Lost Coast 8 Ball Stout

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

Twist off cap: pours rather dark (even for a stout) with thin fading head that coats the glass very well. No question a well made beer. Aroma of rich brown sugar yet not over the top with sweetness. Texture feels the mouth very evenly with a nice smooth finish. A keeper!!

Pretty average oatmeal stout. Roasty, bitter oats flavor, chocolately and smooth, slightly lactic. I didn’t realize I hadn’t rated this, so this rating is at the very last sip of the glass. Whoops.

Opaque black colour with a nice tan head. Toffee aroma. Silky, bitter mouthfeel. Very coffee flavour- what coffee wants to be in its most fantastic dreams. Best warm.

Bottle purchased at Premier Gourmet in Buffalo. Pours deep black with a tan head and spotty lacing. Aroma of dark roasted malt and mild roast coffee. Mouthfeel is medium, but silky smooth. Flavor of coffee, bakers chocolate, roast, and a hint of dark dried fruit. A pleasant bitter finish, that is slightly dry and ashy. This may be a sweet stout, but I find some dry stout characteristics in this one. This totally solid and very easy to drink. Not as good as Bells Kzoo stout, but it comes close. I would definitely buy this again.

Pours a dark black. Chocolate/coffee aroma. Unsuprisingly tastes of chocolate and coffee, with hints of caramel and nuts. Smooth with a medium mouthfeel. Small amount of hops (not much). I nice smooth stout that can really hit the spot.

My favorite beer so far, I’m a newbie beer connoisseur but damn if this beer isn’t wonderful. Coffee colored head, expresso, dark chocolate, nutty flavor. I absolutley love this beer. My liquor store carries lost coast brews, in an area where 90 percent of the people think Natural Light is the holy grail of beer. I feel very lucky for that.

Thin head, with thin lacing. Aroma very chocolatly. Hops come in at the end. I want some more.

22oz bottle. Thin coffee ice cream-colored head. Viscous and slippery thin lacing, small bubbles. A nose full of Betty Crocker brownies with semisweet chocolate chips. Like grade school cafeteria brownies. Oh, the memories of the lunch line ladies, with the net-encased gray hair and not-entirely-powdered mustaches nested above jiggling jowls, frowning disapproval as I reach for a third brownie from the aluminum foil pan. All except for sweet MayAnne, who would point out the brownie square with the most chips...but I digress. Downtake burns just slightly, unexpected but nicely. A big harrumph of chocolate, and here some toasted malt nutty tones come through. Chocolate loses the battle to the hops at the finish however, with a huge dropoff in flavor at the end that is almost off-putting. Kind of like when you bite into that wonderful chocolate-chip fudge brownie for the first three bites, only to find that where you thought there was one more bite remaining, there is none, and only a faint memory of what once was as you lick the brownie crumbs from the plate. On top of that, Lucy the lunchlady is smoking a joint in the next room, just to confuse your palate. Good fizzy bits at the very end though.