Samuel Smiths Extra Stout

Brewed by Samuel Smith
Style: Dry Stout
Tadcaster, England

A brown beer with a red shine under a thick light brown head. The aroma is sweet roasted combined with notes of caramel. The flavor is sweet malty with a strong roasted character, and the mouthfeel is very smooth. Nice.

Pint in the Waterguard, Cardiff. Strong chocolate, coffee alcoholic aroma. Sinister black in colour with a smooth off white head.Chocolate, coffee flavour, little earthy but very good.

drank it at a pub in london. Not bad at all. Perhaps a little too sweet for me personally but still an admirable stout.

Nitro, Three Goat’s Heads, Oxford. Ruby black, dense layer of tan that leaves a nice sticky layer all the way down the glass. Strong dry cocoa aroma, a bit of coffee, some herbal hops. Initially a dark chocolate flavor, moves toward a smokey dry roast, chalky finish. I liked my first few sips of this quite bit, but it gets a bit clumsy after awhile. Half was enough.

A solid Stout, though you can get better beer’s from Samuel Smith’s. A very strong flavor and color.

draught at Kings Arms, York: aroma of coffee, and bit of malt. pours black with big creamy nitro head. flavor is mostly coffee, with some toastiness. medium-heavy palate. okay brew. nicest of the sams on tap at kings arms

Draught at the Cock, London. Aside from dominant flavors of old coffee, I can hardly distinguish this from Guiness...characteristic of a stout made with large amounts of malt and neglible hops. The nitro-kegged creamy head is just too cloying and phony to be enjoyable. The mouthfeel is rather abrasive and dry - swallowing this stuff is like inhaling stout-soaked old coffee grinds and ashes. I think, though, that all these complaints stem from the fact that the stuff is just too damn cold. If it were warmed a bit it would probably show through more of the less intolerable flavors it likely includes.

(Draught at Princess Louise, Holborn, London, 30 July) Colour is pitch black with a firm beige head. Nose is roasted with chocolate, mocha, coffe (with milk), chocolate mousse. Taste is roasted with chocolate, cocoa and coffee. Medium body and a balanced dry bitterness in the finish. Really well made stout with a nice chocolate twist to it.