North Coast Old No. 38 Stout

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

The flavor is sweet with strong chocolate notes. The color is dark brown and it has a fantastic brown head - looking like a stout should. The flavor is dominated by chocolate and coffee with sweet notes - all coming from a great malt blend. All in all a great beer.

(Bottle 35,5 cl) Pours a very beautiful, clear, reddish mahogany with a dense, creamy beige coloured head. Roasted, lightly burned aroma. Medium body with accents of lightly burned malt and a hint of coffee. Light underlying sweetness all the way through. The malts leave quite some bitterness on my palate in the finish. 260206

Bottled. Black, or at least very dark ruby, beige, dense head. Rich aroma of licorice and chocolate. Dry and salty with clean but rounded mouthfeel. Fairly roasty, coffee and aromatic citric hops dominate until a salty, bitter finish. Excellent hop profile and decent malt profile. Like most US microbrews it's an extrovert, flavourful beer, focusing on loads of flavour than subtle complexity.

12 fl oz bottle. Pours black with a huge creamy and tan head. Roasted malt and somewhat wet woody hops note. Flavour is hardroasted malt and solid bitter. Goes into a more smooth flavour before the finish with a creamy texture containing notes of coffee and malt. Mild chocolate note too. Dry bitter finish with more of the same roasted malt flavour coming through.

Bottle. Dark brown stout with a thin, pale foam. Not very "heavy", but has a nice roasted aroma and a hint of fruit ? There is a slight bitterness in the finish.

Bottle. Malty coffee aroma. Almost black colour, small creamy head. Creamy mouthfeel. Quite bitter, not sweet or malty. It tastes a bit like malt bitterness, not to my liking.

Bottled. Brown/rubyish colour with mediumsized brown head. Aroma is raisins, sweet malts and dark chocolate. Roasted malts, toffee and chocolate in flavour. Hops become present in the aftertaste along with roast. OK stout, though it’s a bit thinpalated.

Bottled. Dark brown coloured with a beige head. Roasted aroma with notes of chocolate and coffee. Roasted flavour of chocolate and coffee with notes of dried fruits.