Crosstown? They can put together a good beer. Doughnuts? I like doughnuts! Stouts? You know I love stouts. So, there shouldn't be anything bad about this experience, right? Well, it was only after I brought this home and thought about it for a while that I suddenly became leery about whether or not this was a coffee stout. I do not like coffee in my beer. It doesn't say coffee on the front, but I guess it might be implied with the doughnuts and breakfast stouts normally have a heavy coffee flavor to them. There is no descriptor on the can telling me one way the other, so I'm going in blind. I'm afraid I've made a bad choice.
The beer pours the requisite dark brown to black and sports a tan head. The head is very reluctant come out to the point that I glanced at the can to see if it was aged in a barrel at all. It does not appear that it falls into that category, so I'm not really sure why it doesn't produce any head. The aroma is strong with coffee, and my fears have been confirmed. This is going to be a very short review, and this isn't going to go well. It's really no fault of the brewery, I guess. I blame myself.First sip and yes, it's coffee. It has some chocolate backing up the coffee, but it's not nearly enough to overwhelm the coffee and make this a review that I wouldn't bother to try a chug. I already know I don't like this beer, and I'm not going to be drinking any more of it. That's just the way it goes sometimes, and I hope the next beer I have will not have the same problem.
Bottom Line: Stop putting coffee in beer.
0.25/5