Blue Cat Mississippi Mocha Coffee Stout

On tap at GTMW. Poured deep brown with a huge cap of creamy tan head. The aroma picked up soft, toasty coffee and black patent malts paired with mulled earthy accents.. warm and inviting. The flavor had lots of coffee again, but this time joined by odd, funky oxidation character.. not much to keep it interesting either. Tacky and slightly sour on the palate, with the dreaded cardboard coming through.. this didn’t hold up very well after that initial impression.

Sample #11 at GTMW. Deep burnt coffee flavor married to a little bit of chocolate. It’s hard to get this beer to stand up right after I’ve had the America’s Double BB Cherry Imperial Stout. Look is a solid brown, thin head. Taste has definite overdone coffee notes, but right now, I think that’s a good thing. Beer really doesn’t linger on the tongue. I wonder what the deal is with all the coffee beers in the Quad Cities.

On tap at the GTMW. Dark brown with a medium than head. Aroma of roasted malt, coffee and mild funk. Taste of coffee, roasted malt, mild sweet malt and something mildly sour and acidic.

Drank 3 pints first time I had it! Quite delicious, but not outstaaaanding. Big creamy chocolate with low carbonation and tones of coffee. Had this again in 2009 and it wasn’t nearly as good as in 2008 - much too acidic... but I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt.

Draft at the brewpub. 15 IBU’s. Poured an opaque black color. The head was tan and reduced over a period of a few minutes to a lasting film. No significant lace was left behind. The aroma was of coffee, a little less toffee, brown sugar, and a hint of vanilla. Medium bodied and semi-sweet. Roasty bitterness mingled with the sugars in the middle, and there was mild acidity at the end. Mild bitterness lingered by itself after the finish. Coffee, brown sugar, toffee, and chocolate flavors mingled in fairly equal proportions. Decent beer.