Marks & Spencer County Carlow Irish Stout

Marks & Spencer
Brewed at Carlow
Style: Dry Stout
London, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Pours a black color with a light tan head. Small head that recedes quickly and leaves little lacing. Roasty, with hints of chocolate and coffee. Sweet chocolate, mixed with coffee and roasted malt. Malty. Doesn’t taste dry, but seems that way from the scents you get mixed in with the taste. Pleasant. Smooth and creamy. Fairly drinkable. The sweet, velvety creaminess makes the beer go down smooth. The pleasant aroma each time it is brought to your mouth also adds to the pleasure. Quite a good beer for a contract beer.

(500ml bottle) This is way drinkable ;simplistic 1 ass dimensional stout but good .Lots of roasted bitterness, chocolaty notes ..with a minty hop bitterness . An eazy drink.

Thanks to my dad for this bottle. Appearance: Cola black with a thin off white head. Aroma: malt, some very light chocolate and coffee, a little wet cardboard too. Flavour: Sweet at first, vanilla, a tiny amount of chocolate, a little roasty in the finish. Not bad.

50 cl bottle, Sheffield, UK. Roasted coffee aroma, bitter espresso flavour. Bitterness follows through on the finish, a faint sweetness and some cherry.

500ml bottle. Pours pitch black with a thin head, that didn’t last. Aroma is faint, but is roasted malt and some licorice. Roasted malt to start. Lots of roasted coffee and some licorice on the dry finish.

Pours almost completely black with a rather large but quickly disappearing head. Malt, toffee and horse aroma. Flavour is coffee, malt and hops with a somewhat watery mouthfeel but a slightly burning aftertaste. Good.

Dark brown, okay pillow of head but not dense enough. Aroma of wet burnt barley and water. Taste is an odd mix of malt and roasted barley, like a half-guinnes half-spiced sout concoction. Doesn’t taste right. Doesn’t work for me.

50cl bottle from M&S Liverpool. Black with dark beige edges, but virtually no head at all. Liquorice style aroma with some roasted malt aroma. I really don’t like liquorice and this is very liquorice-y. So not my favourite stout, and the carbonation makes the mouth feel really thin. Not one of my favourite stouts.

Bottle 500ml.
Clear dark brown color with a large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, coffee, creame vanilla, light to moderate roasted and burnt. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, artificial - cheap commodity. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20091230]

Bottle from marks and sparks. Pours black with a tan head, last a while. Aromas of coffee, chocolate, roasted malts, caramel. Nice nose. Flavours of malts, some hops, coffee, smoke. Finishes dry and hoppy.