Mill Street Cobblestone Stout

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

Very dark brown with a nitrogen cascade & light brown head. Espresso-like aroma with smokey undertones. Rounded body is thick and creamy. Flavours are coffeeish, chocolatey, slightly nutty. Sweetish finish. Dessert-like and satisfying.

Objectively speaking: A simple and surprisingly hoppy session stout.
I like: Pleasant chocolatey roastiness. Dry flavour profile growing a certain hazelnut skin tang. Milky, gently lactic acidity yet feeling clean all along.
I dislike: Highly carbonated for a stout, giving it a light metallic touch. Not particularly complex nor memorable.

on-tap at the new brewpub. A bit of malt aroma, tad of roast. Some sweetness, roast barley. Late kick of coffee and chocolate in mild dose. Kind of a mild Guiness, and no where near the thickness or strength of taste of the American stout I am so used to and fond of. Watery.

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 @ C’est What?
Dark brown, fine creamy – neat head. Good contrast.
Dry, roasted grains up front, slightly medicinal finish but this could be by product of dark roasting also found in some coffees.
Slightly acidic front behind id dry, burnt roasted coffee like. Softer creamy blanket placed around. Finish more like start acidic. To me it felt as this stout was not sure what it wants to be, dry, creamy, acidic?

St. Patrick’s Day Keg. Black body with a decent creamy head. Aroma is dry toasty cocoa with malt notes. Hint of something... unsettling seems to go away after the initial sniff. Flavour is much drier than I expected, lots of dry bitter cocoa and mildly roasty malt. Palate is smooth and a lot lighter than I like my stouts, though I have to admit it probably made it easier to knock back many glasses of it. I expect its more full and rounded on the nitro gas. Servicable stout, but not particularly to my tastes. Happy Whacking... I mean St. Patrick’s Day!<P> We’ll break their backs
Gouge out their eyes
Their evil hearts we’ll pulverize!

Nitro at the brewpub. pours a nice deep woody dark brown- near black with a nice beige creamy nitro head. Aroma is nutty woodsy, earth, nutty chocolate and some green minty hops. Flavor is a bit weak btu still has good nutty chooclate some slight roast, earth and green citrus and earthy hops with a dry finish. Pretty good for a dry stout.

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.