Founders Breakfast Stout
Nice oily pour. No head at all, barely a ring of foam, but good stout color, tending more brown than black. Lovely ground coffee smell, also baking chocolate. Nice tastes of dark coffee, roastiness, bittersweet chocolate. A bit of coffee astringency in the aftertaste, some tannic qualities. Very full bodied, with a good roastiness and mild hop kick on the swallow. Faint carbonation. Some Baltic porter qualities -- I'm chasing mild date tastes, mild fig tastes. Satisfying. Coffee overwhelms any oatmeal stout qualities -- the bitterness takes away the creaminess, and it's barely sweet. Very good to sip, and one is enough, no matter how slow or fast you drink it, so I suggest making it last. Note: I'll edit this if it turns out future bottles have more carbonation.