Whole Foods Old Plowshare Stout

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

Pours dark brown with reddish highlights and a tight, pillowy, beige head that deposits creamy lace in its wake. Chocolate and roasted malt are on the nose with a touch of spicy hops hiding in the background. Medium-bodied and soft, the mouthfeel is oily-slick with a roasted, lightly bitter finish. Dark roasted malt, ash & chocolate malt combine into a failry tasty beer. It almost seems like a blend of a robust porter and a dry stout. Regardless of what you call it, it is one of those beers which comes together in a way that the sum is greater than its parts; a solid, quaffable stout.

Suprising amber appearance for this stout. Medium bodied with a nice chocolate malt accented backbone. Moderate to heavy roasted essence with a good hop presence in a milky, think chocolate milk, stout body.

The 12 ounce bottle poured a clear, deep ruby red colored beverage with a modest sized frothy tan head that was mostly lasting leaving good lacing on the glass. The aroma had a strong presence of cherries and dates with notes of coffee and caramel. The body was a bit thinner than I would have liked it with average carbonation and a watery texture. The flavor started out a bit sweet (for a dry stout) and then became unpleasantly bitter.

Dark brown with a fizzy tan head. Roasty chocolate aroma. Dry chocolate and roasty taste mild bitterness.

Bottle: pours a darkish brown with a thin tan head that quickly disappears, aroma has a touch of chocolate and malt, taste is malty with a thinish mouthfeel. This isn’t too bad but there is nothing special about this that would make me want to buy it again.

12oz Bottle - 99 Bottles - Federal Way, WA
Aroma – Nice stout aroma. Had some chocolate and coffee lingering.
Appearance – Dark Brown color, clear and a thin head.
Flavor – Nice tasting beer the dark malts where very nice this was a easy drinking stout smooth with flavor.
Palate – Nice smooth Mouthfeel, dry finish.
Overall – I liked this stout. It had flavor was tasty and came off very full. It was light a tad in the finish but overall the flavors where very nice.

Pours a dark cola with a reddish tint and a medium sized beige head. Aroma of roasted malt and coffee beans. Taste of roasted malt and coffee beans as well. A nice and simple stout.

Opaque black with a half-inch tan head. Roasted malt aroma; roasted malt and coffee flavors. Thin mouthfeel and body. Kind of generic feeling, but not bad.