Creekside Coffee Stout
Canuck Empire Brewing

Sooo smokey love it

very good, deep bold coffee - smoke flavor, bitter finish

Canuck Empire 'Creekside Coffee Stout' @ 5.2% , served from a 650 ml bottle purchased for $6.50
A-pour is a cola brown from the bottle to a near black in the glass with a small tan head leaving a streaky lace along the pint
S-coffee
T-creamy smooth start , bitter finish
MF-ok/good carbonation , medium body
Ov-ok beer ,
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650ml bottle. Made with Clearbrook coffee - it's not overly clear whether it was the brew or the brewer who took the dose, however.

This beer pours a pretty solid black, with subtle basal red cola edges, and one flabby finger of puffy, rocky, and kind of bubbly chocolate milk head, which leaves some scattered waveform lace around the glass as it quickly bleeds away.

It smells of bitter cold coffee, semi-sweet cocoa powder, a subtle wet char, grainy caramel malt, and weak earthy, herbal, and leafy hops. The taste is bittersweet chocolate, still acerbic black coffee, understated bready pale malt, a nice isolated toastiness, and the same herbal, dirty leafy hops from the nose.

The bubbles are quite tame in their low-key, barely supportive frothiness, the body medium-light in weight for the style, and more or less smooth, that coffee element slowing chipping away at the foundation. It finishes generally dry, the coffee, roasted malt, and obfuscated hops not entertaining many thoughts of sweetness on this side of the crik, that's fer sure.

An acceptable stout, the coffee element really straining to exhibit its edgy craft origins (I'm assuming, as I don't really care enough to look them up), while the lesser smoke and hop notes round things out, but less than it seems they should. Worth a go, if you need your coffee stout fix.