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

(On tap @ the brewpub, Mar 24/23) Pours ery dark brown with a thick medium tan nitro head and lace. Quick rate: heavily burnt and charred sugars and grains, some sweetness from the caramel but behind the earthy and bitter roast, surprising amount of (spent) coffee given the lack of it as an adjunct, graham cracker becomes more apparent with warmth but in a sugarless way, vanilla/marshmallow makes up for that with a cloying heavily floral sugar component, finish has sweet sugars, though with prominent roast acidity meeting charred earthy bitterness and some resinous sticky stuff it is rather all over the map, long clingy old coffee vibes in the aftertaste. Medium-plus body, creamy from the nitro, coats the tongue. A lot of ideas here, some very valid, but the execution is a mess. Doesn't really feel like pastry either. Compared to the other 2 stouts from them so far this is a bit of a miss (though still better than almost any shelf stout in the province...).