Purchased bottle from Bert’s Better Beers, Hooskett, NH. Poured into a pint glass. Black in color with large frothy, tan head, leaving sheets of lacing all down the glass. Nose of roasted malt and chocolate. Taste has huge coffee notes with caramel. A nice, pleasant lingering coffee finish, dry. Medium body. Well balanced. Excellent. I will buy this again.

@Victors Fantasy Tasting-500ml bottle-pours a disappearing tan head and brown color. Aroma is coffee-dark malt. Taste is coffee, secondary dark malt bitter.

Bottle thanks to Victor at Paul’s. Pours black. Tan head. Nose/taste of smoked black malts, coffee roast, vanilla and roast chocolate. Medium body. Dryish roast coffee finish. Medium body.

I would classify this as as sweet stout. It is a sweet beer, sugar, moderately roasted malt, and coffee, which is in there but not overpowering. Well balanced with the malts and the coffee flavor. Good palate on this beer, smooth, and a little thick. A fine session beer.

New Edition to beer in NH, I brought a few bottles home today form a tasting at Bert’s. Pours a dark brown almost black color with a decent tan head that has some staying power. Smells of coffee and roasted grains. Hints of chocolate, but the coffee aromas are strong with this one. Taste is again coffee and roasted grains, slightly acridic but overall nicely coffee’d. There are hints of chocolate, caramel, and licorice in here but the coffee overwhelms most of the flavor here. Medium body, light to moderate level of carbonation, slick oily acridic mouthfeel. The coffee is strong in this, but it still has enough other flavors to keep it interesting. I like it.

Purchased at Breeze Thru Liquors in Milwaukee, WI; enjoyed on a Friday night watching the Brewers vs. the Red Sox (I live in Chicago...). Appearance was honestly weak, the pour was black but it just looked weak and it’s black with no head at all. Aroma of roasted malt and coffee, also a bit of chocolate, slightly nutty. This to me is not a stout, it’s a coffee porter. It doesn’t have that thickness to it and it’s also not milky. If I was rating this as a coffee porter, it would be great! But for a coffee stout it’s weak. Taste equal parts coffee and chocolate along with the roasted malt. OK, maybe there’s a little lactose in there but really it’s subdued. I am surprised at how easy of a drinker this is, goes down very smooth and makes you wanting more. It is good, and I do like it, but it’s not a stout.

16 oz. bottle, $2.50 @Ray’s of Wauwatosa. Yes, I just may have something nice to say about a product from Green Bay. I wanted to test it against a Chicago version, but most stouts with coffee are of Imperial strength. So this stands alone. Note: Label says it’s made by Green Bay Brewing.
Pours black with the darkest brown head I can remember. Smell has the roasty malt of a stout, with some burnt marshmallow. Can’t pick out coffee in the nose, but it’s still a nice smell. Taste is full of the roasty goodness of a dry stout, no touch of sourness to my buds. Malt stays just this side of being harsh or astringent. Coffee is found first with bitter edges, then impressions of espresso on the middle of my tongue. I will see in a few hours if this is enough to keep me awake. But this is a fine example of a beer matched with coffee, rather than overwhelmed by it.

Dark brown. Aroma of Starbucks and Hershey bar. Taste of dilute coffee, but not much else.

16 ounce bottle courtesy of Mr. Pickles. Thanks! 5/12/10. Pours a very dark brown color with a thin head. Good head retention and lacing. A nice dry aroma with notes of coffee, roast and light caramel. The taste is bitter fresh coffee with a bit of a sweet note, bitter roasted malts and bitter hops. Very dry, very bitter, but still good. Medium bodied, smooth and creamy. Nice beer.

Draft in Milwaukee. Opaque black with a thin tan head. Smooth nitro mouthfeel with a decided coffee edge. A touch watery, as per the style I suppose. Good stuff, albeit rather middle-of-the-road. Chocolate milkshake finish.