McKenzie Black Lab Stout

Brewed by McKenzie Brew House
Style: Sweet Stout
Glen Mills, Pennsylvania USA

Draft at the brewpub, July 2006. A black beer with a brown shine under a brown head. The aroma is sweet malty with strong notes of chocolate, and a light roastd note. The flavor is sweet roasted and very malty with notes of chocolate, leading to a very dry roasted end. A bit thin for the style, but OK.

Clear red-black body, with beige head. Aroma is medium sweet,chocolate, some roasty. Taste is medium sweet, chocolate, caramel, light roasty. Light-medium body.

(Draught) Pours a dark brown body with a small off-white head. Aroma of roasted malt and sweet chocolate. Falvor of chocolate, coffee, and licorice.

On tap at the brew pub. Poured a dark black color with with a small off white head. Roasty and chocolate aromas and tastes. Lightly bitter. Smooth body and easy to drink.

on tap-pours a retaining creamy tan head and black color. Aroma is faint dark malt-chocolate/coffee/licorice, roasty. Taste is dark malt-chocolate/coffee/licorice, roasty, secondary hops bite. OK carbonation. Nice, not my style.

Pours blackish with medium, creamy white head. Aroma of malt, chocoff, and some cabernet. Tastes malty, with big chocoff, slight almonds, and a medium, very smooth roasty finish. A very nice stout.

Sample at the brewpub. Black velvet, with a smallish lasting chocolate head. Light but distinct chocolate-espresso nose. Smooth, grapy-pruney flavors, full but not thick body, very light bitterness to finish, virtually no carbonation. Best of the samples I had.

Poured a dark brown, with some red tints around the edges, with a small, quickly diminishing light tan head that left very light lacing on the glass. Aroma of chocolate fudge, roast and toffee, not all that strong. Taste of roast and chocolate, with a light hoppiness. Overly carbonated mouthfeel.