Mr Jims Cannon Iron Clad Stout

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

The flavor is a watery coffee and cola mixture. There’s also a slight butteriness in there as well. It’s an ok beer, but it needs more body to truly be satisfying.

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

My last pint of my visit, and the only one that I had with food (a basic shrimp po'boy and some red-beans-n'-rice). Perhaps the food helped pique my interest in this beer, but I do have to say that this was the most interesting of the three, by far.

Said to be poured off a nitro-tap, and yet, when the pint arrived, it had none of the classic "nitro-beer" elements (i.e. the "lava-lamp" show, the thick-n'-creamy head of foam, the smoother-than-normal mouthfeel, etc). So perhaps the place is pulling a fast one, or they were simply having "new brewpub issues" with their nitro. Regardless, this beer still came to me nice and tasty.

Not much aroma, but the flavor profile makes up for that. Dry and toasty -- quite tasty..., and 3-4 steps above what passes for Guinness these days. Hints of chocolate in the backend, with again the dryness coming into play late in the game.

Not a world-class stout, but a very solid, very basic effort at a style that really ought to be in every brewmasters recipe books, IMO. This wouldn't win any awards, but is tasty and satisfying -- and isn't that what really counts?

Recommended.
//TB