Mackeson XXX Stout

Brewed by Boston Beer Company
Style: Sweet Stout
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Serve in English pint

Pours a pitch black with tan/dark brown substantial head. Minimum retention and lacing. Smells of brown sugar and burn malts. Right out of the fridge the tastes don’t really come through very well. As the brew warms, however, the sweet brown sugar and espresso flavors come through in a big way. Bitterness was more apparent when it was colder, but dies away as it warms. I could sip this one down fairly quickly, but due to it’s fairly full body I could not have too many in a sitting. Definitely a desert brew, be it with desert or preferably as one. A fine brew overall. Not my favorite stout but it’s, my first of the style...will definitely have to try some more. Reviewed on: 03-05-2007

12 oz bottle. Pours black with a brown 1/4" head. No lace. Aroma is milk chocolate , cocoa and a hint of molasses. Substantial mouthfeel with almost zero carbonation. Heavy bodied. Drank two watching football Sunday afternoon and felt full afterwards. Flavor is sweet milk chocolate. Low alcohol content.

Courtesy of After4ever, thank you Tom. It’s a pitch black beer with a creamy, lasting, nougat colored head. The aroma has loads of smooth and pleasant toffee, dark fruits, chocolate and roasted malt. The flavour has sweetness and loads of mellow and smooth toffee and the rest is possessed by chocolate and dark fruit. As usual I’m a sucker for beers with a low ABV and a lot of flavour, and this is one of them...

Black and oily with a short-lived tan-ring head. Nose of coffee and strong milky malt/ wheat bread, super creamy. Sweet flavor has roast, coffee, graham cracker. A little bitter, this is too watery in the palate. Decent, but not a favorite.

Pours a really nice deep deep brown with a thin tan head. Aroma is a little understated but some nice malt characteristics there. Flavor is very smooth, a little sweet. This is an easy drinking beer. Almost a little dark fruit going on. Tasty.

Pours inky black in color, with a nice half inch of brown mocha head. Smell is roasted malts, a little bit of chocolate and some molasses. Taste is much more chocolate than was in the nose. A good amount of bittering hops and carbonation. Medium body on the mouthfeel. Easy drinking and won’t do too much damage. At around $12 for a twelve pack this is a good tasting beer.

Could drink this one for days! Pours black with a nice tan/brown head that diminishes quickly. Has a nice roasty, chocolate aroma that is rather mild, but smooth. Taste is more complex than I anticipated. It has a nice mix of chocolate, coffee, some mild cherries with a tobacco/cigarette ash finish. Very smooth and creamy on the toungue with a slightly bitter cherry/coffee finish. Would drink again!

Pours an opaque black with brown thin ring of head. Roasty, sweet chocolate, some tobacco leaves? Sweet, dark roast malt, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, cherries. Medium thin body. Delicious. I normally don’t care for sweet stouts, but this was superb.