Pours mahogany-tinged black into an English pint. Tan head with very good retention leaves slow sheets as it recedes. Roasted caramel and chocolate aromas. Creamy and full with upfront chocolate turning dry in the lasting finish.

12 oz bottle courtesy of mcox90. Pour is deep brown with ruby highlights and a 1/2 tan head. Aroma of softly roasted malt, some milkiness. Clean nose, just a bit faint. Taste is the coffee roast and gentle soft lactic milkiness. Smooth palate is medium, with a long roasty finish. Nice one, thanks Michael.

Pours deep amber into a shaker. Bright white micro head with good retention leaves spotty sheets. Mild English malt and hop aromas. Crisp and dry with upfront caramel, a cookie middle and a mild hop finish.

Thanks to decaturstevo for sharing this one. Dark brown, ruby tinged body that throws up an off-white head. Leathery malt aroma. Sweet overall with some sourness that leads to a tangy finish.

Bottle: Dark brown, near black pour with a small, thin brown head. Light roast and coffee filled aroma with a subtle, sweet molasses note. Taste is a smooth coffee based stout with sweet molasses and chocolate. Light roastiness and some faint bitters in the tail. Thanks to mcox90 for this bottle in trade.

Bottle at ABF on 6/16/07
As usual for this brewery, the head foams up to a great height (I believe their beers are (or at least were) krausen conditioned) before falling to cover and leaving light lacing. Black body shows fairly low clarity and seems impenetrable.
About as much of a straight up, American stout as I can think of. Roasty and lightly chewy, with plentiful dryness, strong attenuation and the typical notes of vanilla and coffee. This one has a nice chocolate chip cookie-dipped-in-coffee sort of chewy-sweetness that hangs on the end of each sip and is cleansed at the beginning of each sip by the strong roasted dryness. Very carbonated, too much so initially, thinning out the already lacking sweetness and defining some nutty, bitter malt notes. But it softens eventually. Light vanilla lingers on pleasantly. No flaws, no alcohol noted.

Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a bright orange-copper color with a medium sized yellow-white head. The aroma is dry and spicy with light floral and fruity hops. The flavor is sharp and bitter floral hops with some vague fruity hops underneath and a hint of sweetness towards the finish.

This beer came to me in my beer club - I have never heard of the brewer before. Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a dark brown color with a large tan head. The aroma is somewhat faint but has elements of roasted malts, molasses and fruity hops. The flavor is quite bitter with floral hops and only a hint of roasty malts. What malts there are combine with a molasses element and finishes long on the tongue.

Pours dark brown into a shaker. Creamy micro head with good retention. Deep caramel malt and pine hop aromas. Slightly fizzy with upfront dry caramel with a sour, bitter hop finish.

2006 bottle consumed on 4/13/06 and numerous festival draught samples in the past two years
Mostly clear amber-bronze body with some lighter beige and hay tinges, settling out darker in the middle with a highlight of chestnut. Off-white head is small, but retained at cover well, with light lacing. Beer is bottle conditioned.
Fruit and nuts in the nose, like a moist trail-mix bar, some piquant orange, cranberry, cherry and apple notes are slowly driven off by sugary brown base malts finishing dry on a lightly toasted, somewhat bready note. Hops are marginal, contributing some minor fruitiness and plenty of hay and dry brush-like notes. Some lightly sour toasted sourdough notes can be felt on the end. Sticky caramel and pale malt sugars dull the end.
In the flavor, the roast is a little heavy, adding oily astringency and too much dryness on the end. Not terribly off to-style, but just bullies the rather highly attenuated malts. Not that the malts are overly attenuated, leading to some fairly substantial caramel and dry toffee sweetness, bit of brown breadiness to give it a full feeling on the palate and then an almost soapy, acidic finish with the dry, soily hops and bittersweet malts. Sugars build up at first, leading to too sweet a beginning, without much depth (simple caramel and pale sugars as mentioned), and then the spritzy carbonation clears the malt as the melanoidins and breadiness build up. It never regains a balance, ending lightly sour, astringent and peachy-fruity (over-ripe, spoiled peaches). Expansive, albeit natural, carbonation creates a very spacious mouthfeel. No alcohol apparent.