Ridgeway Espresso Grande

Pours a deep ruby hue. Small pale tan head. Sweet and sour flavors. Deep and roasty, coffee, tobacco, leather, ashen, dark toffee in the nose and palate. Quite drinkable and enjoyable, yet slightly thin and lacking in big flavors.

Nearly opaque dark brown pour has a thin, wispy light tan head. Intense smoky, dry roasted coffee bean aroma has some tobacco notes. Starts with a thin palate turning more tart throughout toward a dry roasty mocha finish. Coffee flavor is nice, but the sourness is unexpected and could have possibly been infected.

Cloudy dark brown with no head - aroma of tobacco, toffee and damp coffee grounds that have been sitting in the machine for a few days - quite sour to start - this makes way for a mild roastiness and a rather prominent and unpleasant ash flavor - burnt/stale coffee flavor makes its way in - this beer is very out of whack - as has been noted, it’s a stout, but it has sour ale qualities - mix old coffee in and you’ve got yourself one palate-confusing beer.

On tap...dark brown, thick, murky and motor-oil resembling body. No head and gentle, tingly carbonation. This is a very strange stout, as it is quite tart and sour - I’m not sure that it works very well, actually - it seems out of balance. Mild, pleasant coffee and cream aroma, not too meaty. More gentle that many cold weather beers, and in my opinion, lighter like a porter. OK.

Poured a very deep dark ruby color with a minimal off-white head. Big aroma of spent coffee grind, tobacco and some ash. The ash aroma grows a good bit as the beer warms. Flavor is both sour and roasted with a lightly bitter dry finish. I would have thought this to be pretty odd if i didn’t just have another "sour" English stout.