This stout poured a deep black colour with a creamy tan coloured head. Minimal lacing. Scents include cocoa, wieners, light coffee and a little burnt toast. First swig was quite smooth but a tad bit watery. Flavours of cocoa and coffee are most prominent. Finish is lightly sweet with cocoa flavours lingering. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

12 ounce bottle into pint glass; no bottle dating, but is a recent release. Pours nearly opaque dark brown/black color with a 2 finger dense and fluffy tan head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the head. Aromas of milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, toffee, fudge, vanilla, cream, brown bread, light coffee/nuttiness, and herbal/roasted earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt, cocoa/lactose, and light earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, toffee, fudge, vanilla, cream, brown bread, light coffee/nuttiness, and herbal/roasted earthiness. Light herbal/roasted bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, toffee, fudge, vanilla, cream, brown bread, light coffee/nuttiness, and herbal/roasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, cocoa/lactose, and light earthy hop flavors; with a great roasted bitter/sweet balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy, and lightly silky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with zero warming present after the finish as expected of 4.8%. Overall this is a very good chocolate cream stout! All around good complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, cocoa/lactose, and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth, flavorful, and easy to drink. A very enjoyable offering.

Shared bottle, pint glass. Blackish, dark brown. Dry bitter cocoa taste. Lacks smoothness of a milk or sweet stout. Not sure what they were going for but they missed.

12 oz bottle. Pours deep brown with a tan head. Aroma of chocolate, molasses, a bit of smoke. Thin smoky flavor at first, followed up with light molasses, cocoa, roast, at times a bit of red grape. Just generally very thin.

Bottle. Body is a thinning dark brown with a little bit of head. Aromas of chocolate and oatmeal. Flavor is more of the same... Not bad, but not very incredibly inspiring either. Very solid, but not very unique.

Deep dark brown coloured body with a thinnish tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, oatmeal, a touch of light chocolate, caramel, toffee and a touch of vanilla. Medium-bodied; Assertive chocolate flavours in the initial taste with a dose of vanilla and caster sugar with a little earthy malt notes, some light cream and lactic flavours and a dry oakyness on the finish. Aftertaste shows more chocolate than anything else and a little bit of roasted malt pungency. Overall, a nice sweet stout that shows a moderate level of complexity and a good reminder of the Sanders chocolate fudge that goes atop some good Michigan Ice Cream. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Merchant’s in Dearborn, Michigan on 28-April-2011 for US$1.99 sampled at home in Washington on 22-September-2011.

Bottle. Deep nearly opaque garnet red-brown body, thick tight light brown head. Woody nose with roasted malts, dark chocolate, and hints of butterscotch; chalky. Dry body with woody acidity, featuring dark chocolate and light licorice notes, with a biting finish. Not very good.

Bottle thanks to Styles. Pours black with off white head. Nose and taste of chocolate, vanilla, coffee and sweet malts.