Shucker's Reward Oyster Stout
Cape Cod Beer

 

Had on tap. Pours opaque, black in color with 1/3 inch head. Taste is salt, Bosco chocolate syrup, and white creamy sugar. Medium bodied, low carbonation, roasty and at times cloying. Of all the beers I went up to get drafts of, this was my least favorite. Body aside the taste hit the style and was true to it, but was not interesting enough to make up for the body,

 

 

 

 

Healthy finger plus of very dark brown foam, agitated and evaporates swiftly as the surface becomes mottled, not much stick to the meager lacing. Black liquid, opaque to the point there’s no visible carbonation, not even a ring of orange at the rims. The nose has a metallic ring to it, not altogether surprising given the oysters, powdered dark chocolate and cocoa the largest element overall, not that much roast, pleasant enough but nothing really going on. In the mouth it’s medium-bodied and quite dry, if not puckering. That oyster, metallic thing persists and here it’s joined by roasted meats, sort of like brisket. Touch of cola to the cocoa, mocha base. Carbonation is weak but thankfully that dryness substitutes for movement. Here the fruit shades more to white grape than richer plum. Easy to drink, devoid of flaws but in almost every way unremarkable.