Brau Brothers Cream Stout

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

Date: 12/22/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party

dark brown, fine beige head, streaks of lace, sweet roasted and chocolate aroma, sweet chocolate and caramel flavor, light lactic tartness to balance the sweetness,

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 3/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 5/20
Rating: 2/5.0
Drinkability: 2/10
Score: -/4

Pours a barely transparent dark mahogany with a spotty-lacing froth of dark tan head. Aroma of milk chocolate and a touch of earthy hops and some fusels. Body starts thinner, effervescent and semi-tart with a thinner slightly lingering roasty finish. I’m guessing this is in the early stages of an infection as well as most of their other stuff.

Pours dark brown with a tan head. Smells of sweet malt, caramel, chocolate, some peppery hints. Taste yields an astringent bitterness that gets in the way along with some rubbery hints. Nose is much better than the flavor.

Sampled draught at the Autumn Brew Review in Minneapolis, October 7 2006. Near-opaque black, small creamy white head and a bit of lace, looks like nitro but not sure....chocolate and coffee for typical roasty nose, faint hints of fresh herbs (rosemary, thyme) but fairly weak overall....chocolaty-sweet body is fairly pleasant at first but the light roast becomes overbearing towards the thin, papery 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.

Received 12-oz sample bottle to try from distributor. Another nice looking ACL printed bottle. Pours an opaque very dark brown brew with a creamy thick off white head. Nice lacing on the disolve. Aroma has character of dark chocolate, coffee, and some spicey herbs. Taste is smooth, tasted/burnt malt, some coffee and spice. Finish is a little metalic and thin. The "Cream" Stout may come from the creamy head, the finish is a little thin to most other sweet stouts I’ve tried.

Thanks to Bob for the bottle! Poured medium-deep brown with a thick cap of tan head. The aroma picked up sweet, milky chocolates and vanilla with a decidedly cake and brownie feel to it.. sweet and succulent. The flavor found semi-sweet chocolate and black patent maltage at the core.. sharp earthy and bitter coffee notes surrounded.. rather ugly malts and the aforementioned bitterness on the finish. Well-carbonated on the palate, which probably contributed to the sharpness.. beyond that, it had a smooth enough feel. This started out good and ended up meh.

Autumn Brew Review 2004. Pours a nice, black color with a tiny head. Good roasted aroma. More roasted malt and coffee in the flavor. Unfortuantely, the body strikes me as watery. Not terrible.