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I don't believe in these nitrogenating beers being sold in beer cans (Guinness on a can is a poor imitation of Guinness on tap in my experience) but we'll see how this one goes. Well Cobblestone Stout actually has the tiny bubbles and cascading foam action you should expect of a nitrogenated beer even if the can opened with quite a roar of escaping nitrogen (which doesn't dissolve in a liquid as well as carbon dioxide).
An extremely thick, highly resilient beige head that leaves impressive lacing. Lovely coffee malt aromas, grain, sweet with milk chocolate hints. It has a really nice flavour that is sweet with lots of coffee and actually it tastes a lot like a latte: coffee, milk chocolate, sweetness and very creamy mouthfeel. Some grain or maybe more accurately biscuit flavours as well make this solid stout almost qualify as food. The coffee flavour in the beer gets a little washed out after you taste a mouthful of the foam revealing some roasty caramel and light touches of hops.
Cobblestone Stout is a nice beer and pretty great proof that nitrogenated stout in a can actually works.
Good review. This is a nice step up from the Guinness, Boddingtons and Kilkenny nitro cans. Did you find this was quite reactive when it was opened? Several people I know, as well as myself, find that these have a tendency to really spurt everywhere, even if it's sat in a cold place for several days. Something to do with the different nitro system Mill Street has to employ, no doubt.
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