Near & Dear
Brewmaster Jack in Florence, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.22
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drpimento (5997) reviewed Near & Dear from Brewmaster Jack 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Another super smooth roasty Imperial Stout. They're more common than they used to be and it's not a bad thing but it's just more common. I really like them a lot but it'd be nice to see something with little more character instead of just playing flat-out super smooth.
Quick3Beers (3145) reviewed Near & Dear from Brewmaster Jack 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pours a near black from a bottle, medium chocolate shake colored head. Typical but good coffee and chocolate notes, well-roasted malts. Similar flavor. Not thick, I’d be okay with it not being classified as an impy stout and more the regular garden variety. Pretty good beer.
CLW (16859) reviewed Near & Dear from Brewmaster Jack 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 oz. bottle shared by Willrunforbeer. Black color with a tan head. Great aroma of roast, lots of chocolate,vanilla, wood, coffee beans. Sweet flavor with chocolate, cocoa, caramel, whiskey, coffee, vanilla, roast, light spicy note. Full-bodied, rounded. Pretty decent for a non-barreled aged stout.
AdamChandler (5745) reviewed Near & Dear from Brewmaster Jack 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
12oz, pours black, some tan brown head. licorice, smoke, chocolate. Smokey, dense, thick, a mild carbonation with a spicy burnt chocolate and leather.
Chalumeaux (4962) reviewed Near & Dear from Brewmaster Jack 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Poured from bottle thanks Willrunforbeer pours black with a nice coca head. Aromas of roasted chocolate malt coffee and grain. Taste is nice balanced cocoa roast great mouth feel. Well done. --- Beer merged from original tick of Near & Dear on 20 Jan 2017 at 22:00 - Score: 8
CoastGuardVet (6205) reviewed Near & Dear from Brewmaster Jack 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Thinking this was an American Stout, I poured into a becher, woops, so the rest is based on observations. Wish I had another bottle, hmmmm...next time.
The appearance was a sly film of a little white head that dissipated at a nice pace. Sticky super speckled lace running all around.
The aroma blends the roasty coffee beans, subtle clean sweet cocoa beans, sly vanilla bean. Rugged edgy roasty caramel and toffee malts. Light toast.
The flavor starts sweet with a crisp roastiness to it blending the caramel to coffee to cocoa and vanilla bean. All melding nicely right on into the aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with fair sessionable-esque sort of feel as much as any stout could actually give. Carbonation feels good for what it is and fairly low.
Overall, pretty good as a stout and worthy of having again.