Old No. 38 Stout
North Coast Brewing Company in Fort Bragg, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Dry Regular|
Score
7.03
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle from West Side. Pours a deep brown to black with a small finger of foam that dissipates quickly. Dark malt, coffee and deep prune on the nose. Dry on the palate with some light dark fruit notes alongside more coffee flavors. Dry finish with lingering roasted malt. Definitely punches up in complexity.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pretty standard stout, definitely just an average approach for the style. Nothing off about it, but nothing great that I can see that sets it apart. Kilowatt SF.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle during OT’ers of the year tasting session beer bottle via Stirchley Wines and Sarkynorthener cheers Martin; dark brown pour with a bubbly tan, aroma has chocolate and tangy dark fruit, taste has dark fruits, hint of coffee, smooth mouthfeel, quite nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Tasty little stout from North Coast, small in scope but appreciably focused, refusing to indulge in decadent sweetness yet carrying enough roasted dry mocha love to remain a solid basic dark beer. Buttoned-up at first but gains a strong espresso-laced core as it warms, and the finish brings a firm bitterness tinged with dark chocolate and molasses. Nose seems much more like an Imperial Stout than the actual beer, but we won’t hold that against ol’ 38. Rational, restrained, tasty, like what a good stout used to taste like before we went fuckin’ nuts with the RIS monsters.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle @Bir&Fud Bottega (Rome). Pours deep brown with a medium and persistent off-white/beige head. Aroma of roasted malts, coffee, nuts, light toffee, nice. Flavour is medium roasted malty with a good bitterness, well balanced, quite dry. Medium body, medium to light carbonation. Refined, but I expected something more.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
fles, zwart met fijne bruine kraag. aroma van vanille en chocolade, smaken van cacao, redelijk veel koolzuur, droog, poederachtig, donkere mouten, gerst, gebrande mouten, chocolade, erg waterig, zuur, veel noten, matige body, aards, lijkt wel een bok bier.
Grumbo (24737) reviewed Old No. 38 Stout from North Coast Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle from BottleDog, Holborn, London and shared at the 3rd Ipswich bottle share. Pours almost black with a nice sized beige head. Aroma is malty, sweet, caramel. Light sweetness and light roasted bitterness. Medium+ body and slick smooth texture. Soft carbonation. A well balanced beer. The favouritte of the day.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Classically conceived dry stout from one of the well-respected Californian craft beer pioneers; ingredients list literally says "water, barley, malt, hops, yeast and that’s all", as if they want to make a statement against all those more recent, trendy stouts with special flavorings added... I like the design, almost looks like a classic English bottle and label, like most of North Coast’s bottles. Thick, frothy, beaten egg-like, yellowish hued head leaving a thick coating of membranous lacing all around, blackish appearance but actually a very deep purple-hued bronze, completely translucent (but hardly so and under bright light). Aroma of cold black coffee, coffee beans even, fairly subtle bitter chocolate, soaked bayleaf, beef stock cubes, burnt branches, leather, liquorish candy, mocha, faintly sweetish aromas of horse steak, unripe elderberries, tomato concentrate and stewed white beans, in warming up even something vaguely sweet sherry-like. Soft, initially somewhat neutral onset, shyly revealing dried fruit sweetishness paired with equally subtle umami (beef stock but only vaguely so), underlying roasted barley sourishness pulling things forward to a pleasantly rounded, nutty and toasted bittersweet malt core, gaining confidence in the end with a coffeeish roasted bitterness filling the mouth cavity; under soft carbonation, the mouthfeel is slick and smooth, but full and pleasant, just right for a stout at session strength. Spicy, even slightly tonic water-like hop bitter notes reinforce the roasted bitterness in the end, but that rounded, sweetish, nutty flavor lingers just as well. Dry stout alright, still carrying sweetness to give it balance and rotundity - this is a very appetizing example of its style. Fairly classic in comparison with so many younger West Coast craft breweries, North Coast is still a resounding name for its historical influence alone, and still delivers consistent quality in its (relatively speaking) classically designed beers - not unlike Sierra Nevada, I reckon.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pitch black, tall frothy tan head, receding slowly, heavy lacing. Aroma roasted malts, cocoa, coffee, liquorice, light dark fruits. Smooth taste, medium sweet and bitter, roasted malts, dark chocolate, liquorice, some vanilla fudge, light spicy notes. Dry bittersweet aftertaste, roasted malts, milk chocolate, light fruity touch, spicy hints, chocolate lingers on. Medium body, oily to creamy texture, soft carbonation, very good stout.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Zwart bier met weinig schuim. Smaak is rookig en licht bitter, ietwat zoet met smaak van braam en kers. Smaak blijft lang hangen.