Ostara
Galway Bay Brewery in Oranmore, Galway, Ireland 🇮🇪
Stout - Dry Regular|
Score
7.09
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This March we dove into our recipe notebooks looking for ideas to inspire the ultimate session-able stout recipe. Here is Ostara Stout our take on the concept of 'Dublin Stout'. Brewed to be complex but quaffable. We took some of our imperial stout tricks and adapted them to a lower ABV base recipe. The result has layered malts with some lovely soft chocolate notes finished with a nice hop zing to help clean the palate. Sláinte
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7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught @ Delaneys. Pours black with a creamy beige head . Good roast, coffee and Chocolate. Super Smooth and Dry. Delicious session Quaffer. 3.8.
Tried
on 17 Mar 2026
at 18:52
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
440ml. can. @"Home", Compostela. 11/03/2026
[#8.968 Global - #178 Ireland - #23 Galway Bay Brewery]
Pours black with a beige head. Good lacing. Aroma: roasted earthy malts, coffee beans and some liquorice. Taste: medium roasty and coffeish. Light bodied.
Next one, please!
[#8.968 Global - #178 Ireland - #23 Galway Bay Brewery]
Pours black with a beige head. Good lacing. Aroma: roasted earthy malts, coffee beans and some liquorice. Taste: medium roasty and coffeish. Light bodied.
Next one, please!
Tried
from Can
on 11 Mar 2026
at 19:11
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 6
Black with a beige head. Honestly, not a ton going on here. Some roasted notes, chocolate, earth. But everything is very light in character. If this was bumped up a notch or two it would be much better.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Mar 2026
at 18:50
6.8/10
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Dec 2025
at 21:19
6/10
On tap @ Mikkeller bar CPH airport. Dark brown body under a beige head. Promising aroma and taste with typical dry stout qualities, but unfortunately there is a certain sourness that I assume is not intended. Might be a bit off.
Tried
on 27 Oct 2025
at 10:23
8.6/10
Chocolate, coffee, smooth and creamy
Tried
on 22 Oct 2025
at 20:33
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Nitro tap at Ammutsøn. Black, brown thick cream. Medium body, very creamy. Lively dry chocolate notes, enough sweetness, dry grain roast without harshness. Lovely, super drinkable and very enjoyable.
Tried
from Draft
at
AmmutsØn
on 19 Oct 2025
at 17:13
7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 8.5
Texture 10
Overall 7
Tap as nitro at Ammutsøn. Dark, cappuccino head. Coffee chocolate and cream, coconut vanilla, but not the artificial one. Soft fluffy and light, chocolate mouse. Nitro is the best. Nitroooo!
Tried
from Draft
at
AmmutsØn
on 19 Oct 2025
at 17:10
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
Color castaño muy oscuro, prácticamente negro, opaco, espuma beige cremosa, compacta de buen encaje y retención. Aroma y sabor con tonos chocolate, café expreso, pan quemado, malta tostada, cuerpo medio, trago fácil y agradable. Muy disfrutable
Tried
from Can
on 17 Sep 2025
at 22:22
6.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Creamy off-white good mostly lasting head. Black colour. Moderate malty and hooppy aroma. Moderate bitter flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. Creamy palate.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Sep 2025
at 11:48