Whole Foods Old Plowshare Stout

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

A nice smooth full bodied brew. Has wonderful toasted oat flavor with a smooth coffee aftertaste. Aroma is nice, but not too powerful. Little head, dark brown body. Not the stoutest of stouts, but pretty good.

Dark mahogany color. Shallow head. Thick lacing. Coffee bean aroma. Taste is acidic with coffee and oats tones. Very nice aftertaste that I can’t quit place. I am often left disappointed by organic brews, but this one was very pleasing.

Dark brown with fair, creamy, tan head / Deep roast cocoa and coffee nose / Medium body, a touch thin, with good balance of malts and hops, with faint sweetness and good, dry finish / Rich, smooth flavors of bittersweet chocolate, oak, roast coffee, and dry hops / A little more ooph in the body and they’ve got something, or it’s a very fine porter.

Pours ebony thickness into the glass with a light head. Deep roasted chocolatey malts on the nose, almost milky. A robust toasted malt/chocolate flavor bleeds itself over the palate with hints of vanilla, and caramel. A smokey tang lingers in the back of the throat. The body is milky, with a chewy quality towards the finish. A burnt, lip-licking stout which is a pleasure to drink.

Pours a medium dark brown with a tan head that leaves substantial lacing. Really nice nose with chocolate, vanilla, caramel and molasses. The flavor is quite the same and slightly coffee like bitterness in the finish. A bit thin in body, but overall enjoyable and underrated.

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.

Bottle (12oz). Deep ruby, nearly opaque, nice one inch lasting tan frothy head, nice drapes of lacing (3+). Very dry aroma, bitter chocolate, some coffee, burnt treacle, a fair amount of herbal bitterness. The taste is mostly chocolate and low-level fresh herbal bitterness - simple but damn that’s lovely. Creamy, luscious mouthfeel, sweet and nicely dry in the finish - damn this is good stuff, I’d drink this all the time!

12oz bottle. Dark and opaque. Almost black. Tan thick ring of head. Strong coffee aroma. Sweet caramel and bready chocolate. Great cola-esque sweetness and bitterness. Coffee flavors permeate. Not the fullest of bodies, but its got a great roast and smooth character. The dryness doesn’t come immediately, it is secondary to the crisp, syrupy sweet malts. A perfect example of a lighter bodied dry stout. Full and rich. Light but flavorful.