Intents & Purposes
Mast Landing Brewing Company in Westbrook, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Stout Regular|
Score
6.40
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Intents & Purposes is a Foreign Export Stout brewed in the traditional style. A roasty, slightly dry stout with notes of dark fruit and cocoa - a perfect beverage for a slightly chilly day, but without soaring into the imperial stout ABV range. Beers like this originated in the UK so we're excited to put our New England take on it.
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Reviewed from notes.
Can to English pint glass.
Appearance: dark brown close to black in color with a finger's worth of khaki foamy head which dissipated nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: dark chocolate, earthiness, some coffee roastiness, light caramel/toffee malts, subtle dark fruits and a little bit of sweet wafers
Flavor: meshes the prior noted aromas to a fine sweet to roasty quality with a light note of bitterness underneath; finishes semi-dry and roasty
Texture: light to medium bodied - maybe a touch closer to light bodied, slightly sessionable, light smoothness but a good amount of roastiness laying the law down on the tongue
Overall: the aromas and flavors are there and a good deal of roast on the tongue but this needs a bit "beefing" up on the body.
Can to English pint glass.
Appearance: dark brown close to black in color with a finger's worth of khaki foamy head which dissipated nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: dark chocolate, earthiness, some coffee roastiness, light caramel/toffee malts, subtle dark fruits and a little bit of sweet wafers
Flavor: meshes the prior noted aromas to a fine sweet to roasty quality with a light note of bitterness underneath; finishes semi-dry and roasty
Texture: light to medium bodied - maybe a touch closer to light bodied, slightly sessionable, light smoothness but a good amount of roastiness laying the law down on the tongue
Overall: the aromas and flavors are there and a good deal of roast on the tongue but this needs a bit "beefing" up on the body.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Mar 2026
at 11:36
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can. Pours dark brown with a tan head. Roasted malt, dark chocolate, ashy notes, a bit thin overall.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Apr 2023
at 07:17
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can (10/7/22) pour from Andover Classic Wines. It's a dark, dark brown-mahogany with nice sparkle, 1/2 finger-width fizzy light brown head with poor retention and no lacing. Aroma is intense roasted earthy malt/coffee, dark chocolate, brown sugar. Taste is roasted malt but not to extent of aroma, minerals, late hint of cocoa. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with thick texture, average carbonation and crisp, dry finish. Overall, not my favorite stout style but OK.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Dec 2022
at 03:19
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 2
Overall 6
16 oz can in a trade with tfontana. Thanks much! Aroma is dark chocolate, bitter roasted coffee and earthy grain. Flavor follows with an extremely thin, damn near watery body. No carbonation issues or overly astringent character. However, the body is so thin that there really is no depth of malt character whatsoever. A swing and a miss here.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Dec 2022
at 22:23
4.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Canned 10/7/22, drunk 10/24/22. Undetermined clarity, probably clear, dark chocolate with a rapidly dissipating, tan head. Smells rather beany and not as much coffee bean so much as baked bean...Dark chocolate but also light glue....bitter, astringent roast... Rather bland, kind of gluey and bitter. Not sure what's going on here, but there's just a bean and glue character dominating this and the texture is weirdly fluffy and over-carbonated. In addition, it's thin with poor malt depth. Seems like, at the very least, this has too much black malt, but there's more problems here than just that.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Oct 2022
at 00:18