 tronraner (1905), Maryville, Tennessee, USA
Sep 7, 2009 Draught at the brewpub. Pours brown-black with khaki head. The aroma is slightly smoky with thorough roastiness, some chocolate and toffeee notes. The flavor is clean roastiness with peanut notes and a mild acidity. Bitter chocolate and wood come out in the finish. Definitely on the lighter side, but not too bad.
changeup45 (782), Orlando, Florida, USA
Nov 18, 2008 Dark color, pretty much black, with a medium sized tan head. The first flavor I noticed was coffee then some light roasted maltiness with bitter hops following. I thought this beer was a tad thin and I really could sum it up with coffee and some bitter hops being pretty much what I got out of it. Still, it wasn’t bad at all and definitely a decent drink.
timsilvia32 (444), from Michigan now in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Aug 17, 2008 Opaque pour, almost no aroma with this. Light roasted malt. Some coffee, roasted/burnt malts, very little if any chocolate. Needed just a little more of pretty much everything you expect from a stout. It was very drinkable however. Of the 3 I sampled, this was probably the best at BRBC.
ChainGangGuy (2522), Kennesaw, Georgia, USA
Dec 13, 2007 Appearance: Opaque black body with a small, thin khaki-colored head.
Smell: Aroma of unsweetened chocolate and anise with just a dash of black coffee.
Taste: Dark chocolate and spicy anise start the taste. Just when a mild sweetness begins to emerge the earthy, roasty bitterness kicks in and last into the finish.
Mouthfeel: Medium-thin body. Mild carbonation.
Drinkability: Solid for one of those less-than-sweet stouts.
argo0 (6842), Washington DC, USA
Oct 28, 2007 Black body with tan head. Aroma is medium sweet, roast, some coffee, light chocolate. Taste is mild sweet, roast, some coffee, light burnt. Light-medium body.
walter (359), Staunton, Virginia, USA
Sep 23, 2007 Draft, Blue Ridge Brewing Co., Greenville SC. Black with tan head. Aromas of roasted malt, coffee, dark chocolate. Flavor is all of these, but with something fairly off in the background, as if the water is highly chlorinated or something. Strange. My wife’s blueberry ale had the same problem. Everything else about the beer was fine, save for the palate being a bit thin, but whatever was funky in there just ruined the experience. Great food though!
kp (8400), Woodstock, Georgia, USA
Sep 1, 2007 Updated: Jan 17, 2009
Date: December 23, 2006
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub
Appearance: black with ruby edges, wispy tan head
Aroma: light roasted aroma with a nice sweetness
Body: creamy body
Flavor: lots of roasted flavor, long bitter finish, a bit too much burnt roasted malt in the finish
Date: March 30, 2007
Mode: draft
Source: brewpub
Score: 3.2 to 3.4
picking up some sweet chocolate flavor to balance the roasted, the burnt malt astrigency has been cut back to acceptable levels and replaced with some nice hop flavor and bitterness
Date: April 13, 2008
Mode: draft
Source: brewpub
Score: 3.4 to 3.5
Aroma: dark chocolate aroma with a touch of sourdough
Flavor: the milk chocolate flavor continues to grow with this batch keeping the roasted and bitterness in control, dark chocolate showing up for balance this time rather than the roasted
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 14/20
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+/4
shrubber85 (2826), Wallhalben, Germany
Jun 16, 2007 Tap. Chocolate coffee malt aroma with light smokiness. Dark black-brown with slight film of a head. Light charcoal chocolate malt flavor. Light bodied. A light easy drinking stout.
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