Lost Coast 8 Ball Stout

Brewed by Lost Coast Brewery & Cafe
Style: Sweet Stout
Eureka, California USA

(22 oz. bottle via trade with IrishBoy, thanks Richard!) Tasty...Pours very dark brown with four fingers of tan head. Rich iniviting aroma of sweet dark chocolate, coffee, molasses, roastiness and fruit. Mouthfeel smooth and lightly oily - a touch watery however. Just a few dabs of lacing here and there. Flavor of sweet dark chocolate and coffee roast along with a sweet fruitiness that almost becomes grapey as it warms. Molasses emerges as it warms. Light-medium bitterness on back end. Only a slight hint of grassiness in finish on a few tastes. A good one. I’ll bet on tap this would be a monster!

Black/amber with a light roasty aroma similar to many fine Stouts. Rich roasted quality with slight walnut, a bit dryer than some in the class. The mouth feel is nice, with lots of effervescence on the tongue. This beer is what I consider to be somewhat Porter like, but that’s just fine! I’ll but this everytime I see it!

Pours a dark brown with a dense tan head. Arome is medium sweet roasted malt and chocolate. The Flavor is mildly smoky and has a nice roasted malt base with light chocolate smoothness and just the right amount of bitterness. Finishes long, slightly acidic and smooth. Medium bodied, slick texture.

Stouts and I have a loving relationship, an understanding, a closeness where no words need be spoken. As we stare into each other’s eyes, chills run down the spine and forbidden thoughts run rampant through my mind. Her dark luscious curves. Her soft head. Her smooth body. As I raise her lips to mine, eyes half-lidded in anticipation, I can’t help but feel as if I am having a solicitous affair from which there is no return.
Thankfully, I have no desire to return, or scorn my love for her fine body.
my 8 Ball Stout from Lost Coast Brewing pours a rich dirty earth black with minor tinges of dark brown. A huge head of cappuccino colored foam scrambles for the top of my glass. After a few moments of grandstanding, she fades into a fluffy ring around my glass with a few little clouds floating on top. Swrils rile up her stormy head, leaving brown brussels lace trickling down the sides. Warm sweet malty raisins and bready notes greet my nose. Hints of oatmeal and milk mingle among the malts. I take an anticipatory quaff and it is a veritable luscious blend of sweet milk chocolate malts with a thick chewy body of bready oats and hints of dark raisins. A very full and soft body as is typical of a good oatmeal stout. The use of real oatmeal lends softness to the overall stout profile. Succulent and rich, her finish is a bit dry, building slowly to the finish. A tinge of lemon in the afterbite, a testament to the hops. Overall though, the oatmeal and warm roasted malts shine brightest in 8 Ball from Lost Coast.

Pours black as night. Dark fruity con cafe flavors. Very nice. Drinkably smooth and quite enjoyable. Great job!

Bottle. Pours a deep brown, very niice tan head that sticks around for a bit. Aroma is a very subtle blend of coffee and chocolate. Flavor is again a subtle blend of chocolate, roast coffee and malt, a touch of tobacco on the dry, smooth finish.

355 mL bottle. Pours opaque chestnut brown with surprisingly little head. Smells like someone dropped a shot of chocolate milk into a stout. Tastes like stout, but feels like milk. Mild roast, double-double coffee, and very smooth and creamy. Some fruitiness at the end. Quite good.

Good aroma of dark fruit and coffee. Flavor adds sweet orange chocolate malt to the mix, with a surprising citrus brightness, finishing with a healthy bitterness with lingering coffee. I never heard of this beer before today, but will look for it in the future.