Great Lakes Blackout Stout

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

Nice beer. Color is pitch black. Some roasted malt and alcohol on aroma. Taste is smooth malts and some hops. Very easy to drink and great flavor.

pours black with a solid one finger brown head. aroma is roasted malt and hops with bitter dark chocolate and coffee. has a medium to full body with good lacing and good carbonation for a stout. flavor is the same as aroma but stronger with a little of the 9% abv. descent on the nose but potent in the flavor and on the palate. has a little bite from the carbonation and the coffee lingers a while on the tongue. a pretty good impy stout.

Big thanks to DrBayern for this gem! Shared with pint_sized - Black pour with a nice medium brown head in a snifter. Smell was a creamy chocolately coffee roast with almost a hint of peanut buttery creaminess...(maybe I’m just crazy) Such a nice, smooth roasty chocolate flavor, with a light but noticeable and pleasant alcohol flavor to it. A great mouthfeel and perfect carbonation level let it go down like smooth chocolate. Really a great beer, with an amazingly smooth light lingering aftertaste of fine bittersweet dark chocolate. A must try!

Thanks to Dankman for the 12 oz bottle. Wonderful coffee aroma. dark pour beautiful head and lacing. malts & coffee upfont. finish’s with a subtle chocolate flavor. Very Nice well balanced and complex

Heaven on Earth . Dark Black and smooth . Might be the best ive tried so far . you know the Drill . chocolate and coffe !

Huge thanks to Degarth for giving me this 12oz bottle sent south by crizay. Pours dark brown with a quarter inch mocha head. It has a Porter like aroma with burnt to roasted maltiness along with hints of alcohol and sweet caramelized malts. The taste has a big burnt maltiness up front that hits hard along with dark chocolate. The flavor becomes increasingly sweet toward midway with hints of caramel, toffee and sweet malts. Toward the finish the burnt malts return and carry the experience into the after taste. Solid tasting Imperial Stout.

12oz with about 9months on it, man this stuff is great, no alcohol presence tons of roasted malts and great bitter finish which leaves me exhaling a nice coffee dark chocolate taste. so good.

I finally tried it and I was not let down. It pours black as night, thin head, I smell chocolate but I taste dark coffee and, it finishes just slightly bitter. This beer kicks ass.