Name – Raspberry Stout
Country – United States
Type – Raspberry Stout

Appearance – Pours a brownish red color with a thin tan line of a head.  Can see bits of raspberry going to the bottom of the glass.

Smell – Fresh raspberries.

Taste – Raspberries right off the bat but not like raspberry flavoring, real ones.  Tastes like if you just ate a few right off from a market.  There was some slightly dark fruit flavors to it as well and a little alcohol bit at the end.

This was the second of the home brews that I got from Chung and boy was this different.  He said it was a stout so I expected it to be heavy but it really wasn’t.  It looked like a Belgian style ale in it’s consistency then drank like one too.  The real raspberries used in it do make it quite sweet but a very nice after dinner sipping beer.

Overall Grade – B-

Name – Massive Midget
Country – United States
Type – Stout

Appearance – Poured a dark brown but let some light through with a huge bubbly light brown head.

Smell – Wasn’t picking up a whole lot but did get some coffee like notes.

Taste – Very highly carbonated.  Some coffee and chocolate notes with a slightly boozy backing to it.  A little bit of an earthy hop taste at the end.

This is my first time reviewing a home brew.  Chung at the Coffee District gave me this and another to take home and try the other night.  I think this bottle may have gotten too much of the carbonation sugar in the bottle because this was very highly carbonated.  Made a mess on my counter when I poured it about half into my glass 🙂  I would like to try this again to see if maybe it was just this bottle that caused this.

Overall Grade – D+