Salted Caramel Coffee Stout
Trails To Ales Brewery

Got in a BIF from Ozzylizard. 16 ounce can into tulip glass, no can dating. Pours opaque pitch black color with a 1 finger dense tan head with great retention. Reduces to a thin cap, nice spotty soapy lacing, and light streaming carbonation. Aromas of big milk chocolate, fudge, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, brown bread, nutty medium roast coffee, molasses. Taste follows with big milk/dark chocolate, fudge, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, sea salt, brown bread, molasses, nutty medium roast coffee; light herbal, grass, pepper, dark fruit, char, yeast earthiness. Light herbal, pine, charred bitterness on the finish. Light-medium carbonation and medium-full body. Very creamy/silky/bready malts; light slickness, chalky roast, and sticky hops in the mouthfeel. Lingering sticky/chalky drying, no cloying/acrid/astringent flavors. Light lingering booze and warmth of 10% after the finish. A very impressive imperial stout on malt complexity, the coffee was not nearly as bold as I expected, but loved it as a dessert stout.

Salted Caramel Coffee Stout from TrAils to Ales. Purchased at Franklin Beer, Franklin, PA, 03/10/22. $ 4.00 (Including tax)/16 oz can ($ 0.25oz). In reefer at store, stored at 40 degrees at home. Reviewed 08/10/22. Note that I use DD/MM/YY protocol.
Undated can. Served at 43.5 degrees in a hand washed and dried Jester King Snifter. Final temperature 49.6 degrees.
Appearance – 3.
First pour – Amber Brown (SRM 18), opaque.
Body – Black (SRM 40), opaque. Under direct light, same. When rear-lite, black, and opaque except at the edges – olive at the top and ruby at the bottom.
Head – Average (Maximum 1.3 cm, aggressive center pour), wheat, high density and fizzy, rapidly diminishing to a two mm crown and no cap.
Lacing – None.
Aroma – 3.25 – Weak coffee and weaker caramel. No hops, no malt, no yeast.
Flavor – 3.25 – Follows nose. Coffee – yes. Caramel – yes. Salted caramel – nope. No malt, no yeast, no hops. No ethanol (10 % ABV as marked on label) aroma or taste. Weak gastric warming occurs. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl.
Palate – 3 – Medium, watery, soft carbonation.
Final impression and summation: 3. (After deducting 0.25 point for undated can) Another can of coffee that only dreams of being beer.