Vigorous Stone/ Troegs collaboration brings lusty dark chocolate richness to enthusiastic Scotch whiskey boozing, picking up ashen charcoal astringency for obsidian-hued dry-bodied milk stout. Ascending vanilla and coffee bean bittering overshadows restrained black cherry-pureed blackberry-blueberry-elderberry dried fruiting. Luscious bourbon easement seeps into bold mocha-bound affluence. Tertiary brandy-wined chocolate-caked cherry jubilee illusions float by. But its murky flavor profile crowds too many wandering adjuncts.

Casual all-malt milk stout layers lactic brown and black chocolate plasticity above creamy vanilla-coffee subtlety. Dry wood-smoked malt roasting, soapy soy milking, and dark-fruited tinge a tad too slick. Light nuttiness smothered inside frothy farmhouse fodder.

Admirable mahogany-hued medium body leisurely punctuates iced coffee frontage with roasted hop blackening and dry chocolate resin. Vanilla and maple illusions deepen steadfast cola-macadamia nuttiness beneath.

Robust mahogany-hued lactose stout integrates abundant bittersweet chocolate-milked creaminess with nutty hop-seared espresso-coffee richness. Chewy fudge center procures molasses-thick cookie dough bulwark protecting honey-roasted oats, assuaged dried fruits and zippy cola-hazelnut snip against acrid tobacco-chawed charcoal-tar bittering. Even a hint of anisette sneaks into the mix.

Dry mahogany-hued ruby-highlighted milk stout retains bittersweet dark chocolate stickiness, overripe black cherry whirl, and thick lactose tag. Roasted coffee bean, toasted oats, and hazelnut offer sullen sequel for excellent nightcap.

Maroon-hued Irish-styled dry stout furnishes dark chocolate drift and bitter coffee caress with charcoal smokiness resonating to acrid black cherry sedation. Brewery defunct: 2007.

Hearty wood-burnt stout with aromatic coffee pungency, pliable bitter mocha resolve, and buttery cocoa repose. Bittersweet chocolate, black cherry, and raisin gain extremely dry affluence by lingered rich coffee finish.

Artificially sweetened coffee palate, chalky cocoa follow-up and chewy chocolate spell depleted by sharp astringency as well as watery flow. Light caramel dusting at sulky finish fades out. A tepid stout lacking richness and complexity.

Tempting dry-bodied mahogany-hued lactose stout leads with powdery cocoa spell deepening hop-roasted macadamia cluster. Dampening astringent black licorice finish confounds winningly sugared brown chocolate sweetness.

Chewy autumnal stout with dry malt sweetness, maple influence and blackened mocha singe. Stove-burnt coffee bitterness and chocolate cookie thickness provide further thirst-craving full-bodied richness. Dark caramel shadows oats-flaked sourdough follow-through. Not as creamy or memorable at the finish as most first class stouts, but fine nonetheless.

Nicknamed “Lion Stout,”  brown-bodied barleywine-like Caribbean backs sugary sweet soda-like flow with boorish malt roast and toffee stickiness. But instead of depending on traditional mocha-like stout character, its medicinally cloy finish comes up too lame to be the wild beast its moniker pertains to.