Dragonmead Earl Spit Stout

Brewed by Dragonmead Brewery
Style: Dry Stout
Warren, Michigan USA

On tap: Aroma is mostly black coffee. Very slight chocolate. Dark brown, virtually black. Flavor is all coffee. No malt. Coffee all the way thru with an intensified black coffee bitterness in the finish.

cask-conditioned: Mahogany hued black. Creamy mocha foam. Aroma boasts shoe polish and soft, well-rounded roastiness. Whispers of cocoa, burnt malt hulls, and smoke. Very soft, but chalky, body. Poorly conditioned. Cottony roast texture with a chalky cocoa flavor. Midway, a toasted wood firmness increases alongside a splash of bittersweet chocolate-covered cherries, caramel, and chalky roast acidity. Burnt malt hulls dominate the finish and fail to beef up the body as the acidity becomes more exaggerated. Watery and unadventurous.

Black with a touch of dark red at the edges. A light tan head as well. Coffee molasses and roasted malt aroma. Carmel, and coffee dryness and malts in the taste and maybe some honey. Tasy.

sampler from the brewery. poured black with a tan head. aroma brown sugar,dark cherries, malts molasses. flavor coffee,malts, choc. goooood

This draft brew from the brewery poured a large sized head of finely sized dark brown colored bubbles that left behind a good lacing. The body was uncarbonated opaque and dark ruby red brown in color. The aroma was that of medium strength dark malts and molasses. The mouth feel was tingly yet smooth with a malty palate. The flavor contained notes of dark malts, molasses and was somewhat sweet.

Thickest of the stouts on tap at my visit. No head, but a few lonely bubbles on top. Excellent chocolate cake nose, very distinctly CHOCOLATE CAKE! Rich and chewy from the first "bite". Roasty flavors at the end bring it to a somewhat dry end. Wow, it is rich and thick...yummmm...... Even better as it warmed, showing some hints of hops in the long chocolatey finish.