Whole Foods Old Plowshare Stout

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

Bottle. Dark mahogony-brown beer with a beige head. Roasty aroma with some coffee tones. Sweet malt flavor with lots of roast and a hint of chocolate. Easy drinking. Medium bodied. Sweetness lingers.

Dark reddish-brown color with a lot of light penetration. Medium thin beige head that lasts pretty well, and thin sheets of lacing. Aroma of roasted malt and coffee. Medium-bodied and creamy with lots of roasted coffee flavor throughout. Other flavors like chocolate and malt are not as consistent though. The finish is mildly bitter coffee and a little watery. Above average overall, and not by far.

Winter Welcom Toronto. Sweet aroma of sugared coffee, malt and dark chocolate, darkest brown, ruby at the edges, small toffee head. Taste is a sweet toasted malt, chicory, burnt toast. Medium bodied, very well balanced, sweet, dry and bitter all at once. Terrific. Thanks Radek Kliber.

Dark amber color, not totally opaque, with thin tan head. Aroma is very roasty, chocolate malt and sweet molasses. Classic stout flavor. Pretty much all the aroma notes plus I taste a bit of black patent. Pretty good stout but not more.

12-oz. Black with a thick moussy tan head. Fairly light nose of semi-sweet baking chocolate, but even that is dusty and subdued. Body’s a little on the low side of medium, with active carb. There’s a big bold roasty note about halfway through the mid-palate, that falls into a lightly spicy and peppery finish. It’s simple, maybe a bit too much so, and very direct, but it showcases well the benefit of choosing one nice bold note to emphasize and leaving everything else around just to stabilize it. Still, I can see why they put it out for private label rather than bragging about it too much by putting their own name on it--’cause it’s pretty darn good, but not really great.

Very nice chocolatie stout. Rich roasty dark chocolate flavors with a great balance. Smooth on the palate with a good body to it. Pours dark borwn witha small tan head. Very well built stout balancing a good chocolate character with a lightly hoppy bitter finish.

Murky and deep dark brown. Quickly fading tan head. Curious mouthfeel ... seemed much too light at times and OK in others. Malts were richly flavored, with bold elements of dark chocolate, coffee with cream and a caramel-sweet base. Roasty aromas were really nice, with notes of charred wood, black patent and bitter baker’s chocolate.

Dark brown, good lace. Aroma is sweet roasted coffee. Palate thins out at the end. Flavors are mainly malty and although dry it lacks hop bitterness.