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Arvon Brewing Co.

A - Pours pitch black with a thin tan head. Nice amount of soapy lacing.

S - Aroma is dark chocolate, coffee and roasted malts.

T - The taste is dark chocolate, black coffee, roasted malts, black licorice, vanilla and finish with a bitter char in the finish.

M - Medium body with medium carbonation. Creamy mouthfeel with a soft dry finish.

O - Solid stout. Big roasts flavors. Pretty easy drinking for 11%.

No canning date (released on 4/1/21, so presumably canned within a few days of that date); consumed on 5/5/21

Pours a pitch-black body with slight cardboard-brown highlights touching the surface, and capped with a sliver of near-creamy, pale mocha foam, which itself fades almost immediately to a sparse few paper-thin islands of cap, a moderate, frothy collar, and thin strands of webby lacing holding tentatively to the walls of the glass.

Aroma opens with a hint of black licorice grazing chocolate-covered cherries, with a refined roast character sporting tinges of bittersweet bakers chocolate char and an air of booze to accent the budding grit to this bouquet.

Taste features dark fruit esters and a pillowy, charred malt into smoked coffee beans contrasted by the sweetness of malted milk balls shells on the mid-palate; wispy vanilla is interspersed across the back end, while defined milk chocolate and persistent smoky characteristics mark the more rounded finish.

Mouthfeel shows a medium body accompanied by a lightly perceptible carbonation barely tickling the palate as a semi-creamy texture envelopes the senses over time; a delicate acridity sees a pronounced yet pillowy char grazing the back end before a faint stickiness guides an increasingly full, slick body through the finish.

A surprisingly fervent roast profile leaves distant suggestions of candied chocolate struggling to keep pace, finding a stout with initial promise that fails to entirely deliver with much authenticity the layered, candy shop accents it attempts to project.

ONE PINT can
Served in a snifter

This beer pours black and is topped with an inch of dark mocha head that leaves a little spotting of lacing.

The smell is roasted malt, dark chocolate, and coffee. Hints of alcohol.

The taste is bitter chocolate, coffee, and some hints of booze and anise.

Full bodied with a thicc mouthfeel

This is a solid stout but way overpriced for me. It was $28 for a four pack. It needs to be more than just solid at that price point.