No Stout Left Behind
Transient Artisan Ales

No Stout Left Behind from Transient Artisan. 16 fl oz can picked up at Horrocks, Grand Rapids, MI, 23/08/25 - $ 5.18 (including tax and deposit)/$ 0.324/fl oz. Reviewed 04/10/25, review 3603. Note that I use DD/MM/YY protocol.
Undated can. On room temperature shelf at store, stored at home at 40 degrees F. Served at 55.2 degrees F in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. The final temperature is 58.2 degrees F.
Appearance – 4
First pour – Brown (SRM 20), opaque.
Body – Black (SRM 40), opaque. Under direct light, same. When rear-lite, same with light penetration only at the edges, brown.
Head – Average (Maximum two cm, aggressive center pour). Tan Brown lightening to Biscuit as it oxygenates, high density, short retention, leaving a 0.4 – 0.5 cm crown and a thin partial cap.
Lacing – Poor. Just a couple of lonely tiny islands.
Aroma – 3.75 – Weak malt, no hops, no alcohol.
Flavor – 4 – Starts slightly sweet with chocolate and bourbon(?), no hops, no alcohol (12 % ABV, according to the label). No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl. Marked gastric burning. Ends slightly sweet with no hints of bourbon.
Palate – 3.5 – Medium: Watery: Soft but lively carbonation.
Style: Basically, follows the style guidelines as condensed by BA.
Final impression and summation: 3.75 (After deducting 0.25 point for an undated container) Uncredited art work. The transitory bourbon taste was unexpected and welcome, providing a fortuitous lift to what is an otherwise average stout. Hopefully the sweetness of this “Blended Imperial Cream Stout” doesn’t indicate lactose. The palate was closer to a porter than any imperial stout.