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Wiens Brewing Company

Welcome back to New Porters & Stouts Sunday (Week 729), A Divergence From Happy New Russian Stone Beer Sunday (Week 729)! Thanks goes out to my local, in-person trader, @tone77 for CANtinuing to further The CANQuest (tm) during his travels.

From the CAN: "Limited Series"; "This medium-bodied brew has smooth notes of chocolate and coffee, as well as a delicious roasty taste to round it all off."; "Enjoy!"

I certainly hope to live up to their admonition. It CAN't happen without first Crack!ing open the vent & performing a slow, C-Line Glug. I am becoming fatigued & I really don't want to have to deal with cleaning up a mess, if one were to occur. Oooh. A spritz across my fingertips revealed a brimful craft CAN! That is always so exciting. Equally exciting was the pseudo-cascade that took place as I poured. It quickly settled into just under three fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, deep-tan/light-brown head with great retention. Color was Black/Opaque (SRM = 44), allowing ZERO light penetration. Nose was rich & redolent with dark, black coffee, the kind we used to look forward to on the Mess Decks! Mmm. Coffee. Mouthfeel was big, full & creamy. Yay! I like a solid mouthfeel in/from a Stout. The taste was very much of deep, dark-roasted coffee, but its bitterness was rather low, making it eminently drinkable. I do not mind bitterness, either from hops or coffee, but this was made better at this late hour by virtue of its absence. Finish was dry, certainly not sweet, with a certain je ne-sais quois. Why did I like it so much? Was it the coffee? Was it the drinkability? Was it that I was getting punchy? Who knows. YMMV.

 

It looks like I am the first to review this beer. Poured from a 12 oz. can. Has a black color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is of strong coffee with light cream. Taste is coffee, chocolate, some smokiness, Feels full bodied in the mouth and overall is a quality beer worth trying.