Ithaca Anniversary Stout

Brewed by Ithaca Beer Company
Style: Stout
Ithaca, New York USA

A dark clear brown stout with a thin moka head. In aroma, sweet caramel Nestle Quick, with light vanilla. In mouth, a sustained roasted coffee and chocolate, lots of roasted bitterness, medium bodied, a bit oily mouthfeel.

Strong beer, with mainly a burnt malt flavor that rounds out well enough but needs more spice or something to add variety. It is a boring beer, the taste lingers on, and my friends and I have trouble finishing this pitcher whenever it is on special. Plenty of things can nourish and warm you, but the trick is in how they do it, not just doing it!

Waaaay to much alcohol. This beer goes beyond the pleasant "warming" sensation and merely delivers burn. Plus, it's rather roasty and burnt tasting. Really not my thing, although I must concede that they didn't scrimp on malt. N.B. The bottle has a disturbing label of a hideously disfigured person. ;)

Black in colour, tan head which fades, but not too quickly. A nice roasted and burnt aroma. A medium-full bodied beer with spicy and burnt characteristics with a very full malt flavour. A bit stong, but a great overall beer!

Interesting - it starts off with sweet chocolate, but then turns all roasty - I liked that combo of flavors. The rest was run of the mill stout as far as it's medium body and dark brown/black color

Pours a nearly opaque deep dark mahogany with a 1.5 cm light tan head. Aroma is very funky--smells like a cow corn silo. Fruity smelling. I just cant get past that grainy smell. It tastes like that all the way through. There are some decent stout properties underneath, but this is just vile. I think its infected.

My bottle reads "Ithaca Finger Lakes Stout." This stout poured dark brown with red highlights and a thin off-white head. Light didn't penetrate this beer through my St. Bernardus glass but I imagine it would have done so if I poured this in a pint glass. Roasted malt and dry chocolate aroma. I wasn't expecting too much flavor considering how thin the body was but I was nicely surprised. This stout has layers of roasted malt, toast, and chocolate. At first this beer had a tangy quality but it reverted to sweetness over the course of the bottle. A hint of caramel finishes the flavor profile. Surprisingly good for such a light-colored, thin-bodied beer. I doubt this version is 7% ABV, however. Thanks Dan (jah noth)!

[draft at MacGregor’s - Henrietta, NY] Deep red pour with a creamy tan head. Nice lacing and red highlights. Nice and rich aroma of roasted malts mixed with coffee and the slightest hint of chocolate. Smooth and chocolaty taste at the beginning with a nice and roasty middle and a slightly bitter yet sweet finish. A little thin, but otherwise very good.