Brau Brothers Cream Stout

Brewed by Brau Brothers Brewing Company
Style: Sweet Stout
Lucan, Minnesota USA

Pours black with a frothy tan head. Aroma is of malt, chocolate, and sharp coffee. Taste was of malt, chocolate, and raisins, with a big coffee bite backing up the malt. Very creamy and thick mouthfeel. Drinkable, but not amazing.

pours black with creamy thick head. aroma is of chocolate and strong coffee. very malty and bitter at first, then mellows with a coffee finish.

Black colored body with a creamy tan head. Cheap milk chocolate and raisins start in the nose. Then there is some vanilla malt weird tartness. The taste is largely dark chocolate with some prunes in the finish. The malt is consistent throughout and makes this a little annoying.

Tasted 9/19/08. 12oz bottle. Pitch opaque with a finger width of khaki head. Heady aromas of toast and dark chocolate. Medium bodied with smooth character. Big cookie malt and chocolate flavors. Touch nutty. Mild, slight coffee flavor and acidity. Peanutbutter cookies with chocolate chips. Good roasted malts. Creamy with mild effervescence. I enjoyed this one. I guess I’m against the grain.

taste is of coffee and roast. maybe a bad bottle but the smell was quite skunky and so was the taste.

Pour is of course dark with a creamy tan head. Aroma is of burnt malt, light cocoa, and coffee. Flavor is slightly bitter with a lot of coffee and light chocolate. Smoth palate. Altogether not good. Not so good experiences with brau brothers. Won’t buy again.

Dusty, lightly sour aroma. Dark brown to black with a thin tan head. Tart, sour and tangy with some roast malt notes. I can’t say much more because there isn’t much more. This beer is poorly brewed or poorly bottled.

This beer is drinkable [too bad I have a six pack of it]. The beer does not hold a head [classic test is to drink a beer first, then pour the "test" beer in the emptied glass ... this avoids the head being affected by soap residue]. A little over carbonated. The roasted barley character is there and that is positive. However, there is a slight tangy flavor that doesn’t quite belong. It doesn’t taste like a Guiness Extra Stout would where they "sour" it a bit, but yet, it almost tastes a little of lactic acid. I don’t taste or feel the "cream" that is in the name. I expect the sweetness of lactose in a cream stout and it was not to be found [but perhaps it was converted by a bacterial culture?]. Color is good and a bit thin on the palette. Sorry Brau ... this beer just doesn’t light my fire.