McKenzie Chocolate Cherry Stout

Malvern location. Poured a dark but not completely opague brown body with a small brown head. The aroma is mostly dry, dark chocolate with some coffee notes. Flavor is mostly dark chocolate roast with some burnt notes and barely any cherry flavors until after the beer’s been sitting for a half hour or so. Even then, you really have to dig deep. Too thin.

First off, there are no hints of cherry or for that matter very much chocolate. Other than being misnamed, this should be their standard stout beer, by far and away better than their house stout beer. Nice and rich; the usual subtle hints of cocoa and dry flavors found in beers of this style. McKenzie’s beers mostly have a serious case of sourness in their batches. It may be the only beer that avoids this McKenzie’s curse

on tap-pours a diminishing light brown head and black color. Aroma is dark malt-chocolate. Taste is dark malt-chocolate , faint hops. After taste is of that dark malt-chocolate transitions finally to coffee. Occasional.

Sampled at the 2007 Brewers Plate; hearty sweet stout that’s roasted flavor dominated the cherry chocolate flavors. Poured rather flat....my first "Dude-less" beer from McKenzie’s.

Darker color with a sweet, cherry-chocolate aroma. Chewy-fruit flavor that lacks the "Stout flavor". Tastes a bit fake. An odd mix of flavors