Great Lakes Blackout Stout

Brewed by Great Lakes Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Cleveland, Ohio USA

I’d tried this in bars a few times whilst traveling and really liked it. 12oz bottle delivered from K’s mom - from Marino’s in toledo. pours dark black with a quick fading tan head and a little lacing. nice light aroma with the usual suspects: dark chocolate, coffee, malt, caramel. also smell olives. taste is charred mix of sweet malt and chocolate with some whiskey, vanilla and fig action. not as thick as some, but creamy and very drinkable. great stuff. K-8.5

12 oz. bottle poured into a snifter. Pours jet black with a thin light brown head that lasts throughout and leaves moderate lacing. The aroma is of sweet malt with a roasted character, hints of coffee and a brandy-like kick. The flavor is fantastic with an initial taste of roasted smokey malt, prunes, and brandy. This stout closes with a slightly bitter chocolaty, coffee finish. Medium to full bodied, soft carbonation. Extremely smooth and warming. This is a great Imperial Stout !

Great Lakes is putting out some kickass beer, with the Fitz porter being one of my favorites (plus it’s available in our region and reasonably priced), and I was happy to see a stout hit the shelves. Am not disappointed, black and oily, smokey, everything a good stout should be without being overbearing. Smooth, very drinkable, try this beer.

Bottle courtesy of either Gillard or poonpillager. Pours black with a one finger tan head that leaves good lacing. Aroma of roasted malt, coffee, and ash. Taste is the same as aroma with some sweet caramel malt. Medium full mouthfeel with a moderate amount of bitterness and smooth alcohol.

12oz bottle courtesy STFun. Pours out thick and black with just a hint of a head. Fresh crushed grains, chocolate malt, coffee and cocoa powder aroma. Taste is thick and chocolaty, coffee bitterness, lots of thick dark malt, and hints of dark fruit. Mmmm, this is nice and chewy, with just a little bit of heat from the alcohol. I like this a lot.

Clear dark brown with a frothy head. Aroma is dry blackened malts with dark cocoa. Smooth light/medium body. Nice flavors of black malts, cocoa, with some coffee bitterness to finish. Like their Fitz porter a bit better than this.

Pours pitch black with a thin, dense tan head which remains a wisp of foam throughout leaving good lacing. Huge sweet, roasted malt aroma with dark chocolate and coffee playing major roles. There is also some dark fruit and the balance makes the aroma top notch. Like the aroma, the taste is dominated by the roasted malts but without as much coffee as the aroma. There is also a much heavier sweetness in the taste which gives way to a slight hop bitterness in the finish. Mouthfeel is medium-bodied and creamy with a good carbonation. The finish is nice and sticky, coating the mouth. Drinkability is fairly good and this is a very good, though not great, stout in my book. Recommended.

Oak aged 22 ouncer from Ezra. Yum! Poured a silky blackish body with a small whitish head. Toasty brown vanilla body with a grainy, earthy hops body. Sticky and the real deal. Very clean and funkedified. Yumsers!