Leisurely dry-bodied moderation lets lightly creamed dark-roasted Tanzanian coffee spread across cocoa-seeded black chocolate malting and mild toasted hop char. Modest oats-flaked burnt caramel sweetness lingers recessively beneath calm coffee setting.    

On tap at Craft House, soft-tongued dry Irish stout never fully develops, staying too tame and lacking depth. Easygoing coffee-oiled bittering fades quickly above hop-toasted char, dark-roasted chocolate malting and black-breaded caramel tease.      

Inventive Scottish stout brings mildly creamed peat-smoked dark chocolate malting and chewy cocoa-powdered caramel malting to clean well-watered crisping, finishing with a mocha-sweetened cedar burn (not unlike a moderate rauchbier). Light vanilla, molasses, coffee, cola nut and root beer illusions coddle silken mocha theme.   

On tap at Andy's Corner Bar, easygoing nitro-based dry stout retains mild eggshell-headed creaming and soft-toned mocha bittering. Delicately dark-roasted black patent malting and relegated toasted hop char pick up distant roasted nuttiness. Dark chocolate, black coffee and espresso notes linger. Despite commonplace comparisons, it's not nearly as flavorful as Guinness Extra Stout.

Classic Irish-styled dry stout (brewed in Massachusetts for Connecticut brewpub) spreads cacao nibs across dark-roasted black patent malting. Ancillary ice coffee, dried cocoa and tarry molasses illusions fade to ashen charcoal coarseness. Peat-smoked mocha snip done in by plastique acridity.

Smoothly crisp-watered dry Irish stout tosses smoky mocha malts and barley-roasted earthen peat at acrid hop char. Cocoa-powdered Baker's chocolate, toffee, cacao nibs, day-old coffee, Irish coffee, black tea and burgundy nuances struggle to properly surface. Stylistically murky.

Profoundly embittered dry Irish stout loads hop-charred roasted coffee and sappy Blackstrap molasses atop smoked barley malts. Black rye-breaded spine picks up Baker's chocolate bittering, acrid charcoal tarring and creamy vanilla bean affectations. Dark nuttiness abounds beneath heavy mocha concentration.