Fluffy bronze-headed stout pours like tar, retaining odorous smoky mocha must. Dark chocolate-malted espresso resonance perfectly counters moderate oatmeal intonation. Though frothy, creamy, and dry, sparkling water texture goes against traditional style. Yet given its enduring milkshake finish, this traditional Brit is quite grandiose.

Strong oatmeal waft enhances coffee-stained chocolate malted stout. Punctual mocha affluence strengthens lingering cherry wood backdrop, adding depth to roasted barley-oats finish. It’s got some kick, too! Brewery defunct: 2007.

Resilient mahogany-hued ruby-highlighted mocha-chalked stout matches thick nutty resonance to faded black chocolate creaminess and rich molasses residue. At finish, grain-roasted cereal oats belie oaken cedar-burnt coffee bittering.

Draught-styled in a can (as opposed to bottled version). Dry chocolate coating given watery lightness for under-whelming frothy-headed mid-range stout. ‘Smooth,’ as advertised, but too mild and tinny for its superior class. Oatmeal flavor indistinguishable and mocha too distant in the mix.

Despite expectant dark-toned gruffness, light-bodied stout stays defiantly easygoing and stylistically abstruse, dodging chocolate-y expectancy and finishing a bit thin. Buttery popcorn initiation quickly wiped away by black coffee serenity and burnt hickory ravine, turning drier as sour grape esters and arid cherry tartness rip through roasted hop setting where maple-walnut-cocoa illusions find solace.

Sticky lactic stout with tan-headed bronzed-mahogany hue compensates coffee-roasted maple mocha buttress with barley-roasted pale oats sugaring and sour-malted dried fruiting. A shade beneath stiff competition from comparative oatmeal stouts.

Creamy ruby-velvet stout exerts burnt coffee bitterness over roasted mocha-nut dryness and resinous black chocolate serenade. Piney Cascade hops graze raw molasses acridity, dried fruit hesitance, acrid vegetative saunter, and increasing charcoal-tarred harshness to espresso-cappuccino-cocoa midst, clearing the way for lactic milk chocolate-y eruption.

Frothy, creamy, brawny stout pits intriguing blend of burnt coffee sourness and dark chocolate bitterness against counteractive burnt caramel sweetness. Well-developed oatmeal influence overtakes mid-palate, joined succinctly by roasted malt suggestion that seals the deal. Tenaciously robust and quite filling, exceeding expectations on all counts.

Nowhere near as thick as ‘crude’ moniker suggests while inconsistent tan bubbles above mahogany body seem shabbily arranged. But obliging roasted coffee theme registers above sturdy milk chocolate-y lactose and mocha-molasses maltose. Bittersweet hazelnut-butternut-Brazil nut vim, smoked meat whim, and burnt wood stint drape toasted oats bottom.

Brown-sugared cocoa-buttered burnt caramel sweetness provides lusty opening salvo to paramount stylistic icon. Bitter coffee bean stead reinforces off-dry hop toasting. Maple-sapped oats and roasted chestnuts neatly justify smoked chocolate-mocha malting. Ubiquitous espresso undercurrent surges above dramatic barleywine intrigue. Full-bodied and frothy like a creamy eclair, yet never thick, heavy or sinewy; goes down like silk. In a class by itself.

Earthen reddish-hued dark ale with moderate raisin-date tartness and superb hop-spiced barley-roasted oats-dried caramel malting defers stylistic mocha expectancy. Mellow, relaxing, and refined without becoming too sweet or overbearingly strong.