Cannery Brewing Maple Stout

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

The beer pours a solid brown colour with a decent sized light brown head. The nose notices whiffs of coffee, dark chocolate, roasted malt, and maple....definitely maple. Quite sweet to start with maple and chocolate notes, but the coffee flavours kick in at the finish. Nicely balanced.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 5

Pored a very dark brown.Thats probably the best I can say about it.Poor appearance.Very thin for a stout.Aroma and flavor totally dominated by the maple.Difficult time finishing this one.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Bomber from the LCBO and second brew from Cannery for me. Pours a real dark brown colour with hardly any highlights. Decent creamy beige head that is also foamy, staying a little while and creating some lacing. Beautiful smooth and rich maple nose with some roasted malts and hints of nuts and vanilla. The mouthfeel is way thinner than expected. The taste is pretty good though, with the roasted malts at first going to a little bitterness from the hop and ending easy with the maple syrup swinging into the aftertaste and a touch of cocoa lingering a bit. An easy-drinking stout (as it is really thin) that is nicely balanced with the maple notes.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

650ml bottle decants a clear deep dark brown ale with ruby highlights – small 1 finger brown cap reduces quickly and goes to a ring that provided modest lacing. Aroma is pleasant an amalgam of stout roastiness (coffee-cocoa), maple and some vanilla sub tones. Flavor follows aroma in its elements – roastiness in front with maple complimenting, low hop presence. Finish gets a bit dryer and bitter roast astringency at the end. Nice maple tone, not overpowering or too sweet, but complimentary. Body a tad thin for a stout but quite drinkable for a flavored stout

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

650ml bottle
5.5% ABV
Queen's Quay LCBO Outlet (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
October 8, 2011
The beer poured a solid molasses dark brown colour with a long lasting thin light brown head. The aroma is maple, coffee, roasted malt, and licorice. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium carbonation. The flavour is roasted malt, coffee, vanilla, and a bitter finish.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

Wow, was my favorite beer for at least two weeks, must of drank a couple dozen in that time. Real true maple, real thick stout, great mouthfeel, not fake and sweet like this could so easily be. Tobbacco in here for sure and clean car smell on the rim of the bottle. Raisins and boiled oats, some brown sugar, really really good.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Dark brown body with almost zero cap just a little skiff floating on top. Smells like coffee sweetened with maple syrup I like I think maybe almost. Watery and feel and taste to this. Coffee dominates with of course the maple syrup coming in a close second. This reminds of those maple cream cookies that I use to have as a kid. After taste reminds me of an oatmeal raisin cookie with cinnamon. Very sweet brew. I like the smell not completely sold on taste, glad I tried it but once was enough for me.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

This beer looked very stout-like from the outset, with a foamy light brown head capping a nearly black and impenetrable body. Aroma was also stout-like yet also there was something more, that being the "natural maple flavour", and not that of refined maple syrup we're used to. Much better than that. The taste, however, will be an acquired one, as the maple did not add a lot of sweetness and in fact this beer was no sweeter than most other stouts I've had. It was just "different". Mouthfeel was quite right, and the finish displayed some burnt coffee offerings.