Stout
Sheepscot Valley Brewing Company in Whitefield, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Stout Regular|
Score
7.19
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Growler share with Doug.
My portion was poured into a mug.
The appearance was a black color with a finger’s worth of off-white foamy head. Sustains for a little bit and dies off within a minute to leave some nice messy yet spider webbed lace.
The aroma had a great blend of cocoa and coffee beans to align with some vanilla bean, ash, dark fruits, mild earthiness and a mild cakey sweetness.
The flavor, once again, blends all of those previously mentioned aromas together sweetly with the roast and then some bitterness of coffee grounds roams in nicely. Super nice blended flow into the aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fair sessionability about it. Carbonation feels good. Roastiness feels good on my tongue.
Overall, nicely done stout that I would love to have again.
My portion was poured into a mug.
The appearance was a black color with a finger’s worth of off-white foamy head. Sustains for a little bit and dies off within a minute to leave some nice messy yet spider webbed lace.
The aroma had a great blend of cocoa and coffee beans to align with some vanilla bean, ash, dark fruits, mild earthiness and a mild cakey sweetness.
The flavor, once again, blends all of those previously mentioned aromas together sweetly with the roast and then some bitterness of coffee grounds roams in nicely. Super nice blended flow into the aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fair sessionability about it. Carbonation feels good. Roastiness feels good on my tongue.
Overall, nicely done stout that I would love to have again.
Tried
from Growler
on 10 Feb 2017
at 13:20
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Growler from Downeast Beverage drunk on 8/18/07
Well they’ve done it again….Typical bountiful head, strong retention and lacing in this unfiltered, deep black stout.
Lovely, rich, dry, almost smokey coffee notes from the black malts line the nose, while dry, very enticing vanilla and cream sit in the middle, rounded out by lightly sweet hints of molasses and malted milk. Snappy, fresh yeast esters are lost beneath the dark malt notes, but it still has that lightly musty/earthy smell that I’ve come to love from this brewery. Clean and without any notes of alcohol.
Very much like a dry stout in flavor, though with some chewy caramel-molasses notes that add more body and give it a touch more sweetness than you’d get from a dry stout. Natural carbonation at work in the growler is quite spritzy as always, but fairly tight. It definitely needs some time to breath after pouring, to really let the carbonation come off and concentrate the flavor. Black malts are so dry (though not overly bitter) that they come off as almost flaky, really giving it an authentic feel. Chocolate-covered espresso bean flavor lingers, with burnt coffee on the edges of the palate. Very drinkable, and like the Special Organic and Double Brown, impressively balanced between sweetness and dryness.
Well they’ve done it again….Typical bountiful head, strong retention and lacing in this unfiltered, deep black stout.
Lovely, rich, dry, almost smokey coffee notes from the black malts line the nose, while dry, very enticing vanilla and cream sit in the middle, rounded out by lightly sweet hints of molasses and malted milk. Snappy, fresh yeast esters are lost beneath the dark malt notes, but it still has that lightly musty/earthy smell that I’ve come to love from this brewery. Clean and without any notes of alcohol.
Very much like a dry stout in flavor, though with some chewy caramel-molasses notes that add more body and give it a touch more sweetness than you’d get from a dry stout. Natural carbonation at work in the growler is quite spritzy as always, but fairly tight. It definitely needs some time to breath after pouring, to really let the carbonation come off and concentrate the flavor. Black malts are so dry (though not overly bitter) that they come off as almost flaky, really giving it an authentic feel. Chocolate-covered espresso bean flavor lingers, with burnt coffee on the edges of the palate. Very drinkable, and like the Special Organic and Double Brown, impressively balanced between sweetness and dryness.
Tried
from Growler
on 06 Sep 2007
at 16:30