Black Fly Stout
Gritty McDuff's in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Dry Regular|
Score
6.48
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There's beer and then there's stout, and Gritty McDuff 's Black Fly Stout is the real deal. Black Fly is a dry, all-malt stout packed with roasted flavor. We use six different grains in the brewing of this dark masterpiece and balance the full palate with Oregon Willamette and Yakima Clusters hops. Like the legendary Irish stouts that inspired it, Black Fly Stout is rich, robust and a touch mysterious. The finest stout west of Galway Bay!
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Black body and a tan head. Roasted malt and chocolate aroma. Bitter dark chocolate predominates the taste. Roasted malts. Light to medium bodied. Could be a lot fuller for a stout. Coffee aftertaste.
Tried
on 28 May 2009
at 16:07
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle: Dark brown with a big tan head. Aroma is a huge roasty, cocoa, and coffee filled blast. Very nice. Taste mellows out considerabley and is mostly roast with a little bittersweetness. Some stale coffee. Smells fantastic, but it doesn’t deliver in taste. Thanks to mcbackus for the trade bonus.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Feb 2009
at 20:14
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Huge dark beige, creamy head over nearly black beer. Very neutral nose, liquorice, molasses, smoked bark. Extremely dry taste, coffee grits, bark spices, charcoal, burnt. Background sweetness. Not bad in the matter of balance. Medium bodied at best, creamy texture. Pleasing taste, certainly for a light-meant stout.
Tried
on 19 Nov 2008
at 15:01
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours dark brown with a thick brown head. Aroma is roasted malts, charred, on the weak side. Taste is roasted, some coffee, hops bitterness, malts and grains Does have some sweetness close to lactose. Beer leaves a dry mouthfeel overtaking most of the actual taste.
Tried
on 04 Sep 2008
at 00:22
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pretty dark brown, nearing opaque, tan head, pitted egg shell texture. Aroma has a nice mix of dark chocolate and roasted grain, and just a little hint of cappucino. Flavor is more coffeeish, with chocolate and roasted grains in the background. Finish is dry, somewhat husky/tart and reveals a fairly decent resiny hopping. A respectable dry stout.
Tried
on 07 Jul 2008
at 18:47
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
12oz bottle pours black with near infra red edges and semi bumpy-frothy mocha head. The aroma is a mix of burnt malts and coffee grounds to go along with mild levels of caramel and vanilla. The taste starts semi vanilla sweet and quickly moves to dark roasted malts and coffee. A burnt malt note rises up and grows into the finish becoming nearly ashy. Into the after taste I’m left with burnt malts and a return of the vanilla note.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jun 2008
at 21:33
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
12oz bottle-pours a foamy to rocky light brown head and black color. Aroma is mild dark malt-some chocolate, husky. Taste is dark malt-coffee/chocolate/husky/chickory, husky, some hops. Finishes thin.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jan 2008
at 19:00
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
My friend Matt brought this one to me from a trip to Maine. Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a black color with a medium sized dark brown head. The aroma was dry, bitter, roasty and a almost gritty. The flavor was bitter, roasty and dry with a strong expresso element. The body was quite thin and watery. The flavor was spot on for a dry stout but the body was nowhere near.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Dec 2007
at 10:23
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Poured a deep, dark, opaque black with an off white head that condensed to a thin film. Smells of nuts, roasted malts, and a little metallic. Flavor is watery and all nuts and roasted malts with not a whole lot else. Coffee like finish. Standard dry stout, won’t surprise you.
Tried
on 22 Sep 2007
at 20:34
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
Pitch black coloured body with a super thin tan head. Deep roasty smell, chocolate and coffee also noticeable as well. Medium-bodied; Nice strong malty flavour with some coffee notes. Aftertaste shows bitter and dark characteristics - nice! Overall, a good stout, nice to try. I sampled this twelve ounce botttle purchased at Oliver’s Beverage in Albany, New York on 10-March-2007.
Tried
on 27 Mar 2007
at 23:48