Mackeson XXX Stout

InBev UK
Brewed at Carib Brewery
Style: Sweet Stout
Luton, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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330ml bottle. Pours a beautiful dark, dark brown with a good sized mocha coloured head. The nose is coffee meets caramel with some cocoa, biscuit and earthy notes. Thin bodied, and sweet with espresso, mineral notes, caramel, it has an iced coffee thing going on. As I said thin bodied, but it totally works to it’s advantage. I want more now! Easy drinking, and 4.9%. This is pretty great stuff.

Bottle - pours a deep opaque black with a 3 finger puffy mocha cap - mderate retention and good lacing qualities. Aroma is rather undertated but there is enough roasty -lactose tones to leav a definate impression. Flavour has roasty, cocoa, coffee, tastes up front, decernable bitterness but the lactose sweetness comes in in the finish - not cloying but demure. Rather a light body for the style but as a commercial effort this is very decent. I’ll buy more before it vanaishes from the government dairy bar shelves.

Robust coffee and roast malt aromas with some chocolate. Deep black with a syrupy tan head. Sweet coffee and chocolate with some roast bitterness for balance. Full bodied with a sweet finish.

Bottle sample at a tasting at Beer Market. Thanks zvikar. Pours black, opaque with tan head. Sweet sugary chocolate aroma, slightly wooden. Tastes sweet and yet a little dry. Medium body, smooth texture, slightly wooden finish.

Dark pour with a huge espresso head. Aroma of iron and copper. Big mouth that is very creamy. Taste is very sweet. Milky and sugary. Hints of roast balance it out. Some lace. Really nice cascade pour straight from the bottle.

Bottle sample at a tasting at Beer Market. Thanks zvikar. Black with a light brown head. Aroma of milk chocolate, some roastiness, an oxidized note and some cookies. Sweet roasty flavor, a bit sugary, with chocolate, lactose and a bit of caramel. Medium-bodied. A bit too sweet but decent.

3 finger head because I poured some a little fast. Black and can only see a little carbination at bottom hard to see into beer brown head. Smell is a sweet stout. Taste is water(for lower % stout 4 point whatever have a watery taste)plus I get a earthy buttery roastdness a bit some sourness and milk. Taste good but would like it stronger % so the taste can show more and no water tatse is there. Medium-heavy bodied and it’s good but not the best stout. Stout fan here. Cheer’s!!!

Had in Belize from the carib brewery. Aroma very malty and sweet. Not the style of stout I like the most but ok beer. Taste is much like aroma malty,sweet and a touch fruity. Note bottle I had said milk stout?

330 ml can. 12280L6. BB 06/10/13. From Malaysia. Thanks Mark!
Black colour with a big foamy dark tan head. The aroma is Digestive biscuits, mild milky sweetness and toasted malt. The flavour is roasted malt, mild bitterness, marmalade, some sweetness, biscuits and some herbal notes. This is smooth and extremely tasty. Absolutely great milk stout. The can travelled a long way from Trinidad to Malaysia and then again to Finland. But it’s worth of every kilometre. I like this a lot! Creamy and balanced. Wish I had another can.

From notes - Sample pour of deep darkness with short khaki head. Nose is vanilla and dark cocoa, bitter dark chocolate. Notes of vodka and alcohol. Flavor is sweet and malty with smooth chocolate and less noticeable alcohol. Lighter body than I may have wanted.