Less brazen than brewers’ full-bodied porter, yet still rich, creamy and lactose-heavy for stylistic dry Irish Stout. Copious dark chocolate chalking and ample coffee bean bittering ascend above moderate charred hop toasting. Sticky anise upsurge intensifies sweet hazelnut and astringent walnut illusions. On tap, obsidian-hued dry body retains all its character, though roasted coffee influence is less persistent.

Middling dry Irish stout lets slick plastic impression and everlastingly harsh charcoal tarred bittering disrupt decent blackened mocha theme. Resounding coffee-burnt dark chocolate frontage accrues resinous hop char and dirty earthen spell. Ashen plum, prune and raisin subsidy lost amidst acrid phenol doldrums. On second passing, peat-soiled marble rye, pungent black tea, bourbon and molasses undertones nip at the bitter black chocolate finish.

Smooth medium-bodied mahogany-hued Irish-style dry stout proves quite versatile. Full-blown mocha frontage surges past burgundy-bourbon boozing bracing sticky anise-seeded dalliance and black coffee coda. Black cherry souring, ester-y grape tartness, brassy walnut singe, and latent charcoal burn embitter hop-oiled oats-smoked cocoa malting to earthen peat bottom.

Fizzy dry-bodied schwarzbier-like black ale misses mark. Coarse metallic shrill depletes mocha nuttiness of supposed Irish-styled stout. Oily hop-toasted grain-roasted charcoal burn overwhelms bittersweet cocoa-seeded black chocolate harshness, gnarly fig-soured chicory coffee meander and salty soy spell.

Nitro-injected canned draught pours like a milkshake, calmly settling to less creamy Guinness Stout subtlety. Billowy tan head and viscous sheets of cascading brown bubbles offer splendid visual aspect as ensuing espresso bitterness pervades frontage, but brisk water silkiness and polite roasted mocha-nut finish may put off heartier thirsts.

Strong mocha-malt aroma and black hue not indicative of soft-toned hand crafted winner. Up-front chocolate flow and sticky caramel malt sweetness imbibe subtle yeast-candied finish lacking bold bitter bite of most stouts. In a word, smooove. Brewery defunct: 2005.

Beautiful cascading brown bubbles reach frothy beige head of jet black milk stout less creamy and drier than Guinness foe. Sour coffee frontage, roasted hop backing, smoked nut nuance, and tar-stricken backlash given lactose chocolate-maple aridity by chewy vanilla-butterscotch finish just a tad oily and parched for perfection.

Creamy ebony-hued tan-headed medium-bodied dry stout with bitter dark chocolate waft, smooth ice coffee creaminess, and floral hop insistence retains barley-roasted peat malting. Plum and fig paint the corners. Burnt caramel and hazelnut endure to mild oats spine.

On tap, beige-headed Irish-styled dry stout embellishes frisky carbolic hop char with rye-malted chocolate roast to compact wheat basin, simmering to surprisingly light-bodied smoked mocha-nut finish. Lively on the tongue yet lacking robust creaminess prominent Guinness Stout offers.

Complex ‘inky black’ stout boasts lingered black coffee bitterness intensifying flaked oat sweetness and unrefined maple sappiness to resinous molasses bottom. Roasted hops secure charred wood-charcoal tone and tar-like murk to harsh cinder finish. Adjacent rich milky creaminess penetrates anise-spiced grapefruit splash and black licorice hint.

Smoked wood and burnt coffee given correlative charred hop bittering for balmy well-balanced dry-bodied Irish dry stout.

Creamy stout represents well as sticky molasses-thick anise initiation settles behind lingered espresso presence. Black coffee, milky cappuccino, mocha latte, and chicory illusions immediately confront espresso bunker, pushing through dark chocolate sweetening.