Grumpy Troll Grumpy Stout

Brewed by Grumpy Troll Brewery, Restaurant and Pizzeria
Style: Stout
Mount Horeb, Wisconsin USA

Worst looking stout ever - clear, translucent amber brown with a thin grey/white head. Roasted malt and cocoa powder aroma along with some walnuts. Smells like a potent red. Chocolate dryness attempts to satisfy its claim as a stout. That’s pretty much as far as it gets. Dry and thin-bodied. Might be classified as a stout in a blind taste test, but I have serious reservations.

Beautiful looking beer. This beer does excite my tastebuds (mind you it was the last one I had, they were already pretty excited). A very good stout with no crappy aftertaste.

Very dark brown body, essentially black. Thin creamy off-white head. Malt, espresso, milk chocolate and baker’s cocoa in the aroma. Too light mouthfeel for the flavor! This is like a dry stout with well-done coffee-malt notes. A richer mouthfeel and this could compete with NG’s Coffee Stout.

Dark mohagany color with a lasting light tan head. Sweet roasted malt and light coffee aromas. Light coffee and dark chocolate flavors with caramel/toffee undetones and finish. A touch thin, but quite flavorful.

Dark, kind of purple in color. Smelled of coffee, and tasted of it too. A little caramel is present as well. An average stout.