Gritty McDuffs Black Fly Stout

Brewed by Gritty McDuffs
Style: Dry Stout
Portland, Maine USA

12 oz bottle, pours a dark black opaque color, minimal chocolate head with quick fading lacing on the sides. Aroma is rather sweet and fresh with prominent coffee and chocolate. Taste is sweet but not too overwhelming and a little dry. Palate is full and very well balanced. More like a sweet stout than a dry stout but overall very enjoyable.

12oz bottle. black pour with a huge bubbly tan head. roasty malt, chocolate and coffee aroma. nuts, roasted malts and cocoa in the taste. thin watery overly carbonated palate. dry slightly bitter finish. eh.

On tap at Bukowski Tavern, Boston MA, 28 September 2009. Very dark red/brown with creamy nitro head. All the faults of nitro are apparent. Aroma and flavour are sacrificed for texture and appearance. Accentuated by the very cold serving temperature. As a Guinness alternative it is conspicuously successful. As an interesting beer, it doesn’t do it for me.

Bottle from Total Wine. Pours soy-sauce black, thin, and with a coca colored head that disappears quicker than a presidential candidate. Nose is coffee, though very slightly, bitter malts, some off-the-wall funk, sulfur, and maybe some wood. Taste is very, very thin with notes of chocolate, earth, discarded cigarettes, diesel fuel, and malts. Slight bitterness. Struck me overall as very watery. Meh, kinda lucked out on this one.Not very good.

Bottle. Large light brown semi-fizzy head that mostly dissipated, mostly opaque body with some light coming through, very little carbonation, and a fair amount of lacing. The aroma consisted of hops, hints of chocolate and roasted malt. The flavor was burnt, roasted malt, semi-sweet, and lightly hoppy. A mostly smooth mouthfeel and a bit tingly. A medium bodied beer. A decent beer for the style, but it would have tasted better if it had a fuller taste to it IMO.

Bottle thanks to Reginaldo (BA)!
Pours very dark cola, near black, with a small foamy beige head, long-lasting. Nose has hints of chocolate but is predominately roasted malt, rather bitter. Flavor seems a little green and is equally bitter, roasted malt giving way to coffee, licorice, and chocolate. A little grainy. Sticky body, rather thin. Some nice elements, but it never really comes together.

This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a large sized head of foamy finely sized brown colored bubbles that were long lasting and left behind a opaque very softly carbonated black colored body. The nice aroma was dark malt and red apple. The mouth feel was weakly tingly at the start and at the finish. The yummy flavor contained notes of mild hops dark malt brown malt and chocolate. Delicious and one I would certainly buy again.