Nights Like These Irish Stout

16 oz. can from Total Wine. Pours a pitch black color with a small light brown head and decent retention. Very little lacing. Dark chocolate and roasted malt aroma. Very dark roasted, charred malt flavor with a semi-dry finish. Very smooth and clean. Medium-light body. Low bitterness and low carbonation too. Well done.

Roast and coffee. Black pour with good mocha head. Bitter finish. Easy drinking dry stout.

Can. Dark brown pour with a minimal beige head. Caramel malt, dark chocolate notes, faint smoke. OK.

Can at home. Dark pour with not the biggest of heads. Nose is roast and light coffee syrup. Tastes of char, coffee, grass, prunes. Creamy palate slightly thin.

Came blasting out of the can like I'd just won the World Series, so we're not off to a great start. Once the carbonation settled down: Seems to have some Belgian notes for a dry Irish stout, but I could be thrown off by the ebullient carbonation. Unsweetened chocolate meets roast, with a ester-lined background throwing up mild clove and vanilla, backed up by hints of cherry and smoke. Not bad, but not sure why a can that's been in my fridge for days opened like I just removed it from an industrial paint shaker.