Horseheads Sullivans Stout

Brewed by Horseheads Brewing, Inc.
Style: Stout
Horseheads, New York USA

Bottle. Pours near black with a beige head. Light roasty aroma with some dark chocolate. The flavor has roasted malts, dark chocolate and a berry like sweetness. Pretty good.

In short: A smooth and fruity stout marred by a rotten fruits flavour.
How: Bottle 22oz. Consumed fresh soon after purchase. Tasting session with Montreal crew.
The look: Near black body topped by a small tan head
In long: Nose is black berries, black pepper, roasted wood. Taste is extra-smooth, nothing aggressive here, even the mouthfeel is smooth. Flavours are mainly dark fruits (black berries mainly) and a little chocolate. All that would be fine but I kept getting a mould fruit sensation that bothered me. Problematic. Stack of bunch of them and you have a real pile of horseheads.

Thanks to Israel for sending this along to me. Bottle poured into a Sam Adams glass produced a finger worth of coco head that transformed to a thick lace. The color of the body was the obligatory black for a stout. The aroma is roasted malts and some fruity sweetness is also detected in here as well. The flavor is a good combination of roasted bitterness and sweet chocolate. The feel is typical for a session stout medium in my mouth and slight tingle on my tongue. This is a good stout I would not be ashamed if it was from my local brewer. Great drinkability and very sessionable

My Bottom Line:
Blackberry fruitiness and roasted malts are supported by bready cereal sweetness in this very drinkable, run-of-the-mill Stout.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A ring of foam surrounds the dark brown ebony.
-The roasted malts offered some bitterness too.
-The body was healthy, fed with fair residual sugars and prickly carbonation.
-Hops could have been more prominent throughout.

Bottle.

Bottle. Pours a brown body with a tan head. Roasty coffee, bitter chocolate. Light vanilla. Light oily body with no etoh. Roasted malt with a light coffee finish.

Growler at John’s: Poured a dark black color with a chocolate colored head. The aroma was roasted malts and caramel. The flavor was smooth, roasted chocolate malts. Overall, a decent brew.

En fût. Verre de dégustation directement à la brasserie. Arôme: Odeur de céréales grillées. Apparence: La couleur est opaque. Présence d’un mince col beige mousseux et d’une fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Léger goût de café avec une pointe chocolatée. Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture légèrement crémeuse. Moyenne effervescence en bouche. Légère présence de café en arrière goût. (Rating #2023)

Sample from a bomber @ DLD. Pours black with a small beige head. The aroma has some roasted malt, but it is overtaken by vegetables and freshly opened band-aids. The flavor has mild roasted malt, dust, bitterness that comes from ??, and stale coffee. This is thin, watery, and just not very good. This was the first beer I sampled at DLD. I am happy things got better from there.