Kern River Class V Stout

Brewed by Kern River Brewing
Style: Sweet Stout
Kernville, California USA

Thanks to odeed! Pours with near imperial darkness. Aroma is of sweet malts, roast, and chocolate. Flavor has strong notes of chocolate, sweet malts, and coffee. Mouthfeel is smooth and creamy. Overall, this is a very pleasant sweet stout.

Shared by turdferguson. Pours a dark black allowing some light with a one finger creamy mocha head. The nose is rich, shows molasses, chocolate, coffee, sweet on the aroma, warming alcohol, fruity in a way. The flavor is rich, nice and warming, chocolate, coffee roast, fruity, nice bitter grain to sweet balance. Warming smooth mouthfeel with a roasty bitter finish.

An interesting stout. Nose is sweet and creamy. Notes of vanilla, cocoa, nuttiness, mild generic hops. Flavor is hard to figure out. To me, this beer is a little out of whack yet somehow it still tastes pretty good. It seems way to Sweet when I first sip it yet after I swallow I enjoy the flavor in my mouth. That last sentence sounds a little nuts, but it’s true. Fuckin a.

Pleasantly surprised by this one. Nice tan head that leaves some lacing against a rich but not super thick black body. Chocolate and light roast in the nose. This leads into a smooth, deceptively easy to drink imperial stout. Lots of soft chocolate, light roast, smooth coffee notes in the taste. Oats help to give this a luscious body. Not very complex, but very nice. I want to see more imperial stouts use some oats to soften the body like you see here. Light hop presence. All in all, nicely done. Not amazing, but very pleasant and definitely something I would drink again.

22oz bottle. Almost pitch black, just a little brown showing on the edges with a chocolate head. More chocolate in the nose, some light roasted malt as well. Nice and smooth, more chocolate, a slight bitterness as well, some coffee too. Very nice stout.

Bottle from Odeed, thanks. Dark brown with a fizzy tan head. Roasted coffee aroma and taste with milk chocolate notes and a citric finish. Pretty good.

Black with a thin tan head. Aroma is a chocolate roastiness, with caramel, toffee, nutty. Taste is a mild roastiness, with the nuttiness showing again, chocolate, light caramel.

4-5 oz sample on tap at the brewpub in early January. Aroma has anise, chocolate, hints of oatmeal, and some booziness. It’s also not overly assertive. Very mildly transparent dark dark mahogany body with a frothy light tan head and good lacing present. Sweet, chocolatey start. Becomes a little more anise-like with some oatmeal flavors in the middle. Finishes with a scant roastiness and some light ethanol. A bit too hot for me.