Twains Blarney Cask 2009

Brewed by Twains Billiards and Tap
Style: Sweet Stout
Decatur, Georgia USA

Pours an opaque deep brown color with a nice fluffy brown head. Aroma is chocolate, roast, caramel, vanilla, some whiskey, oak, and some nice sweet cream. Flavor is malty, caramel, chocolate, toast, oak, vanilla, some sweet cream, lactose, and a nice sweet alcoholic whiskey finish.

Name: Blarney Cask
Date: March 17, 2009
Mode: Firkin
Source: Brewpub
Vintage: 2009
Appearance: black, cascading tan head, sheets of drippy lace
Aroma: sweet dark chocolate and whiskey aroma
Flavor: rich chocolate flavor, touch of roasted adds bitterness in the form of dark chocolate, light sweet whiskey, light oak adds balance to the sweetness from the whiskey, a bit of oaky dark fruit tartness in the 2nd snifter
Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 17/20
Rating: 4/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: ***+/4