Rockyard Lightning Strike Stout

12 oz. btl. light smells of roast and coffee. Initial taste is exactly like a tootsie roll, nice chocolate and burnt toffee thing going on. Unfortunately, it’s quickly gone with a watery, thin finish, and somehow the flavor got less pronounced and flatter as it warmed. OK - they could do a lot better with some tinkering on this one.

On tap @ Rockyard poured a clear dark brown with a small quickly disapating tan head. Aromas of bitter chocolate, coffee, roasted malt and a hint of smoke with a smooth slightly dry lingering bitter finish.

GABF. Some roastiness comes through in the aromas, but it was difficult to pick up. Not much in the way of flavor either. Some chocolate maybe. OK

Had this beer at GABF on 10/2/1999. Aroma is a very faint roasted scent. Color is black with almost no carbonation and head. Taste is a very faint roasted taste that comes across bland and finishes flat. This is a weak and flavorless Stout.

Draft brewery-A pitch black body with no carbaonation Very very small aroma of roasted malt. Taste of malt, coffee, and chocolate. The body was light and the beer was flat.

on tap-pours a thin tan head and black color. Aroma is coffee, hops bitterness. Taste is coffee, roasty, hops bitterness. Nice, OK carbonation. More like a porter. Occasional.

tap. black pour. thin tan head. hippy coffee aroma. some sweet chocolate, semi-creamy mouthful of coffee, grains burnt malts. a little acidic. average at best.

I would not have called this a sweet stout, kind of dry and roasty, overly acidic and unbalanced. Burnt coffee flavors, some milk chocolate, and a sugary sweet hit from what I can only assume is a milk sugar sweetener. Bitter and hard to swallow.