Great Lakes Blackout Stout
On tap at the brewery last night into a tulip glass. A Black body (as you would expect and true to style) with a minimal dark brown but nice and frothy head but it dissipates within a minute to a trace circle around the top of the glass. Great look, especially in the tulip glass at the brewery. S Dark, dark malt and chocolate smells. Very good and inviting. Cannot be improved. T The deep dark malt and chocolate smells carry right over into the taste with a kick of warm alcohol in the middle taste. Thin aftertaste which is not always the case for an RIS. M Physically watery wet but the big tastes, alcohol make this a thick, full, wonderful beer and it avoids being any kind of chunky. D A little bit better than average just because of the interesting tastes but this is a dessert beer, only one or at max two to be intended to be drank in a session. Notes: I had "rated" this in the past and I do not think that I was ready for it then. Now I was ready to appreciate its greatness and it is that....great.