Buzzards Bay Stock Ale

Formerly brewed at Just Beer (fka Buzzards Bay Brewing)
Style: Amber Ale
Westport, Massachusetts USA

For an amber, this pours a deep brown color with golden highlights and an initially dense head that vanishes, but not before coating the glass with Belgian lacing. The aroma is caramel and toffee with herbal and floral hop scents. The flavor is a dark caramel with an earthy bitterness that persists into the finish. Drinkable, but will never be an intentional repeat.

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Re-rate 10/2/05: Pours ruby red with an off white head. Smells of roses, brown sugar and a little malty. Taste is tarte with some cherry notes as well as some nice spicey elements. Slightly metallic finish. This brewer continues to durprise me with their beers.

(bottle) Pours light hazelnut brown, deep blood red in glass. Virtually no head. Smell is malty, like cake, and of something odd that appears to be broccoli. Odd scent builds as beer warms and is definitely broccoli. Flavor is slightly sweet initially, then like broccoli, and ends with a nice, well-rounded, roasted bitterness. Farely full-bodied and smooth on the palate. Not bad overall, except for the unusual notes of broccoli.

2004 bottle from the sampler. Dark auburn-brown with some cherry red hints and a moderate-sized light beige head. Aroma of sweet caramel, candied sugar(though there is none in there) and dry yeast. Flavor starts with a good toasted malt chewiness, lightly dry, but with sweet brown caramel malt in the background. Hmm, I’m not sure this is such an imposter. Filtered and pasteurised, but then, so are all of their beers. They do a good job and brew with quality ingredients. So I can’t fault them too much for the lifeless flavor. Moving on, it seems that there is a faint amount of smokiness in here. It is on the finish and very subtle, but still there. Light fruits finish it off, with a very light hops profile. Strangely, I’ve always like crystal malt, so I guess this is no exception.

very weak taste, gives off an imposter feeling, dont really like it and wouldnt buy it if it didnt come in a sampler.

Tastes sorta lager-ish to me. Dry and weak. Although it’s hard to find, I think this is my least favorite Buzzard’s Bay beer. Nothing really special.

A little on the watery side. I was disappointed with this one. Brewers should learn how to do it by drinking a Sam Adams.

Light for stock ale, most will raise your eyebrows, these seem watery, trying to appeal to the lite beer crowd, glad I’m not one of them. Mild malt and hop presence fair nose, and a decent color at least.