Mash House Stout

Brewed by The Mash House Restaurant & Brewery
Style: Stout
Fayetteville, North Carolina USA

Serve in English pint

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From notes 7/14/03: Pours virtually jet black...until you lift it to drink, and you see ruby red along the edges in the light. Creamy tan head, mainly due to the nitro tap. Aromas are of this morning’s robust coffee. Smells very nice. The taste follows along with roasted coffee, with the slightest hint of chocolate in the background. A healthy 36 IBU for this beer, a mere 11 points below their monster IPA! Spicy! A fairly hefty stout for what’s available in NC. The nitro gives it a feel that I could do without. I usually do not abhor a nitro draft, but this beer had too much artificial "nitro-ness" about it.

On tap at Draft, Raleigh. Better than the porter to me, a nicely dry session stout that goes well with the cow and bison slung here. Handsome dark pour with a fluffy tan head. It still could use a slightly more emboldened body, but the mouthfeel is full and a nice combination of creamy and chalky. Good balance of smooth chocolate and dry roasted malts with an understated hop presence.

On tap at Tribeca Tavern in Cary. Pours a very black color with red highlights and a nice foamy tan head. This stout has clearly evident chocolate, coffee, and licorice aromas. The mouthfeel is very creamy. Taste is lots of chocolate, coffee, licorice and oats with a slightly dry finish. Not a bad brew for a $3 tap special. Tasty.

Serving: Draft at the Twisted Fork in Raleigh. It pours pretty much pitch black with a creamy, tan head. Nice lacing left behind. The nose is very muted with slight roasted malt notes coming through. The taste is a bit weak and watery with over roasted malt, husk, and an odd dry finish. Not as much flavor as it should have. A light to medium body leading to a dry, roasty finish. It seems to be served on nitro which reallys seems to have blunted all aspects of this brew. Not good in a case where there probably wasn’t much to begin with. Skip this one.

Dark with a nice head. Creamy body with a malty taste. Very decent porter. especially good on draft at the Mash House itself. Would definitely recommend.

Date: 12/18/2006
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

very dark ruby, lasting fine tan head, good lace, creamy body, nice creamy roasted flavor, touch of milky sweetness, light bitterness in the finish, an easy drinking stout

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.1/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: *4

on Nitro-pours a light brown head that laces and black color with effervescence. Aroma is dark malt-coffee. Taste is dark malt-coffee/chocolate, hint of bitterness, slight acidic, smooth. Mild carbonation.

Draft pint at the brewpub; dark, dark brown with a big quality head that disapated slowly. this is a bit sweet, and unfortunately a bit watery. There’s nothing to it and it was a major letdown after the two outstanding porters. (#2809, 4/21/2007)

draught. Pours deep dark red with a cascade and a very even, level tan head. The brew, though not potently aromatic, has indetifiable chocoalte and oat scents. The mouthfeel is very creamy and coating. Walls of lacing are left on the glass as I drink. Plenty of dense chocolate, coffee, and oats are beheld with a slightly dry finish. I really enjoyed this one, perhaps it was my favorite.

Draught sample at the brewpub, on nitro. Pretty, thick jet pour with a lasting creamy dark head and fine lacing....cocoa powder, roasted and lightly singed barley and dried licorice in the appealing if subdued nose....lots of licorice in a fairly dry, vinous and rather too sour body, dark malts help save it and a pretty full and strong body for a nitrogenated pour....some dry woody hops creep in at the finish.