Madhouse Coffee Stout

New coffee beer from an Iowa brewery, Madhouse. While this is certainly better than the coffee stout I made, but not by a huge margin. The coffee here is well flavored, smooth, complex, and only slightly bitter, while mine has one note of dark roasted bitterness. The stout body is smooth, clean and mates will with the coffee.The malt body holds up to the bitter coffee well, and lends a solid body to the effort.

Now I'm not saying my coffee stout was awesome, I sure wasn't, but neither is this. It is an acceptable offering from a local-ish brewer, but nothing to write home about. Hopefully Madhouse will get a little more creative in the future, as this is only their third offering to date, and the other two are an American wheat and a pale ale. Not a bad start for a small brewery out of Newton, Iowa, but they're going to have to set it up a bit to make any name for themselves.