Snake Drive Stout
Selin's Grove Brewing Company

On tap at Selin’s Grove Brewing in Selinsgrove, PA.

This one pours a fairly dark black color, with a small foamy head and lots of lacing.

This smells like roasted malt, black bread, smoke, pine, herbs, and chocolate.

This is really quite good - too often this style just tastes like roasty water. It’s full in flavor, with a pleasant roasty character, some creamy flavors, a touch of smoke, some caramel and nuttiness, and a bit of an herbal bitterness.

This is really creamy and surprisingly thick, with a fantastic level of drinkability.

This is easily one of the better dry Irish stouts you can get made in America. It’s a treat.

I had this on draught at the brewery. 16 oz. pour served in a pint glass. It pours a dark walnut color with a foamy, milk-white head and lacing with excellent retention. At first, I thought it was served on nitro given its appearance. The smell features roasted malt, coffee, bakers chocolate, and whiffs of peat and tobacco smoke. The taste really follows the nose with a roasty malt base, coffee, tobacco, and a hint of hops and pepper at the finish. It has a Guinness-like feel: moderately carbonated, creamy, and very easy to drink at 5.5% ABV. Overall, this is a nicely-executed Irish Stout. The flavors are a little subdued but it's very easy to drink.

I had the non-nitro version of this beer but it was so smooth and creamy you almost could have fooled me. Chewy, roasty, and not at all watery like a lot of Irish Dry Stouts. Delicious.

This beer just overtook Black Mo from Otto's as my favorite PA brewed Irish stout. Damn near perfect in every way. Well balanced between the charred malt and the kent hops. Wonderful beer

 

I purchased this growler in the 'boston style' at the brewpub, enjoyed chilled from a stout glass.

The color is almost black with thin light tan head that forms a full collar of cream with fine bead and lace clings in streaks. The smell is strong roasted grain with moderately light caramel and subtle mineral aroma of yeast with a gentle biscuit-like smell. The feel is pretty mild yet medium high roast texture with mild sweetness and medium carbonation level with slight bitterness in a very dry finish.

The taste is very nicely roasted in taste with slight coffee-type quality with a light caramel element from the malt in the middle and hint of yeast which has a slight mineral quality. The malt verges on raisin with char in the back and bitter nutty finish with slight spice and very dry flavor with lingering roast. This is a very good Irish style dry stout -a bit heavy on the roast character and lower than average carbonation from a growler, but in a general way. I would recommend this to fans of stout since this is better than most in this style.