Dunedin Nitro Stout

Brewed by Dunedin Brewery
Style: Dry Stout
Dunedin, Florida USA

Tap at the brewery. Pours to a really dark black body with dark red hues around the edges. A long lasting densely packed creamy tan head sits on top. The aroma is a strong dry coffee bean and typical Irish stout aromas. The flavor is really good for a 4.8% beer. Rich cold extract coffee meets that astringent black malt. Some light walnuts. The palate is really drying and leaves you wanting a glass of water. Slick texture. Medium body up front but light and airy on the finish.

CO2 draught: Murky dark brown, off-white lace. No nose! Flavor is coffee and grocery store brand chocolate ice cream. Dry and delicious. More hops than some other stouts I’ve had, and the CO2 was a little rough. No problem finding the bitter chalky finish that I was looking for. Overall this one was original enough have another soon.

On tap at Mr. Dunderbak’s without Nitro and put on a surger. Pour is black with a one finger tan head that lasts leaving great lacing. Aroma is of light roasted malt and coffee. Taste is the same as aroma but a little more pronounced. Medium creamy mouthfeel with a mild amount of bitterness and dry finish. Very good.

Draft at Oldsmar Tap House. Pours an oily black with a rich, cascading mocha head. Flavor is moderately sweet, with a mild roastiness and some light hops to balance it out. Palate is smooth and creamy. Definitely a nice quaffer for a hot Florida day.

On tap at Oldsmar Tap House. Poured a dark brown with tannish highlights. Big, foamy nitro head, and a ton of lacing. Subdued aroma, mostly various roasted malts and some chocolate. Big roasted coffee flavor, and malty as hell. Milky finish. Very smooth and drinkable, a perfect alternative to Guinness.

on nitro-pours a retaining light tan head that laces and black color. Aroma is dark malt-cocoa powder, peat, roasty, secondary acidic hops. Taste is dark malt-chocolate, peat, roasty, faint acidic hops. Minimum carbonation.

On tap at brewpub. Pours dark dark brown but coming up short of stout like jet black with tan head. The aroma is mild with roasted malts and burnt malts. The taste begins with highly roasted malts and a hint of malt astringency that helps create a bigger roasty malt punch. At the same point in time the burnt malts run through the flavor creating a tasty mix along with a slight malt sweetness. The beer ends roast, burnt and on the dry side. The burnt malts really linger into the after taste.

From tap at tasting : Pours dark brown with big long lasting offwhite creamy head. Nose of roasted coffee and chocolate. Not much on this one for taste, kinda bland. Very nice palate though, and goes down nicely.