Tyranena Pretty Damn Black Stout

Brewed by Tyranena Brewing
Style: Stout
Lake Mills, Wisconsin USA

Black color with a tan head that looks like the inside of a 3 musketeer bar. Aromas of dark malt, berries, dark fruit, dark chocolate and dark roasted nuts. The flavors match with the aromas. This has been aged a year and has mellowed nicely.

Nice to have Rob un-retire this special beer. On draught at the brewery’s taproom only, pours an opaque dark brown brew with a creamy off-white head that slowly dissipates to a lumpy light tan ring and film top. Aroma of toasted dark malt, coffee, a touch of molasses and some flowery hops. Taste is medium bodied, light carbonation with roasted dark malt, coffee, a touch of mild chocolate and some flowery hops. Finish is mildly bitter with a dark malt and mild coffee aftertaste that quickly disappears after the finish. Not over the top coffee flavor but a nice balanced flavored dry stout with coffee.

2003 Vintage: Many thanks to Skyview for hauling this gem back for us! Growler. Black color with a thin head. Good aroma of heavily roasted coffee and dark chocolate. Holy crap... the roasted malts absolutely dominate the flavor. Coffee and a bit of lactose sweetness, but overall this is like chewing on a spoonful of roasted barley. Yum.

Black. Dry grain flavor and aroma. Some coffee and chocolate. Bitter, fairly smooth.

Pours to a pitch black body with a thin yellow beige head. The flavor has a chocolate malt with a very nice nutty roast. Black malt aroma with a light oatmeal. The palate is slick and roasted. A nice dryness pervades. I was able to drink this beer really quickly.

Many thanks to skyview for sharing. Black head with roasted coffee and faint dark chocolate malts. Massive roasted malt and coffee in the flavor with a light sweet finish. Very nice finish.

Brown with a thin dissipating tan head. Aroma of coffee, chocolate and roasted malts. Taste of roasted malts, coffee, chocolate, molasses. Semi-sweet and malty with a dry finish. Quality brew from Tyranena that I hope they put into bottles sometime soon.

Now unretired. On tap at tasting room. Aroma dominated by fresh ,solid roastedness, fragrant like fresh ground coffee beans,yum, exactly what you want in your dry stouts, porters etc. Taste is pure roasted malt and barley,texture is smooth ,with a little bit of a carbonic bite in the finish. This bite ,along with the bitterness of the roastedness really drys it out, leaving a little bitterness on the palate and an impression of thinness. The roasted taste is as good as I’ve tasted in this style, American or Irish, mouthfeel,well I still say it should have been nitroed.