Stock Ale 2021
Machine House Brewery in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.73
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fiulijn (28382) reviewed Stock Ale 2021 from Machine House Brewery 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Tasting at Matt's, bottle; bottled December 2020
Dark amber colour; the bottle is gushing. Intense aroma of bourbon; vanilla, malt. The body is getting thinner, I suspect there has been an infection here (not an Old Ale acidification), eating up those sugars thinning the body, adding acidity, some Brett character, and adding much carbonation.
Rough, not completely disgusting, but this is definitively infected.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Stock Ale 2021 from Machine House Brewery 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
500mL bottle, pours a deep dark amber brown with a large beige head. Aroma brings out bourbon barrels, dark fruits, and brown sugar. Flavour is gently tart, with bready malt, toasted caramel, a little bourbon, and just a touch of tartness. Malty, barrel-heavy and just tart enough to be to style. Pretty reasonably brewed to style. Not the most complex of the style, but for a non-English-brewed English Strong Ale, this is solid.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Stock Ale 2021 from Machine House Brewery 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Amber, and hazy. On the palate, it's got some fruity tartness, lots of barrel. Deep maltiness. Medium body. A bit fizzy, but I like the deep fruit notes. Hit of alcohol in the finish. But really, there's good things but something missing. Maybe needs to be rounded out a bit, which probably should have happened in the barrel but didn't.