Smells strongly of sweet stonefruit. Flavor is more malty, a little one-dimensional, but pleasant enough to drink. Finish is a bit yeasty and astringent.
Medium-thin brown porter with a dry touch of toffee and roasted barley flavor. A hint of that grassy-sour funk typical of some British dark beers. Easy drinking, nutty, and flavorful.
Nut and caramel aroma. On the palate, lots of toffee and nut flavors. Finish is very nutty. Flavors aren't really that deep but it does deliver as a nut brown ale.
A really smooth, almost sweet roasted malt smell. Roasted malts, vanilla, and oatmeal on the palate with a perfect amount of bittering hops to make sure there's no overpowering malt funk. Finish has a great hit of vanilla and oatmeal. A lot of stouts focus on the flavor on the palate and are utterly unremarkable on the finish, one of this beer's strengths is how solidly it finishes. Absolutely delicious, for sure the benchmark.
If chocolate milk were beer, it would taste like this. This stout puts the chocolate in chocolate stout. I happen to like chocolate, so that's A-OK, but know what you're getting into... there's not much "stout" to it.
Just like a strong whiff of Swiss Miss, all cocoa and milk powder on top of a slightly sour, thin stout. Drinkable, but kind of tacked on in the way some of Southern Tier's more over-the-top beers are.
Smells strongly of the chocolate powder dust that kicks up after pouring a packet into a mug. Interesting taste mix between chocolate and malts which results in a sort of banana-y-malt. Tastes sweet but without being tacky, syrupy, or cloying, which I appreciate.