Whole Foods Old Plowshare Stout

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

(Bottle 35,5 cl) Pours a pretty, clear mahogany with a warm, reddish glow and an off-white head. Coffeeish, malty nose. Medium body with lots of roasted and slightly burned malts. Distinct coffee flavours. Bitter finish from the burned malts. 060706

Beer pours dark brown, clear with a one finger head and little lacing. Deep aroma of sweet roast, chocolate and milk. The flavor was like drinking a malted milkshake with a touch of roast. Lots of lactic flavors, which isn’t a big favorite of mine. Nice creamy mouthfeel. Not bad.

nice aroma on this fine stout with a grape and cherry sense to it. deep dark it gives off red unto the light. light coffee that is roasted and lightly sweet. a little light on the body but fair to the palate. best organic i ever had.

Bottle... Poured black with a billowy, tan head. Roasted aroma of almonds and sugary malts. On the lighter side, a nice creamy lactic yeast flavor with roasted malts and mild hop balance. Chocolately, cookie flavor meshed with a smoked, charcoal coffee note in the finish.

Pours ebony/mahogany into a shaker. Oatmeal conglomerate head with good retention leaves spotted sheets as it recedes. Sour pit fruits, citrus and dusty chocolate aromas. Sharp and sour upfront changing to espresso and chocolate in the middle to the lasting roasty bitter chocolate finish.

Pours dark brown with large light head. Aroma of caramel, molasses, and roasted malts. Decent flavors of roasted coffee and dark chocolate with hoppy bitterness at the end. Not incredibly complex but worth a try.

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.

Bottle: Pours a dark brown with a medium tanned head. Aroma is rich with coffee, mocha, and roasted tones. Flavor is roasty with cocoa, light chocolate, and lingering bitters. One of the better organic brews I’ve sampled to date.