Mersea Island Brewery Oyster Stout

Oyster Stout

 

Mersea Island Brewery in East Mersea, Essex, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Stout - Oyster Regular
Score
6.58
ABV: 5.0% IBU: - Ticks: 21
With three dozen freshly shucked oysters added to the beer towards the end of the boil, chocolate and roasted malts are used to created the rich flavour and oats to give the beer its thick body.

NB - “Oyster Ale” is a different recipe.
 

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6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Cask at GBBF Saturday, 13/08/2016. A opaque black coloured pour with a lasting fading tan head. Aroma is sweet toasted nuts, milky roast, berries. Flavour is composed semi sweet and milky roast, nutty, milky faint fruity berry. Palate is rounded semi sweet, decent cask condition, tangy finish. Ok.

Tried from Cask on 13 Aug 2016 at 05:52


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

Cask gravity at 4th Chappel Winter Beer Festival. Black, with a big head. Quite a tang to it, rich and full bodied.

Tried from Cask on 09 Mar 2013 at 08:55


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Cask at GBBF 2011, Day 2. Pours brown-black with a dense, foamy, light tan head. Faint roast aroma with some lactic sugar notes. Light sweet flavor, some tangy malts, light roast, faint brine. Light to medium in body with fine carbonation. Tangy finish, faint sourness, mild roast. Not bad.

Tried from Cask on 08 Sep 2011 at 15:39


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

One-third pint, cask, at the Vane Bar, GBBF’11. Good looking appearance that’s consists of a fawn-coloured head on a near-black body content. Anise and malts to the nose. Salty liquorice in flavour added by dark malts. Roasted bitter endnotes. Tasty and well bodied (London, 04.08.2011).

Tried from Cask on 08 Sep 2011 at 11:49


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

Cask@GBBF2011. Black colour, small brown head. Aroma is roasted malts, some toffee, mild ashes, freshly cut wood and mild floral notes. Flavour is liquorice, mild fruits and some wooden and floral notes as well.

Tried from Cask on 10 Aug 2011 at 06:24


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

Bottled. A deep red-brown beer with a thin brown head. The aroma has notes of sweet and roasted malt, as well as caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of sweet and roasted malt as well as nuts, leading to a dry bitter finish. The body is light.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Jan 2011 at 13:07


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

4th November 2008. Very dark brown beer. Smooth but thinnish stout. Tangy start with a light smoky streak. Unusually a little coca cola before the semi dry finish.

Tried on 24 Jan 2010 at 08:10


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

Bottle 50cl.Clear dark brown color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is light heavy malty, roasted, burnt, coffee. Flavor is light heavy chocolate sweet and bitter with a long duration, salty notes and a dry finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090724]

Tried from Bottle on 02 Oct 2009 at 02:54


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

Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of madmitch76. Pours a hazy dark brown with a vague orange hue and a small, rough beige head. Aroma of licorice and some hard roasted malt. Medium body, hard roasted malt, dried fruit and licorice. Fairly malt bitter finish. 240709

Tried from Bottle on 16 Sep 2009 at 13:44


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

50 cL bottle. Pours dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is light caramelish and roasted malt aroma. Mild roasted malt body. Roasted and light breadish malt flavoured. Subdued bitterness and roasted flavour into the finish.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Jul 2009 at 12:10