquorice, ashes, some caramel and mild dry wooden notes.

Draught at Man in the Moon, Stockholm. Pitch black, small beige head. Tarry nose. Bone dry with clean, hard mouthfeel and light body. Salty and quite harsh, with marked resiny bitterness. The hard malt character reduces the drinkability.

Draught at Paddys, Malmö. Clear dark brown coloured with a creamy beige head. Light roasted aroma of caramel and dried fruits with notes of dark chocolate. Light roasted flavour of caramel and liquorice. Light roasted finish.

Draft @ Paddy’s, Malmö. Pours a black color with a small creamy beige head. Has a dry roasted malty chocolate aroma. Roasted malty chocolate and caramel flavor with bitter hints. Has a roasted malty dry chocolate finish.

Draught. Creamy off-white good mostly lasting head. Black colour. Moderate malty and moderate hoppy aroma. moderate bitter very dry roasted flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. Oily palate.

Draught at Bishops Arms, Järntoget. Black with a beige head. Tar aroma, roasted, some licorice and cocoa. Tar flavor a bit harsh, a bit thin.

Keg at Ardbeg Embassy, Stockholm. Pours black-brown-red with a mocha-tan foam cap. Dark, toasty malt nose, burnt leaves, earth. Light sweet flavor with lots of dry, charred malts, gritty toast, soil, dirt, minerals and burnt grass bitterness. Light to medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Quite dry and bitter to finish, with rich charcoal, dark earth, dry cocoa, faint coffee grinds. Pretty gritty. Not bad. Nice charred wood notes, dustry cocoa.

Black in color with an off-white head. Roasted malt with a hint of toast and coffee. Really quite bland and somewhat watery. A mild acidity to it, too. The flavor is just bland and roasty. Some coffee and perhaps cocoa powder. Very little sweetness. Very dry and somewhat acidic. A little bit bitter, too.