Black's Dawn
Cismontane Brewing Company

 

Black color with fizzy mocha colored head. Aroma has dark malts, rye bread, malt soda and some burnt sugar. Taste is mostly roasty with burnt bread crust notes and leftover coffee bitterness on the finish. Medium body with medium to low carbonation. Not bad but it's a bit simple and feels to fizzy for a proper coffee stout.

 

 

 

Look: It pours dark brown, almost black with a brown head. Initial aroma is a deep, dark roasted coffee. There are also moderate roasted elements in the aroma. There is a faint dark fruit smell well into the background.

Taste: The initial flavors are a combination of coffee and roast. There is a bit of spiciness to it. The are also backgrounds hints of wood and dark fruits.

Feel: It has a smooth texture to it and is moderately bitter in the finish with sweetness combining with bitterness at the end.

Overall, this is a malt driven beer with coffee and roasted elements. Other flavors are well into the background and enhance the malts.

 

Straight to the point stout, not something I would drink all time but I got it for five bucks. Lighter brown head with a dark black body, burnt grain smell and a good bit of dark chocolate. The taste contains a couple more things than the aroma did. Again with the burnt grains but picking up some woody elements as well, molasses and even the slightest hint of caramel, dark fruits, not boozy. Very easy to drink overall.

16oz Bottle
It was for sale at the Beer and Wine store for $5.99.
I'd never heard of this brewery or the beer so I said, "What the heck. Why not?"

On the Pour:
It was very opaque. I could see, right from the start, that it was WAY too over-filtered (my pet peeve).
The head was only light khaki. The color you'd expect from a pale beer.

Aroma:
Coffee and some lightly roasted grains. That's it.

Flavor:
The mouthfeel was alright. More than I thought it would be but still not great from what I expect from a stout.
The coffee was the overwhelming flavor. Behind that was some roasted malt. But mostly coffee.
BUT. And this is a big 'But'.
When the canister of coffee tells you to mix 5 tbsp of coffee to 5 cups of water, but instead you mix 2 tbsp of coffee to 5 cups of water… That is the strength of coffee that I'm getting. It's the only flavor but it's very faint.

I'm not impressed AT ALL.
This was not a good first impression of this brewery. And I probably will not sample any of their other beers if I come across them.

 

I won't go to deep on this one - basically it's fine - not bad, not stellar. It has the right notes for a stout - nice color, decent creamy head, nice lacing; it smells like a stout. But overall this just seems like a stout-lite. It is just too mild to really recommend. Maybe a nice beginner stout.

 

 

From a bomber, this brew is a solid black color with a wonderful tan head. The aroma is roasty, malty, and has a bit of booze underneath. Not as much fruit as others of the style. The taste is a little dry, with roastedness and warmth. The finish is balanced, but the body is a little thin for the style.

Pours an opaque dark brown color with khaki colored head. Burnt grain, and a sugary sweetness on the nose, weird aroma; same for the palate. The malt almost tastes smoked or burnt. Very off flavors.

On nitro tap at Growler Grlz in Durham