Muckle Brewing Moss Stout

Moss Stout

 

Muckle Brewing in Haltwhistle, Northumberland, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Stout Regular
Score
6.26
ABV: 4.3% IBU: - Ticks: 9
Moss is the name used for the peat bogs and mires that scatter the hills and moors of Northumberland. Wrapped in myth and legend the mosses are places of unsure footing and deep, black peat-stained pools. Muckle Moss, a National Nature Reserve, is situated in the undulating cuested landscape of Hadrian’s Wall Country and is a place of Curlew and Snipe, Bog Rosemary and Cotton Grass.

Muckle Moss Stout mirrors the character of the Moss. Rich, dark, aromatic with a good strong head the colour of Cotton Grass.
 

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5.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Bottle from Northumbrian Gifts. Dark ruby red pour with small off white head. A fairly faint aroma of roasted malt and chocolate. Taste again quite simple with bitter roast malts dominating, some chocolate, nuts and light fruitiness. Medium bodied. Doesn't really have the colour of a stout but there is a bitter roastiness. Decent body. Not much else to it though.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Jan 2025 at 03:02


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

500ml bottle as part of a delivery from Northumbrian Gifts. Drunk at home. My first thought is how light and thin it looks. A stout? Are you sure? It is sort of a light reddish brown, mostly clear, with some loose off-white head collecting around rhe edges. Aroma is quite subtle as well, some Earthy notes, a little bit of chocolate. I'm much less underwhelmed when I drink it: it's got some sweet caramel/honey right at first, followed by intense hoppy bitterness which continues to the finish. More Earthy character, maybe a touch of butterscotch, sarsaparilla. Let down a little in the watery body. I feel like it's a beer of two halves: 2.9 followed by 3.7 so I think 3.3 is fair.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Dec 2023 at 17:32


6

Tried on 30 Oct 2021 at 10:53


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

16/5/2018. Bottle from CentrAle, Newcastle. Pours a curiously pale brown colour with an average sized beige head. Aroma of malt, hop, toffee, fruit and light chocolate. Medium sweetness, moderate bitterness. Moderate body, slight oily and watery texture, above average carbonation. Finish of berries with some increasing roasting and bitterness. Grower.

Tried from Bottle on 16 May 2018 at 21:54


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle from Lindisfarne Meadery. Brown with a foamy cream head - bit anaemic-looking by normal stout standards if I'm honest. Tastes of chocolate and sweet malts with some redcurrant; ends with a light roastiness and earth. Somewhere between a brown ale and a stout, maybe, but pleasant enough.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Apr 2018 at 19:26


4.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Bottle thanks to Ashton McCobb. Pours clear dark brown with a thin beige head. Aromas of faint chocolate and red fruit. Taste is sour red fruit, faintest chocolate. Sour finish. Not good.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Jan 2018 at 07:24


5.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle from Taste of Northumbria. Appearance - amber with a nice lacy head. Thought it would be black. Nose - honey and a complete lack of anything resembling stout. Taste - sour red fruit. Burnt malt but no chocolate. Palate - medium bodied with a tangy middle and end. Overall - definitely not a stout. Mis-bottle?

Tried from Bottle on 22 Jan 2018 at 07:23


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Tried at the Nottingham Beer Festival 2017. Black colour with an off white head. Aroma is big roasted malts, taste bitter roasted. Full body.

Tried on 14 Oct 2017 at 16:06


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask (gravity) @ NBF 2017 [ The 42th. Nottingham Beer Festival (The 10th Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival) ], Nottingham Castle, Friar Lane, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 6EB. [ As Muckle Brewing Muckle Moss Stout ]. Light unclear dark brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, roasted, dar malt, wood. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration, dark malt, wood, toasted - roasted. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20171011] 6-3-6-3-12

Tried from Cask on 11 Oct 2017 at 16:49