Mendocino Black Hawk Stout

Brewed by Mendocino Brewing Company
Style: Dry Stout
Hopland, California USA

12 oz bottle courtesy of the Binnys Singles Rack (Orland Park, IL). Pours a blackish hue with red around the edges, largely opaque with decent light brown head that sticks around and laces fairly. Aromas are medium, roasted malts and barley, light chocolate and coffee with perhaps a faint note of licorice. Initial is very watery body, light and underflavored. I pick up notes of roast on the backend and aftertaste, but fairly empty up front. The roast has some light sweetness to compliment it, more coffee and roast though severly through balance off kilter. Finish touches with some bittersweet chocolate, coffee, and roast, improving over the body but still fairly empty. Overall, a dissappointing beer in many aspects.

Bottle thanks to BeerHawk. Dark black with red hints and a light tan foam with spotty lacing. Aroma is chocolate and lots of roasted barley. Taste is more big roast, bitter, chocolate, some licorice and a grassy bitter roasted malt finish.

(bottle). Pours a black color. Medium size tan colored head. Moderate lacing. has a light coffee aroma, and a roasted coffee taste. Finish is slightly metallic. Soft carbonation.

i like the description from the brew company on this one it says just about everything i would say just when and how i would say it. it is fairly good and would be welcome to a newcomer (to stout) as well as an accomplished stoutist. beer on !

The aroma is floral hops, coffee, and dark bread. Black pour with a light head and no lace. Coffee and hops come thru in the finish. It is fairly light-bodied for a stout, but still flavorful. This is a decent brew.

12 oz bottle from a Winter Beer 10 Pack purchased at World Market for me by my wife. Pour is black, slight ruby with a one inch khaki head that falls fast with some lacing. Aroma of milky coffee roasted malt, some slight pine bitter hoppiness. There is also bit of a vegetable (green pepper) smell which doesn’t seem quite right. Its mild, but does detract. Taste is initially burnt roast coffee malt, followed by a crisp pine dry finish. Palate is medium to thin, moderately carbonated and dry as mentioned. This one was quite crisp and refreshing.

Pours dark brown/black, roasted malts, little coffee, little dark chocolate, little oats, slight hops.

Opaque with burnt meringue head that lasted as just a ring. Sweet, syrupy nose with hints of molasses. Smooth entry with soft palate and long-lasting bitterness and roastiness. Mildly carbonated with some cola characteristics. Where are the oysters when you need them?