Mishawaka Jibber Jabber Java Stout

Brewed by Mishawaka Brewing Company
Style: Stout
Mishawaka, Indiana USA

You and me have a disease,
You affect me, you infect me,
Im afflicted, youre addicted,
You and me, you and me (Bad Religion – Infected)

Dark brown with a mammoth brown head, slowly fading and foamy. Aroma of chocolate, roasted malt and coffee. Taste of coffee, roasted malts, light chocolate and infection. Creamy palate with mild bitterness and enough infected sourness to go around. Perhaps it might not have been that bad it wasn’t infected, but I’m seeing a trend in the ratings here.

12 oz. bottle shared by Tmoney99. Pours a dark brown color with a huge foamy beige head that exploded out of the glass even with a careful pour. The aroma is dark roasted black coffee leaning toward being burnt and a hint of sourness (a sign of things to come). Upon taking the first drink I found myself wondering if this was a stout brewed with coffee or a coffee sour. There is nothing that would say stout here. Sour, watery, coffee; just bad. I would agree with others that have mentioned infection.

Bottle from Keg Liquor, IN. Poured clear dark brown color with a huge brown frothy head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate ground coffee,chocolate aroma. Medium body with a sour texture. Medium roasted coffee sour flavor with a medium sour finish of long duration. This beer was not good and I hope it was one bad bottle and not a pattern.

bottle - Infected. Of the nine bottled Mishawaka beers I have had, all different styles were and purchased at different times over a couple years, this makes at least the third that has been infected. Two others were debatable. At this point it is not just bad luck. They have a huge bottling problem that is apparently plagued them for years. Their draft beer may be good, but I cannot recommend anyone buy any of their bottles until this infection issue is fixed. This beer pours near black with almost no head. It smells like roast coffee beans. It takes like very watery, sour coffee. It is crap. Drain pour.

pours black - nice tan head- aroma is carmel, toffee and coffee - taste was coffee, hops, malt and bitter - not really too bad - but pretty bland/boring to me. Nothing offensive just not quite mixed right for me. a bit watery taste - but definate potential.

Pours a deep dark brown with a small brown head. Aroma is fresh, cold coffee and caramel. Flavor is bitter coffee and some weird sweetness. This bottle may be a little off, but not a terrible beer.

12 oz bottle and served in standard pint glass: deep brown with creamy head and good lace. The aroma has notes of iced mocha coffee, prune, grassy hops, burnt malts, and a hint of DMS. The taste is mostly malty with chocolate and toasted bread, very little hop or coffee character. Some lactic acid twang. The mouth feel is smooth and a tad underwhelming. Okay.

Bottle. Pours pretty dark, near black with a small tan head. I eagerly took a sniff, hoping for some fresh, roasty coffee but couldn’t really find any. Any coffee character the aroma has is pretty tame, I’ve encountered other stouts that don’t even use coffee with stronger hints. The nose seems pretty sweet, some caramel and chocolate is noted. A bit more coffee is detected in the flavor, but again, nothing very strong. A slightly dry chocolate hint is here, faint woody hops, coffee as an afterthought in the finish. Not bad, but pretty underwhelming.