Depot Street Roundabout Rye Stout

Brewed by Depot Street Brewing
Style: Stout
Jonesborough, Tennessee USA

Date: 09/23/2006
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewfest, Asheville

black with ruby edges, big dense tan head, dry roasted malt aroma with a slight hint of styleistic tartness, creamy body with a bit of oily character, nice mellow roasted flavor, light bitterness in the finish, the tartness is present in the flavor to add a bit of complexity,

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.8/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *4

12oz bottle @Noogfest4.0-thanks unclejedi–pours a disappearing off white head and dark brown color. Aroma is sweet dark malt-molasses/some brown sugar/coffee. Taste is dark malt-coffee, secondary bitter English/earthy hops. A bit thin.

Bottle sampled at Noog Four-0 5/31/08: Pours a barely transparent dark mahogany with a spotty-lacing light tan head. Aroma of fresh, dry grainy rye and malt with a touch of roasted malt. Body starts semi-sweet grainy and roasty before a thinner drier bittersweet finish with some lingering dark chocolate and rye. An interesting brew.

Dark brown, with a thick creamy head. fiant aroma of rye toast. Bready, malty flavor and a hint of coffee. crisp finish. Sampled at the 2005 Asheville Brewer’s Jam.

The aroma fits the style pretty good but it has some metallic and smokey elements that go over the top for me. The toastiness is there as is coffee but still it’s not good enough for me. The appearance is nice with an average head and deep dark brown color. The flavor is like the aroma. The palate is OK but too thin for me. Overall a drinkable stout that is somewhat dry.

12 oz bottle. Pours a clear black body with a large frothy light brown head that lasted forever. The nose is mostly roasty, but there’s a light rye bread accent. Some coffee and burnt notes. The flavor is clearly infected though, rancid and acrid burnt malt with a heavy sour twang on the back end. The earthy rye flavor plays up the sour even heavier. Thin and overly fizzy from the infection with a lingering burnt finish. This was actually almost drinkable, in the way that the Captain Lawrence SFTO series was, but it’s even more obvious that this wasn’t intentional.

Sampled at the brewery. Pours nearly black with a medium head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of roasted malts, caramel and smoke. Taste of roasted malts, coffee and a bitter finish. Medium bodied.

Sampled at Music City Brewers Festival.Pours dark brown with a khaki head. Faint aroma of molasses, caramel, and dark roasted malt. Flavor caramel, maple syrup, rye, and a hint of dark roasted malt. Very close to porter in my opinion. Slight bitter finish, with some astringincy and some other strange flavor I can’t pinpoint.