Liberal Cup Tarbox Cream Stout

(presumably nitro) Persistent creamy brown head atop black body. Aroma is medium sweet, chocolate, some coffee, light roast. Taste is medium sweet, coffee, roast, light chocolate. Light coffee bitterness. Creamy light-medium body.

on nitro-pours a retaining tight foamy tan head and black color. Aroma is rich dark malt-chocolate. Taste is dry, rich dark malt-chocolate/molasses/coffee, some earthy hops. Not my taste but nicely done.

On tap at the brewpub:
Mild, creamy coffee sweetness dwelling in a lifeless body...Roasted malts become burnt and clash with the yeast end...Not enough time in secondary?...

Nitro half-pint at the brewpub on 4/14/06
Deep cocoa-milk chocolate brown body is covered by a nitrogenated tan head that is well-retained without lacing. Body is cloudy, opaque, unfiltered.
Aroma is oddly peppery, as if light DMS is mixed amongst the soggy, chocolate malts. Peanut skins and light vanilla notes are all the limpid aroma can garner, as the rancid, peppery vegetal note mixes with dry, unadulterated, acrid roast. Very weak overall.
Watery buttercream and weak coffee notes open up the flavor as damp, moldy and spicy DMS or autolysis notes (can’t figure out what the problem is amidst the roast and heavy wateriness) ruin any balance of flavor. Extremely lacking in flavor, with a heavily watery, nitrogenated texture, light burnt caramel and acrid roast notes seem odd against all this water. No hops, no alcohol, huge bubbled, low carbonation. More like a heavily watered down pot of coffee that has sat on a burner all day.

(Draught) Sampled at the brewpub in Hollowell, ME. Pours opaque with a thin, foamy almond head. The nose is mildly of roasted malt. The flavour thin and fairly mild with tones of coffee. Water, water everywhere - but nowhere for a decent brew!

Deep black color with a thin creamy light brown head. Mild aroma and flavor of coffee and roasted malt. Light and watery palate, soft carbonation.

Aroma:sweet chocolate aroma,coffe... Appearance:Dark,good cream brown head... Flavor:sweet coffe and chocolate,creamy...

Nitro pint at Brewpub. Pours a dark color with a creamy nitro tan head. Nose is lightly chocolate with roast malts and coffee. Taste is buttery cream, with some light coffee notes and roast malts here as well. Palate is creamy, smooth nitro.