Yukon Midnight Sun Espresso Stout

Sample courtesy of JSquire. Pours deep brown with minimal head. Lots of burnt/roasted coffee up front. Falvor is all wtered down chocolate and not mush else. Body is a tad thin.

1 litre bottle via trade with presario - Thanks Trevor! After the 8-2 thrashing the Blue Jackets took in hockey tonight I just grabbed the biggest bottle I could find in the cellar. Pours black with a healthy tan head that stays pretty well and laces well. Aroma is coffee roasted malts, and a bit of bakers chocolate. Flavor is quite tasty. Much coffee, a bit more of that dark baker’s chocolate, roasted malts.. Very pleasant flavor. Palate is very smooth and quite dry with a somewhat bitter finish. Not an overpoweringly big stout. Just a very smooth drinker that doesn’t go to any extremes. Very nice coffee stout. And contrary to what the description above says I didn’t want to share my bottle. Not at all!!

Bottle (courtesy of Presario as part of the Secret Santa): Poured a pitch-black color stout with a small brown head. Aroma is pure coffee with subtle roasted malt. Taste is definitely dominated by the coffee with pure creamy roasted malt and light bitter ending. Wow, I’m quite impressed with that one and I don’t think I ever had a beer with so much coffee in it. Body is above average but could be fuller. Alcohol is also a bit low and I think the beer could have benefited from a higher ABV. Definitely the best beer from this brewery and impressive considering the no-man land it is coming from.

Not much light found its way through the deep brownish-black pour which held a medium tan head above it for a little while. Fairly light lacing. Strong aromas of coffee, roasted malt, bittersweet chocolate, hops and a little caramel. Heavy influence of roasted malt and espresso in the flavor but even those strong flavors allowed some balancing from notes of vanilla, toffee, plums and hops. Mouthfeel not as hearty as I had hoped but it was still very silky and the finish was sweet, long and surprisingly refreshing. This certainly isn’t a beer for everyone but it really isn’t just a beer for coffee lovers either. I poured this one along with a few other heavyweights in a flight of "Dark Angels" during a beer tasting and it held up quite well. If you’re lucky enough to have access to a bottle of this, grab it.

Black, black, black. Fluffy khaki head. Nice nose. The pallatte is the weak link here- I kinda wanted a little more body. Otherwise, a fine coffee stout indeed!!

Warm black colored beer with a fluffy, creamy intens brown beige head. The nose has outspoken hints of fresh tobacco leafs, scorsaneras slightly coloured is fresh butter, Hasselts coffee liquor, fresh torrefactored coffee beans and the freshly grilled top of a crèma Cattalana. This beer has the smoothest soft burned caracter i’v ever had in a stout. There are also hints of the famous Belgian Tréfin coffee candies, doubble cream and the taste leaves a faint mineraly saltyness in the afthertaste, is it the water thy used? It is not the most powerfull stout but a very well balanced and a tasty one. Joris thanks for this very smooth black one.

Night-black; cream-brown head, fluffy leaving some lace. Pure cigar ashes in the nose, aucuba leaves, or even tobacco leaves. Moccha, creamy, dry - and real ashes taste. Sweet and roasted flavours, like some exotic BBQ. Lots of scorched sugars, but not overly coffee, which might have spoiled the fun for me. Creamy MF, not overly scorched, dry-ish and not unlike moccha coffee with cream, all the way. Very smooth stout, sweet but not overpowering in any direction. What’s the big deal? It’s OK, I like it, but nothing more. Thanks for hauling this enormous flip-top bottle over, Mike.

1 litre bottle, very dark color, with a thick creamy tan-colored head, with chocolate milk shake, roasted malt, dark malt, dark coffee, cacao, mocha and espresso aromas follow through on a full-bodied palate with a smooth espresso coffee, flavors, with mocha, roasted coffee beans, burnt notes, chocolate milk shake, leading to a lingering roasted bitter finish.