North Coast Black Hart

Brewed by North Coast Brewing Company
Style: Dry Stout
Fort Bragg, California USA

Bottle. Pours barely translucent ruby brown with thick tan head, dense and bubbly. Nose has light milk chocolate, herbal hops, roasted grain, hints of sourness. Flavor has roasted coffee, mild chocolate, resiny hop bitterness in sides of mouth, moderate lingering bitterness and herbal hops in the finish. Palate is full and oily. At 4.99 a six-pack at Trader Joe’s in northern california this is undoubtedly the best beer for the money around, this wins it an extra point or two.

Date: 01/26/2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party

Appearance: clear dark ruby red, fine tan head, drippy lace,
Aroma: dry roasted malt aroma with a touch of vanilla sweetness,
Flavor: dry roasted malt flavor, dark chocolate bitterness, touch of dark caramel sweetness,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.1/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

12oz bottle, from Trader Joe’s I believe the bottle came from trader joes. no date but i believe that this beer was purchased maybe 6 months ago. I also believe that this is A solid irish stout. it poured a super deep brown with a thick tan head that driped over the sides of my stemware. the aroma was roast choclate, and the flavor was more of the same. hints of carmel but not a lot of sweetness. the palate was a bit sticky, but the beer was very soomth. I didn’t notice much of the carbantion mention by other raters, so this much be an older bottle, but it s a good drinable sotu by a good brewery for a good price. sounds like a winner to me.

Appearance: Pours a dark brown body with a small, khaki-colored head. Smell: Aroma of roasted barley, licorice, and dark chocolate. Taste: Roasted barley with flavors of licorice and a hint of unsweetened chocolate. There’s a big, gaping hole where you’d expect a little sweetness to be found. It’s really just a continuation of the aforementioned flavors till to reach the dry finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium carbonation. Drinkability: North Coast sure does churn out alot of dry stouts. I have trouble seeing myself reach past an Old Stock Ale or an Old Rasputin to try this again.

Poured black with a beige head. Aroma of chocolate and caramel. Went down fairly smooth with only a hint of bitterness. Slighlty over carbonated, but didn’t affect this great brew

Pours a transparent dark mahogany with a spotty-lacing light tan head. Aroma of slightly oxidized sweet dark caramel and milk chocolate. Starts somewhat thinner with a mild dark caramel and lactose sweetness before a drier finish. An ok dry stout, but seems pretty bland. Perhaps an older bottle, but it looks like the bottle itself was manufactured sometime in 2007.

Dark mahogany, clear, compact brown head. Very nice nose of raisins, fig jam, and chocolate. Chocolate and raisins/dates with a woody dry finish. a little too carbonated, but otherwise a delicious brew, more like an old school porter.

12 oz bottle from stoutlover72, thanks Garrett. Pours a dark brown body with murky chocolate brown edges and a large foamy light tan head. Aroma of roasted malts, espresso beans, chocolate, molasses and bread. Very thin bodied with lots and lots of carbonation that was very distracting for a stout and really knocked this beer down a few points. Flavor of burnt coffee, toast and chocolate. The bubbliness of this beer is more bothersome then Reese Witherspoons acting.