Stone Coast Jamaican Stout

Brewed by Sunday River Brewpub and Restaurant
Style: Foreign Stout
Bethel, Maine USA

Pours a barely transparent dark mahogany with a spotty-lacing light tan head. Aroma has a nice dark caramel sweetness with some bittersweet chocolate and dark fruity complexity. Body starts with good earthy dark chocolate complexity well balanced with some earthy bittering hops and lightly roasted malt toward a rich, dark chocolatey finish. A nice and true to style foreign stout.

Courtesy Beerlando. Pours a rich deep rown color, nice creamy tan-brown head that holds on for a while. Nice aromas of molasses, coccoa, touch of coffee. Flavor is roasty toasty, I know just work with me, finishes with a nice roasted bitterness. Nice stout.

bottle poured into as snifter, dark in color almost black with a thick layer of head on the beer. carbination is light, smell is chocolate, roasted malts, slight sweetness, and coffee. taste is very smooth, good mouth feel, light bitterness, and some roasted notes. this was one of several beers tasted in this session and was by far the best one, but also the last one drank leaving my memory a little fuzzy.

22 oz bottle. Pours a clear dark brown with a fluffy tight bubbled brown head that had excellent retention. Lots of thick clingy lacing. Nose is a nice blend of chocolate, roast, some lactose sweetness, light fruity notes, chalk, and some coffee. Flavor is a semi-sweet slightly fruity and lactic fore with roast, coffee and chocolate. Finishes with a moderate hoppiness and a long lingering burnt malt taste. Mouthfeel is medium to full bodied with a nice slightly oily texture and fine soft carbonation. Really coats the mouth on the finish. Overall, a beer that I quite enjoyed. Maybe not as thick as some tropical stouts, but enjoyable.

Bomber drunk on 8/18/07
Huge, cascading, tan head atop a dark brown/black body with medium clarity. Retention and lacing are strong.
Biting and quite sweet in the nose, as the hop bitterness, and darker malts add quite the punch. Unfortunately, plentiful sweet caramel and toffee notes are right beside it, and, rather than balance, I feel they both just muddle and overwhelm. That said, what is there is interesting, I just think it needs toning down. Clean, though, and without any alcohol warmth.
The flavor, however, definitely finds itself awash in alcohol, hop and roasted malt bitterness, with a massive choco-caramel sweetness that is almost gooey. Abrasive on the palate. Supple malts, of course, and a fairly tight carbonation, but just way to forceful. Light hints of adjunct sugar do not help its cause either.

Bottle... Clear burnt-orange ale with a small white head. Good retention. My nose pulls stale coffee and milk chocolate from the glass along with lesser notes of sorghum, toasted almonds and cashews. Burnt, bitter flavor with very little residual sweetness. Medium to full-bodied with a creamy mouthfeel and medium carbonation. Lengthy, bitter, charcoal finish. Cheers to Beerlando for sharing his bottle!

Hazy dark brown pour with dark chestnut highlighting. Mostly diminishing thin beige head. This is immediately identifiable as a Foreign Extra stout upon first nosing. Oatmeal, molasses, singed chocolate, cocoa butter and roasted grains aplenty lead the aroma forward. Then comes the fun twist, Sorghum: this is most likely not in the beer, but the addition is as plain as day and adds a great depth to the nose, a real treat and quite a surprise. Light coffee notes and light floral hops waft in. Alcohol is modestly concealed. The flavor is mild bitter, from both roasted malt and ample hops for this style. This is presented very well, though sadly most traces of anything resembling Sorghum are muted. Plenty of roasted malt overrides most florals but isn’t overplayed. Sweetness is medium and loaded with molasses and some mild burned dark fruit. The finish is brief, roasty, with minor hints of chocolate and bitterness lingering a short while. The mouthfeel is medium bodied, moderately carbonated and very smooth. A very good beer, quite memorable too - the highlight of a good-sized tasting.

Thanx to Beerlando for sharing this.Pours black with almost no head. Aroma was off setting.Smelt like dry dogfood that got wet.Strange.Flavor was much better. Chocolate and coffee with a thin mouthfeel.Finish was slightly bitter.