Stout
BeerdMeister

355ml can - I'm still not sure if this is a separate entity from King of Springs, where the Beerdmeister branded products are made. At any rate, and with trepidation in my heart, here we go.

This beer pours a medium orange-brick brown colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat fizzy tan head, which leaves some splotchy and sudsy lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.

It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, plastic packaging pellets, stale coffee grounds, and a weird, hard to identify bitterness. The taste is roasted caramel malt, rather dry cocoa powder, further unpleasant Styrofoam peanut notes (not that I actually know what those things taste like), and very little else.

The carbonation is fairly benign in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and not particularly smooth, as that chemical essence takes a major toll at this juncture. It finishes trending dry, like the stuffing in upholstery.

Overall - yeah, I'm not exactly surprised at how this one turned out, as I have been fooled way more than the proverbial two times by these schmoes. But I also believe in improvement and redemption, for which I fear I will be waiting a while longer. Another huge fail, I'm afraid to say.