Back Road Belle Gunness Stout

Brewed by Back Road Brewery
Style: Dry Stout
LaPorte, Indiana USA

Some coffee on the tongue; well-balanced. Good head formation and retention. There is some promise.

Dark brown color,small tan head that faded quickly.malty sweet aroma with a hint of chocolate and hops.Nice mild malt flavor with a bit of fruit maybe some bananna and possibly a little vanilla,with a decent hop taste that is a bit bitter at the end but not much so.This is a nice brew,not real high on flavor but still decent enough to be worth having a few more around.Thanks go to BBB63 for sending this brew.

Quick dying solid tan head came from the black pour. It being watery stands out. Bitter dark chocolate with occasional hints of sweetness followed by a dry, slightly smoky, bitter after taste.

Bottle pours fairly black with brown highlights, small cream colored head, and likeable lacing.   Aroma is of roasted malts, dough, and a bit of malty sweetness.   I also detect a nice chocolate smell.   Initial taste is smooth, perhaps notes of milk chocolate and coffee.   An ever so slight chalkiness is present.   Minor hints of anise.   Mouthfeel is a bit thin, but not too bad.   Not as dark/strong as I would have thought, but highly drinkable regardless.   Thanks goes out to acrodizer for the trade!

Originally rated this a 2.6, but the other bottles I had weren't so bad. It was still hard to detect much from this one. The aroma has a mild vegetable quality, and the flavor was a thin and mild chocolate and coffee. A regular stout.

Thinnish, brown/black with a small tan head. Aroma of motor oil, coffee, roasted barley, some astringence. Strong bitter flavor with a touch of sweetness. Too much roasted malt gives it a sense of drinking burnt toast with some coffee.

i could discover no definition for "gunness", and "belle" seems a bit of wishful thinking if it's in reference to the beer's character. dark as a north korean city at midnight, a faint roan cusp appears when prodded with light. wood putty colored head seemed fizzy and kept falling asleep at it's post, but a stern shaking brings it around again. thin aroma has an uncanny resemblance to a bicycle innertube, which is not a good thing; perhaps burnt coffee- to be a bit more charitable--and a slight plummy note. rubbery overtone ruined it for me, but the charred malts, thorough dryness, assertive carbonation, weenie level of alcohol, thin body and tinny bite all stood by and watched the thing go to hell. but, okay, it's way better than having no beer at all.

Pours jet black with medium creamy tan head. Head dissipates fairly quickly. Aroma is mildly sweet, chocolate, coffee. Taste is mild -- light sweet, coffee, light chocolate. Light/medium watery body. To paraphrase Subaru, "Inoffensive, and built to stay that way."