Forceful Starbuck’s-like dark roasted coffee strength fortifies milky brown chocolate richness, mild cappuccino-espresso stint, and creamy vanilla resiliency coarsened by earthen hazelnut-walnut sash. Though pallid cola hue seems strangely light for robust style, its silken lactose flow secures mocha java, vanilla bean, chicory, and pipe tobacco illusions of moderate Irish dry stout.

Thick ebony-hued full body offers adequate black coffee bittering and dark chocolate creaminess. Nutty bottom sharpens woodsy hop char.

Marauding dry-roasted coffee bulk drapes creamy mocha malt moderation, cocoa-powdered souring, and tart dried fruiting. Currant-spiced raisin, plum, and port illusions aid hop-spiced jigger, bringing extra pizzazz to maple-sapped blackstrap molasses finish. Closer to coffee porter than robust stout, though.

Though ‘enriched with ruby port,’ mildly bitter dry stout lacks expectant bold wine sweetness. Instead, burnt coffee sourness infuses leathery smoked peat mouthfeel, cedar chip waft, roasted nut backdrop, and black licorice stickiness with coarse mocha resonance. Obtrusive artisan water zaps inconspicuous fruity malt finish of robustness.

Lacy jet black-hued ruby-sidled dry stout fortifies coffee-roasted espresso bitterness. Smoky molasses malts, flaked oats, dark caramel, and burnt toast permeate mid-palate brisk water crispness before lingered mocha finish gets black licorice infer.