Grognard Session Stout
Bellwoods Brewery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Stout Regular|
Score
7.11
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A sessionable stout ideal for summer evenings. Refreshing and creamy with roasty chocolate notes and a slight acidic finish. Served on nitro (taken from Bellwoods menu)
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from brewery. Black pour, beige head. Great roasty smoky aroma with hints of coffee, soy and cocoa. The body is light, and refreshing. The finish is dry, lightly bitter, with a great solid roasty semi sweet finish. Incredible stout!
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:38
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Courtesy of Ferris
Black color with small beige head. Fire oven bread aroma, roasted malt. Rather dry mouthfeel, less weak then expected; good roasted malt flavor, with light presence of paper and ashes in the final, mild astringency. Nice.
Black color with small beige head. Fire oven bread aroma, roasted malt. Rather dry mouthfeel, less weak then expected; good roasted malt flavor, with light presence of paper and ashes in the final, mild astringency. Nice.
Tried
on 02 Jul 2014
at 09:50
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Nitro, dark brown, aroma is cocoa, with light citrus. A tart, slightly cocoa-ish, but refreshing. Light Irishy stout.
Tried
on 24 Mar 2014
at 09:23
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Bottle: Poured a dark black color ale with a very generous brown foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of dry roasted malt with subtle coffee notes. Taste is also dominated by roasted notes with some light subtle dry coffee notes. Body is light with carbonation really too strong for the style. Enjoyable session-style stout but carbonation is almost like a Coke and doesn’t really fit the style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Feb 2014
at 13:33
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft - Nitro - Roast malts and coffee. Jet black and that nitro cream head. Roast malts, little bit of dark fruit and coffee. Light and rich at the same time. On nitro this is great, likely thin otherwise.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Nov 2013
at 14:20
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
(tap) clear very dark brown colour with a medium tall tan head; aromas of smoke, roast, smoked fruit; silky palate; balanced flavour with long light bitter finish
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Aug 2013
at 20:09
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
At Brewdown. Pours dark brown with tan head. Nose and taste of roast, chocolate and coffee. Nice roast. Lighter medium body.
Tried
on 17 Aug 2013
at 20:03
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
(Draught at Barhop) Poured what appeared to be cloudy black with a decent-sized dense, creamy tan head (nitro?), left a carpet of lace. Aroma is roasted malt, light cocoa/coffee, slight nuttiness, just a bit of leafy hops. Flavour follows the nose, with added creamy flavour/texture, a hint of sweetness with the toasty malt up front but largely dry, slight sour hints (lactic?), finish is slightly chalky, a bit of leafy hop bitterness along with the roast. Light but creamy body with soft carb leads to a much fuller mouthfeel, but still fairly crisp and really easy to drink. Can’t believe the ABV given the flavour. This is a great dry stout with food, what Guinness should be.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Aug 2013
at 18:06
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Dark chocolate and roast malt dominate this beer. Pours black with good hedge and lace. Soft carbonation. Some nut and light musk in finish. Sour and a little bitter in equal parts. Well done. Tap at brewpub.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Aug 2013
at 16:02