Iron Hill Irish Dry Stout

On tap at Iron Hill in Media, PA (05/26/09). Black in color with a good sized cream colored head. Aroma is of vinegar, roasted malts, rye bread and coffee. Taste is of vinegar, coffee, light chocolate and toasted nuts. Smooth and dry.

Draft at North Wales. In Nitro. Black color with an off-white head. Aroma of roasted malts, coffee, and a bit of chocolate. Flavor of coffee, and roasted malts. Creamy but light body.

Draft at Newark location. Black in color, good cascading head. Aroma of some light roasted malts. Texture is soooooo light. Not watery just light. Taste is light roasted malts, just a vanilla touch. Overall not bad...the texture was to light for my liking.

Nitrogen at Phoenixville BrewPub: Aroma of chocolate, malts, roasting, light bitter coffee, and some burnt coffee and chocolate. Poured very dark brown in color with a large, creamy, dense, nitrogen, tan head that lasted throughout. Opaque. Excellent lacing. Flavor was light to medium bitter and lightly sweet. Tastes of bitter chocolate, bitter coffee, espresso, burnt malts, and slight cream. Light to medium body. Thin, creamy, dry, texture. Nitrogen carbonation. Burnt coffee and burnt chocolate finish.

Nitro at p-ville. Pours a nice deep grayish black with a gray-tan head and good lace. Aroma is nutty, dry toasted malts, light coffee and roast malts- and some acrid burnt malts going on. Flavor is roasted malts, black patent, light sweetness up front, drys out in the end, body is a bit bigger than Guinness, but at 3.9% it is really quite nice. Very well made dry stout.

Just like Guinness, only a little more roasted - nice touch. Like the other Guinness inspired stouts, tasty even if it is not St. Paddy’s Day.

On draft in Newark. AKA "Irish Dry Stout". Pour has a creamy tan head. (I don’t know the color... I had it in their mug). Aroma is of a faint roasted character. Taste is of mild roasted chocolate malts and maybe a little bitterness with hops. Not too much to it. Body was a little thin. ehh.

On nitro at the North Wales location. Pours a very dark amber with a medium sized creamy beige head. A ton of lacing. Aroma of roasted malt, nuts and wood. Taste of dry roasted malt, wood and hints of nuts. Average.