Gritty McDuffs Black Fly Stout

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

Bottle: poured a dark black in color with a thick chocolate colored head. The aroma was dry roasted coffee. The flavor was a tad weak, coffee, chocolate, roasted malts, and a bit watered down. Overall, a drinkable brew that falls into the middle of the pack.

This poured dark brown in color with a thick and fluffy beige head. The aromas were hard to come by as this was not very forthcoming. The palate was similarly stripped of flavor with a mild tartness but not much else.

3. 1. en gritty’s portland esta es la tercera del sampler de 7 que tome en el brewery, es un buen stout con su poco de hops

Pours a dark mahogany body with a massive column of mocha colored foam. The head is quickly fleeting, settling to a wispy film. Scant traces of spotty lacing mark the glass. The aroma shows dry, bitter cocoa, day old coffee, earthy hops, and a hint of vanilla. Flavors are dry and roasty, cocoa and burnt barley showing strongest, with acrid, earthy hops coming through on the finish. A weak and watery body does not do much to help this boring brew. This one is far from good.

Bottle from World of Beer, Clearwater, FL. Poured black color with medium to large brown frothy head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Medium roasted coffee aroma. Medium body with a smooth dry texture and flat carbonation. Medium flavor of roasted malt with a medium bittersweet finish of moderate duration. Drinkable brew.

pours a rich dark chocolate color. huge creamy head, short retention. nose consists of very light nose all i get is molasses. really a letdown, tastes of burnt coffee molasses and is very carbonated. one weak wussy stout

Huge dark beige, creamy head over nearly black beer. Very neutral nose, liquorice, molasses, smoked bark. Extremely dry taste, coffee grits, bark spices, charcoal, burnt. Background sweetness. Not bad in the matter of balance. Medium bodied at best, creamy texture. Pleasing taste, certainly for a light-meant stout.

For a stout this is pretty weak. It has a burnt malt scent and taste. This has quite a bit of carbonation in it for a stout. Not much flavor in it at all. Overall a pretty weak brew. Too bad, Gritty usually puts out some good stuff.