Mill Street Cobblestone Stout

Brewed by Mill St. Brewery
Style: Dry Stout
Toronto, Canada

On tap at Victory Cafe. Looked just like Guiness, but was much more enjoyable than a pint of Guinness. Nice tastes of smokiness, coffee and dark chocolate.

Draught @ Mill Street Brewpub: Came a deep black with red hues, nice and thick nitro cream-coloured head on top. Aroma is rich in smoky, roasted malts with a hint of coffee. Flavour is all roast, very dry, and a presence of walnuts and chocolate. It’s quite a nice dry stout, and nothing at all resembling a sweet stout. That classification needs to be fixed asap. All told a pleasant stout, reminiscent to me of the Casino Monte Carlo’s version in Las Vegas.

Draught at the Mill Street Brewpub, shared with Mr. VeloVampire - wow, this really looks like a perfectly poured pint of Guiness, with that incredibly well-defined nitro head on top. It’s quite dark, but not black, with a number of ruby highlights to be found. Aroma is quite smoky, just bordering on territory similar to a rauchbier. But rauchbier this is not. Flavour is quite nicely roasty and again, smoky on top, but then thins out almost immediately leaving much to be desired. Much too watery. Very dry in the finish, but way too thin in body. This needs a lot more flavour filling out the middle and finish. If it did that, it would be a fantastic and interesting stout, because the inital flavours are very nice. As it stands however, it is much too watery and far from expectations, especially coming from this brewery. I don’t think I would even call this decent; there are better stouts available.

On tap at the Mill Street Brewpub, shared a romantic half pint with my new friend, StompBrockmore. Came basically looking like Guinness, which both excited me and repulsed me (looks beautiful, tastes....well, not so much). I was not repulsed by the aroma though, which came through as smoky and roasty, even through the thick nitro head. Taste was immediately big smoke, coffee, and some dark chocolate, and then, with a snap of the fingers, it’s done. Dry, dry finish, with some roastiness lingering in the back of the throat. Had again last night at The Magpie - seems fuller-bodied now, not as watery as Dry Stouts can often seem. A very nice pint, and one I can drink lots of owing to the lower ABV. Good show! Also nice to see some of Mill Street’s non-standard offerings making out of the brewpub and into other bars around town.

deep dark brown stout some head, decent toasty choc malt nose, some hops. not as much sticky thickness as i want in a good stout but not bad

Draught at the Mill Street Brewpub. Pours a very dark brown with a lovely average size creamy tan head. Nice roasty aroma with some coffee and chocolate. Flavour of roasted malt and coffee with some light hops in the finish. Medium bodied, creamy mouthfeel. Well done, this is quite enjoyable and I could easily down several of these.

Draught. At the Mill Street Brewpub. Opaque ruby-brown with a lovely speckled creamy tan head. Dry roast coffee bean aroma, slightly sour lactic notes, herbal hops. Mellow slightly sour roast coffee/nut taste, some acidity in the medium finish, seems a bit milky - simple. Slick, medium-thick body, like a watered-down milkshake, acidic and only mildly carbonated mouthfeel, no aftertaste - pretty drinkable stout, if not exactly spectacular - like all their on-tap beers seem, a session brew for true.

On tap at the brewpub. Creamy nitro black with a lot of red hues, thick white head, looks the part! Nice coffee roast aroma - not at all like the coffee porter, which I find smells like cold coffee itself, this emphasized the roast, and was a nice aroma considered it was nitro (I’m assuming nitro anyway). Good taste - lots of coffee roast, but also a silky milk chocolate malt background as well. Body is very creamy but a tad light. Great session stout.