Brooklyn Dry Stout

From a deep memory, I know I had this cask conditioned at a Gingerbread Man in NYC. My memory tells me that I thought: damn. Nice.

On tap @ McNulty’s Bier Market: Black pour with a small light tan head. Aroma, roasted malts and chocolate, some coffee. Flavor, roasted malts, some coffee, medium bodied. Not bad, but it didn’t do it for me.

Had this on draught awhile back at the Winking Lizard Crosswoods location in Columbus Ohio. Beer was black. Roasted malt aroma. Coffee and chocolate flavor with a fair amount of roasted malt as well. Not too sweet and not too dry. A very drinkable beer that I thoroughly enjoyed. I wish that Brooklyn bottled this brew!

Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Black. Lightly chocolaty nose. Dry with rounded mouthfeel. Medium bodied with plenty of dark chocolate and gentle notes of grains and licorice. Medium bitterness.

(Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm 28 Apr) Dark brown, almost black colour, with ruby hints. Bubbly head. Nose is roasted, velvet, with chocolate. Taste is dominated by chocolate with a bitter-sweet finish. Lots of taste, smooth as velvet, but a bit thin body. Nice taste though.

(Cask@Oliver Twist, 1st sample sold of the cask :) Aroma of roasted malt and licorice. Slightly sour and lactic. Sourish-malty, mildly roasty and ashy, licoricey flavor with a vaguely bitter finish. Light to medium-bodied, slightly sticky palate with quite low carbonation. A tasty and balanced, although maybe a bit thin dry stout.

Cask @ Spuyten Duyvil. Pours a nice dark black with amber highlights and a nice creamy head that fades slightly. Aroma is slightly roasty, some chocolate malts, distictive hop aromas as well as slight yeasty light fruity notes. Flavor is a light dry roasted barley, light coffee, chocolate light caramel and finishes nice and dry with a light mouthfeel and aftertaste.

Another winking lizard draft, this time in fairlawn. very easy to drink, a slight chocolate flavor, almost reminds me of a stout light, but in a good sense. Very enjoyable.