Can @Beershoppe (Rome). Nera, abbastanza profonda, schiuma beige. Al naso note di caffè e cioccolato fondente, non molto intensa. In bocca è abbastanza ben equilibrata, con chiusura amara media. Corpo medio, carbonazione medio-leggera. Ok.

Foreign stout from the country, even the city – though decidedly not the brewery – that invented it around 1800; it is nice to see that the countless Irish craft breweries that have emerged in recent years spend so much attention to their own beer heritage, producing dry and other stouts as well as Irish red ales by the gallon, often of very decent quality. Thanks to Craftmember for sharing this one. Thick and moussy, pale greyish beige, slowly breaking but generally stable head lacing in shreds over a black beer with burgundy edges. Aroma of cold black coffee, wet leather, roasted walnuts, charcoal even, salmiak, unsugared bitter chocolate, dried wormwood, black olives. Dry and slightly umami-tinged onset (porcini) with a vague touch of prune-like sweetness, softish carb, full and oily body; caramelly maltiness without the sweetness of it, dry from the start, with a nutty and leathery edge, quickly turning quite roasted bitter in a full-fledged, black coffee-like way, a bitterness further accentuated by a peppery hop dosage in the end. Dry and powdery mouthfeel, bit chewy even – a very dry, very Irish stout indeed, at the right strength for a foreign or export stout; granted, most historical foreign stouts and export stouts still in existence tend to exhibit more sweetness than this new example, but I really enjoyed it just for being so dry and uncompromisingly roasty.

Can from KWM. Appearance - jet black with a big foamy tan to fawn head. Nose - dark chocolate, roast coffee. Taste - milky coffee this time with just a hint of cola. Palate - surprisingly for the ABV, just light to medium bodied, but with good length. Overall - nice.

Can. Jet black with a solid creamy head. Aroma of roasted coffee and chocolate. Flavour is dry fruit, dark chocolate on a dry coffee malt finish.