Ball Peen
Black Bellows Brewing Company
- From:
- Black Bellows Brewing Company
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Irish Dry Stout
- ABV:
- 4%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.4 | pDev: 12.65%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 21, 2025
- Added:
- Jan 09, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Light in alcohol with a roasted character and midnight black colour, this is an all-day kind of stout. It’s got a creamy mouthfeel from flaked barley used in the mash, sure to keep you coming back for more
Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by Pmicdee from Canada (ON)
4/5 rDev +17.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +17.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Aug 21 2025
Aug 21, 2025
Reviewed by Mikehicks100 from Canada (ON)
3/5 rDev -11.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3/5 rDev -11.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Make sure you give it a shake as instructed. 2 finger head that lasts the full drink. Thick Nitro Stout.
So here's what i think.... Take a Light Citrous IPA...but make it a nitro stout. It's fine. I could drink these all day and night and be ok with it. Super easy to drink....... but, a Citrous Nitro Stout? I am personally used to low hop and not much of an orange citrous taste/smell when it comes to Nitro.
Looks like a Nitro...feels like a Nitro but tastes and smells of a Light IPA. Take that how you'd want to.
I'd drink more of these no problem........but if i want an IPA, I'd just get an IPA. If i want a Nitro Stout, I'd get a Guinness clone Nitro Stout. The 2 mixed together don't work, but maybe you would like it more than I.
I would never decline this beer if offered (Unlike Coors..Busch..etc) but i would seek out other beers in LCBO that i enjoy a little bit more if available. If sold out of Nitro.. yea, i could get this one.
Jan 16, 2025So here's what i think.... Take a Light Citrous IPA...but make it a nitro stout. It's fine. I could drink these all day and night and be ok with it. Super easy to drink....... but, a Citrous Nitro Stout? I am personally used to low hop and not much of an orange citrous taste/smell when it comes to Nitro.
Looks like a Nitro...feels like a Nitro but tastes and smells of a Light IPA. Take that how you'd want to.
I'd drink more of these no problem........but if i want an IPA, I'd just get an IPA. If i want a Nitro Stout, I'd get a Guinness clone Nitro Stout. The 2 mixed together don't work, but maybe you would like it more than I.
I would never decline this beer if offered (Unlike Coors..Busch..etc) but i would seek out other beers in LCBO that i enjoy a little bit more if available. If sold out of Nitro.. yea, i could get this one.
Reviewed by Tony787 from Canada (ON)
3.19/5 rDev -6.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
3.19/5 rDev -6.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
Out of a mixed pack from the brewery
473ml at 4%.
Poured a very dark color with a 1finger head into glass leaving a lace all around as you drink it.
Roasted barley gives this a glorious midnight black color and some very nice notes of coffee and chocolate.
Overall a nice Irish stout style stout beer with a medium bitterness level .
Very sweet maybe a little too sweet .
Cheers
Jan 09, 2022473ml at 4%.
Poured a very dark color with a 1finger head into glass leaving a lace all around as you drink it.
Roasted barley gives this a glorious midnight black color and some very nice notes of coffee and chocolate.
Overall a nice Irish stout style stout beer with a medium bitterness level .
Very sweet maybe a little too sweet .
Cheers
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