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More mediocrity from New Glarus. This is starting to get sad. :(

Pours a black cherry in color with a small, tan colored head, with pretty nice retention, hanging on through most of the glass.

Aroma is definitely cherry forward with a tart note. Hard to pick up much else, some sweet malt character, and an touch of marshmallow.

The flavor is straight up cherry pie with a hint of marshmallow some mild chocolate and wood notes. A tart finish follows. Quite sweet overall. Flavors are clean and well done, just....nothing new for NG.

Not sure where they get away calling this a stout. Absolutely nothing about it comes close to being stout-like. I see BA categorizes it as a fruit beer, which is definitely accurate. I wish Dan would just drop the fruit thing already. Ok, we get it, you make the Country's best fruit beers but I, for one, am sick of them. I would have happily given up both the Cranbic AND the Cherry Stout for the Eisbock that was planned for late 2009 early 2010. I can't rate the beer too low, since there is really nothing wrong with it. It's just more of the same which is the main problem for me.

Served In: Bottle

Browned ruby cola color with a soft, loosely set dark ivory top of pinky high stature. Minimal lacing in a couple squiggly strings and dots.

Aroma is dark cherry sweet and vanilla with a soda-esk effervescence. More like a malted beverage type of aroma then beer related.

Same goes for the taste, very soda, malt beverage like, overly sweet and cherry soaked with an unbalanced character that doesn't seem all that stout-like in character. Sweet and tangy with that certain tart cherry bite with no real mellow tones or subtleness. Its broad and rich with cherry. Unfavorably, however; and impartial to the buds. A nice experiment, but nothing to seek out or get worked up about. Unless sour cherry stuff is your thing, then by all means, this beer will suit your tastes just right.

Feel is deeply soured with cherry tartness and no balance within a slick, tart grabbing light/medium body.

I could hardly bring myself to drink it. Far too sweet and cola, malt beverage-like. How sad, I usually like New Glarus offerings, but this was a huge surprising disappointment. Bluck...

Served In: Pint Glass

12 ounce bottle
Latest in the Unplugged series. Pours a dark red, close to black. slightly pink head 1" in height. Extremely sharp smell of tart cherries. Very full in the mouth of Sour Cherries and vanilla. The big question, which I see has been brought up in previous reviews, should this be concidered a Stout? There wasn't the roasted malt character I was expecting. It's more of a dark fruit ale. If you have this not expecting a Stout profile, you won't be disappounted.

Serving type: bottle

Reviewed on: 04-21-2006 16:30:20

Served In: Bottle

The pour is almost black with a slightly red tint to it. Head fades pretty quickly. Smell is very interesting. Fruity, an sour. THe taste is much of the same, sour fruits and almost sweet with some alcohol coming in at the end.

Served In: Pint Glass