Short rate from terse notes just after St Patrick’s Day. Draft at Big Time. Black nitro pour, foam nitro khaki head. Aroma: metal, chocolate, Guinness, nutty toast. Taste: copper, chocolate, toast in the finish. Lasting roasty finish. Light body, poundable, creamy. Overall: alright.7/4/6.5/4/12.

Sample at the brewpub. Pours nearly black with a medium thin and creamy light beige head that dissipates to a dense film. Sticky rings of lacing on the glass. Aroma of roasted malt and chocolate. Light, semi-dry body with flavors of sweet toasted malt, chocolate and a touch of smoke. The finish is short and malty. Slightly above average overall.

Pours a nice creamy finger of head with a dark red/brown color. Smell is subtle coffee and a bit of marshmallow and toffee, pretty malty too. Texture is creamy, very drinkable, not very viscous. Taste is a bit ashy, roasted malt, grainy, tiny bit sour on the end. Pretty good Irish Dry Stout.

Cask-cond’d version @ brewpub. Not much head on an opaque black beer. Aroma of simple coffee, some creamer, butter, and Coffee Crisp candy bar. Hardly any co2 but has a nice silkiness. Good smoky flavors and love the sweet soft licorice in the background. That does not overpower the the mild cocoa creme. Sweet in a licorice way and more woody, like toasty wood, than anything else at the end.

Black. Lassting nitro head thick creamy lacing. Nice cocoa coffee aroma. Light dry body. Creamy coffee stout.

Black with a creamy head and great lacing. Nose of smoke and roast malts. Beef jerky!? Todd concurs. Woody and more smoke in the flavor with some roast and bitter chocolate. Creamy palate of course (nitro) and thick smoke rolls through the finish.

Sampled @ Big Time, April 2007
Pours with a rich, creamy, nitrogen generated head that has a brown tinged, tan color. The beer is simply black, when analyzed in this pub atmosphere. The aroma is rich with notes of toasty malt, chocolate, a touch of coffee aromatics and a hint of burn raisin adds some unexpected fruitiness. The beer tastes dry and fairly bitter in the finish. The bitterness seems to be driven by the burnt malt notes rather than by hops. A touch of coffee flavors are here, focusing on roast bean flavors. This has a very creamy mouthfeel to it, which is typical of a degassed nitrogenated brew. The finish has a lingering, toasted, dry grain character to it. This is a good easy drinking brew, and a definite step up from draught Guinness.

UPDATED: APR 27, 2007 Draft. Nitro. Blackish beer with a tan nitro head. Roasty aroma. Light flavor, slightly sour, slight roast. Lingering sourness/lactic. Lighter bodied.

(Draught) Sampled at Big Time Brewpub in Seattle on March 2, 2007. Pours a light brown head with an opaque body. Nose of JERKY. Yah - strange huh? Chocolate flavour, good carbonation and gritty texture. Lasting cocoa and coffee in the finish. Powerful and oodles of flavour. I loved this stuff

Black with creamy beige head.Chocolate espresso nose. Bitter unsweetend chocolate taste. Far too thin. Probably the worst offering I have had from this brewery.