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Whole Foods Old Plowshare Stout

Whole Foods Old Plowshare Stout - Dry Stout

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 Percentile 
81
overall
Brewed by North Coast Brewing Company
Style: Dry Stout

Fort Bragg, California USA

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
2983.41/5.03.39/5.0Special5.7%82.4English pint
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Commercial Description:
Brewed for Whole Foods. Old Plowshare is a full-flavored Celtic style Stout. Smooth and firm-bodied with the bold flavor notes of dark roasted malts. Because Old Plowshare is organic it remains true to the time-honored Irish tradition of respect for natural ingredients. A great pub classic or the perfect Black and Tan.
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 fro2218 (466), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/516/20
Nov 2, 2007  
Dark bronw almost black. A lot of coffee and roast malt. Nice and sweet yet dry. A little tartness to round it out.


 tronraner (1905), Maryville, Tennessee, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/56/103/514/20
Oct 19, 2007  
12 oz bottle. Pours dark brown with beige head. The aroma is quite chocolatey with some medium roast coffee and a little bit of almond. The flavor starts off with a candy-bar chocolatey sweetness, but then some coffee bitterness mellows it out a little. Some nutty tones emerge in the middle, but it thins and gets a touch carbonic in the finish. Nice dry, ashy aftertaste, though.


 jmuhops (663), Winchester, Virginia, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/515/20
Oct 14, 2007  
Pours deep brown with a large beige head. Great roasted coffee aroma with hints of milk chocolate. Big roasted malt flavor up front. It fades away quickly, with a slight sourness on the tail. As short as the initial flavor is, the finish is long: nutty, bitter coffee. Almost espresso-ish. Actually, the finish is exactly like espresso. Good stuff.


 aubreya (676), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/56/103/516/20
Sep 25, 2007  
The color was an amber/brown. The head was creamy, thin, and medium beige. The aroma was slightly roasty with hints of coffee and some malt. The aroma is pretty week overall for a stout. The flavor was better than the aroma. It was mostly roasty, coffee, and malt. The palate was nicely carbonated. The finish was roasty.


 Cornfield (4892), Oak Forest, Illinois, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Sep 25, 2007  
Interesting. I didn’t pick this up at a Whole Foods and, like the Cru d’Or, it doesn’t name Whole Foods anywhere on the bottle. Oh, welll...
It pours a deep mahogany highlighted in red and has a moderate beige head. The aroma is roasted malt & barley and a bit of coffee and milk chocolate. A bit thin, but tasty. The chocolate becomes more prominent in the flavor and it finishes on a dry, coffee ground note. Not bad.

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 emacgee (1859), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/515/20
Sep 23, 2007  
Pours a dark brown and looked reddish brown in the glass. The head is thick, beige, creamy. The aroma is prominent coffee, sweet, roasted malt, caramel, earthy. The flavor has a prominent roasted character, caramel, unfermented sugars. Very carbonated palate. Decent.


gripweed57 (19), Hamilton Square, New Jersey, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/54/102/58/20
Sep 19, 2007  
Transluscent dark brown color. Small tan head. Medium coffeeish roasted malt aroma. Roasted malt flavor lacks depth. More like a brown ale or porter than a stout. Long dry finish.


 ElJefe (553), Rochester, New York, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Sep 16, 2007  
Very dar reddish-brown with a medium sized tan head. Chocolate and molasses in the aroma. Flavor of caramel, chocolate, and some roasted coffee which last throughout a moderately long finish.



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