7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

(473ml can from the brewery) Pours nearly black with a thin pale brown head and little lace. Aroma is very roast-heavy at first, that fruity-acidic quality mixed with burnt grains and some char. Fortunately a little air helps it, revealing some earthy chocolate, moderate marshmallow, soft coffee and a little floral accent. Flavour is pretty roast-forward but thankfully a little less than the nose, with lower acidity. Balance is moderate-plus sweet and moderately bitter, notes of burnt grain and dark rye bread, molasses, heavy marshmallow, moderate earthy low bitterness coffee, some cocoa, fairly floral mid sip on thanks to the marhsmallow but with clear roasty bitterness and more coffee coming up in the finish. Medium-bodied, average carbonation, a bit slick. Rather too roast-forward for the concept for me. Not really smores without graham crackers and cacao/choc adjuncts imo, this was a roasty marshmallow stout and solid at it.