Farmhouse Stout
Long Trail Brewing Company in Bridgewater Corners, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Stout Regular|
Score
6.61
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from the mixed 12 pack from Market Basket Pours a solid dark brown with garnet at the edges and a huge tightly bubbled tan head that takes forever to recede. Lightly roasty with bits of caramel and chocolate and some light earthy and dark pitted fruit. Pretty solid sweet creamed coffee on the flavor with hints of earth to round it out. Feels like 1995 but its a pretty good drinkable stout.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours black into an English pint. Mocha head with medium retention recedes to mottle surface. Dark chocolate and espresso aromas.Medium bodied with chocolate and marshmallow upfront turning to sweetened espresso in the lasting finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
This was poured into a nonic pint glass.
The appearance was a dark brown close to black color with a one finger white to off white foamy head that dissipated within less than thirty seconds leaving some light messy clingy lacing ringing it’s way around the glass.
The smell starts off with sweet cocoa lightly trimming into subtle roasty coffee notes and then allowing an ever so slight rye (not sure if that was intentional but I do smell it).
The taste was sweet and roasty acting upon the subtle rye in a sweet sort of way. Everything combines nicely and leads on into a sticky sort of aftertaste. There’s a dry sweet cocoa to rye finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. The carbonation rests nicely on my tongue allowing a nice sweet smooth semi-creamy feel.
Overall, I say this was a pretty good American stout that I would have again. Not sure where I’m getting the rye, if it’s intentional or not but if it is, it does make a nice addition in the flavor.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4
Bottle in pint glass from Downtown Discount Beverage in Dover, NH. Aroma is some chocolate, coffee, and anise but mainly a kind of burnt earthiness (when I was a kid, I burnt some bird droppings with a magnifying glass and one of the two I had smells almost exactly like that). Appearance is very dark mahogany--almost opaque, with zero head and lacing. Taste is much like aroma with finish that is yeasty sour before lingering burnt taste. Palate is light bodied and thin with absent carbonation. Overall, I had high hopes for this as I really enjoyed the Farmhouse IPA collection. One of the bottles I had was bad and the othre somewhat disappointing--we’ll see with the remaining bottle.