Mackeson XXX Stout

Brewed by Boston Beer Company
Style: Sweet Stout
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Courtesy of After4ever, thank you Tom. It’s a pitch black beer with a creamy, lasting, nougat colored head. The aroma has loads of smooth and pleasant toffee, dark fruits, chocolate and roasted malt. The flavour has sweetness and loads of mellow and smooth toffee and the rest is possessed by chocolate and dark fruit. As usual I’m a sucker for beers with a low ABV and a lot of flavour, and this is one of them...

Black and oily with a short-lived tan-ring head. Nose of coffee and strong milky malt/ wheat bread, super creamy. Sweet flavor has roast, coffee, graham cracker. A little bitter, this is too watery in the palate. Decent, but not a favorite.

Pours a really nice deep deep brown with a thin tan head. Aroma is a little understated but some nice malt characteristics there. Flavor is very smooth, a little sweet. This is an easy drinking beer. Almost a little dark fruit going on. Tasty.

Pours inky black in color, with a nice half inch of brown mocha head. Smell is roasted malts, a little bit of chocolate and some molasses. Taste is much more chocolate than was in the nose. A good amount of bittering hops and carbonation. Medium body on the mouthfeel. Easy drinking and won’t do too much damage. At around $12 for a twelve pack this is a good tasting beer.

Could drink this one for days! Pours black with a nice tan/brown head that diminishes quickly. Has a nice roasty, chocolate aroma that is rather mild, but smooth. Taste is more complex than I anticipated. It has a nice mix of chocolate, coffee, some mild cherries with a tobacco/cigarette ash finish. Very smooth and creamy on the toungue with a slightly bitter cherry/coffee finish. Would drink again!

Pours an opaque black with brown thin ring of head. Roasty, sweet chocolate, some tobacco leaves? Sweet, dark roast malt, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, cherries. Medium thin body. Delicious. I normally don’t care for sweet stouts, but this was superb.

Bottle from Woodstock Wine and Deli in Portland, OR--Poured a thick dark, molasses body. No head. Pure engine oil and molasses. Sticky toffee, robust. Almost undoable. Eh. Boston Beer Company isn’t the brewer of the Mackeson XXX I had. It was brewed in London, England.

Bottle. Poured an opaque dark brown with a big chocolatey head that increases as air bubbles through the beer and settles atop the beer. Leaves a nice lacing. Aroma is coffee and malts with a biting alcohol note at first that settles down. Flavor is coffee, hints of chocolate with a roast after taste. A touch creamy in the mouth.