Whole Foods Old Plowshare Stout

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

bottle-i bought a 4 pack of this with high expectations. I was a little let down i must say. This beer poured crimson red, a little too lite for a stout if you ask me. An off-white colored head topped the beer for a blink of an eye. aroma of toffee, char, dark roast, anise and leafy hops. flavors are big organic, astringent leafy hops and unprocessed grains. Very astringent. some char and roast make their way in there but its all over the top. Some salt in the finish. Finish is overly dry from the earthy/leafy organic hops. not very pleasant if i must say. palate is lite and watery, over-carbonated and spritzy. the organic hops add a spice to the finish as it warms. unique, but not a very good stout.

’Light’ black pour with a moderate head, decent lacing and retention. Aroma is heavy on roast with lesser notes of caramel. Somewhat bittersweet finish. Lacks complexity to keep me interested.

Nearly Black with ruby/brown accents. Average head. Aroma has some cocoa and dark malt flavors and it is slightly buscuity. Taste is of roasted malts and some cocoa. A little weird in the after taste.

huh, i was pouring this and i thought to myself as the large pale brown head formed on the dark brown body, boy this smells watery. then i thought, hey asshole, water doesn’t have a smell, or at least it shouldn’t then i realized 2 things, this smells like ronsonol and particle board cut witha dull blade and that i really need to take a leak. enjoyable burnt notes with a coffee and cereal flavor. dry non butter popcorn flavor lingers. no defineable choclate or caramel flavor here, and that is all right. this is one of those beers that leaves my tongue on the roof of my mouth. not too shabby.

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.

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.

black with a 2 finger cream head. roasted malts, coffee and chocolate scents. dark chocolate and roasted malt flavor and a thickness that is comfortable.

This dark brown ale poured with a fluffy tan head and a chocolate malt aroma. The flavor is bready with noticeable coffee and chocolate features. The initial taste is pleasant and malty, but the finish is watery and disappointing.