Mean Old Tom
Maine Beer Company in Freeport, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured Regular|
Score
7.59
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Brewed in honor of the Kleban brothers’ uncle, his magnificent beer can collection, and his spirit for fast cars, tough motorcycles, and mean smiles.
Flavor Profile: Aromas of vanilla, coffee, and roasted cereal with notes of dark chocolate.
Hops: Centennial
Malt: Maris Otter Pale, Chocolate, Caramel 40L, Roasted Barley, Midnight Wheat, Caramel 80L, Flaked Oats
Flavor Profile: Aromas of vanilla, coffee, and roasted cereal with notes of dark chocolate.
Hops: Centennial
Malt: Maris Otter Pale, Chocolate, Caramel 40L, Roasted Barley, Midnight Wheat, Caramel 80L, Flaked Oats
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
500 ml bottle from New Beer Ditributors NYC, shared @ In De Wildeman. Black color. Creamy beige head with pretty good retention. Aroma’s: firm roast, mocha, a bit red fruit. Retronasal it’s roasted, mocha, light vanilla. Flavor is roasty, mocha-ish, light sweet. Medium bodied. Long finish with lots of roast, light bitter. Great stuff!
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jun 2017
at 15:45
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle - Dark roast and some chocolate notes. Deep brown with a decent light beige head. Dark roast, dark chocolate and vanilla. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 May 2017
at 22:57
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
500 ml bottle. Pours a very dark brown with light bubbly head. Aromas of black coffee and dusty roasted malts. Flavors of same with ash and oats. A bit thin. Can’t get much vanilla.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 May 2017
at 22:53
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Dark brown. On the nose, there’s a lot of toastines, nuttiness. Almost has a smoky quality. On the palate, sweet, with a toasty character, and a light molasses. Decent body...maybe a bit thin but the dark sugars are really nie. For me, it’s more of an old ale or maybe a porter, but whatever you call it, a nice dark ale.
Tried
on 25 May 2017
at 22:52
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Draft at Lost & Found. Dark brown/ black pour, small beige head. Aroma is predominantly chocolate and coffee. Taste is sweet and bitter(more sweet though) lingering Pleasantly on the tongue. Body just about right. Can see why this is rated so high.l
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Feb 2017
at 20:25
10/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 10
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 10
Bottle from Crafted in Haymarket Aroma: roasty, vanilla, coffee, chocolate Appearance: black with a tan head Taste: medium sweetness, medium bitterness, Palate: medium body, creamy, soft carbonation, long finish, Delicious
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Dec 2016
at 23:09
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Elegant stout with a salty nose with notes of licorice and a choclaty and dry taste with notes of wood and vanilla. Creamy mouthfeel
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 May 2016
at 12:18
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
500ml bottle thanks to mike. pours out black topped with a fizzy head. nose is ashy roast malts. Taste is more of the heavy roast malts ashy wood fire.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Apr 2016
at 22:00
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Nitro at Doherty’s, 3/19/16.
Huge, dark beige head tops an ebony body. Strong retention, of course. Indeterminable clarity.
Trying to smell through/around the thick nitrogenated head is annoying, but I do get some dough, plaster, dark, bitter chocolate and light vanilla notes. Smells pretty standard stout-like, with a bit of marshmallow or grassy character in there too. Light coffee and cola notes with warming. No alcohol or flaw.
Nicely attenuated with real vanilla flavor and deep, burnt, bitter roast providing rich coffee and cacao flavors. Vanilla beans add light bitterness as well (and of course the vanilla flavor), while there’s some green, juicy, somewhat citric hop character on the end. I guess the nitro makes it more drinkable on account of it making it more watery/loose in texture, but I certainly prefer it much more not on nitro. Great beer, though. Hoppy, but not overdone there and very dry.
Huge, dark beige head tops an ebony body. Strong retention, of course. Indeterminable clarity.
Trying to smell through/around the thick nitrogenated head is annoying, but I do get some dough, plaster, dark, bitter chocolate and light vanilla notes. Smells pretty standard stout-like, with a bit of marshmallow or grassy character in there too. Light coffee and cola notes with warming. No alcohol or flaw.
Nicely attenuated with real vanilla flavor and deep, burnt, bitter roast providing rich coffee and cacao flavors. Vanilla beans add light bitterness as well (and of course the vanilla flavor), while there’s some green, juicy, somewhat citric hop character on the end. I guess the nitro makes it more drinkable on account of it making it more watery/loose in texture, but I certainly prefer it much more not on nitro. Great beer, though. Hoppy, but not overdone there and very dry.
Tried
on 25 Mar 2016
at 18:05
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap into shaker pint glass at Jimmy’s Culpeppers. Appearance is dark brown, almost black, pour with finger-width foamy light brown head, decent retention, fair lacing. Aroma is roasted malts with strong dark fruits, some cocoa, and milder vanilla. Taste is as aroma. Palate is medium bodied with light, creamy texture, average carbonation. Overall, not the most complex offering in the world but very strong at what it is.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Mar 2016
at 20:50