Whole Foods Old Plowshare Stout

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

yea for this beer, this beer makes me happy because it is organic and taste excellent. i am a big supporter of organics and this is my favorite organic beer by far. it pours i lite colour for a stout redish brown the nose is slight with chocolate. it has a wonderful chocolate taste with coffe added in to it. thabk you north coast for making organic beer good.

I was surprised to see that North Coast was brewing for Whole Foods, but wasn’t surprised to learn that it lived up to North Coast’s standard’s.

Pours almost pitch black with a good fingers worth of tan head. Aroma is a lot of roast and some coffee. Flavor is more of the same. It’s got a nice taste on the front, but the backend is a little bitter. It is fairly smooth drinking though if a little watery..

First of all, this is the redest stout I’ve ever seen. Pours a clear deep amber which doesn’t seem to fit the style. Nose is fantastic. Tons of fresh cacao is noticed along with some coffee roastiness. Palate on this stout is weaker and thinner than it should be which kind of carries over to the flavor as well. Kind of reminds me of a sweet stout along the lines of a milk stout. This is certainly drinkable but my rating will be substantially skewed higher simple due to the aroma category.

Pours a not entirely opaque, almost cloudy brown with lots of lace. Bright notes of fresh coffee in the nose, some sea water and candied licorice. Mildly bitter roasted flavours and some nuttiness. Clean, dry, refreshing, bit sweet, tiny bit of acidity in the finish. If I could pick this up at my local supermarket it’d be a treat. Nicely done.

12 oz. bottle. Pours a deep brown with amber highlights. A one inch tan head that fades relatively quickly leaving behind very little lacing. Coffee, caramel, and roasted malt on the nose. Medium high carbonation that is a little prickly. Very dry in the mouthfeel. Earthy notes, some coffee, and malt sweetness on the palate. A little on the watery side. For a stout, I would definitely say it lacks body and flavor. Probably closer to a porter. Not a bad stout for the summer months though.

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.

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.