New Holland The Poet

Brewed by New Holland Brewing Company
Style: Sweet Stout
Holland, Michigan USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Bottle. Light coffee, chocolate, and licorice aroma. Pours black thin tan lacing. Mild sweet flavor. Full body, creamy texture, roasty finish, mild bitterness. More of a regular stout than sweet stout to me. Decent stout overall.

I really enjoyed this one. It has a sweetness that is very pleasant, and doesn’t have that cloying taste/palate that some stouts can have. Very easy drinking for a stout.

Bottle from Ryan. Poured a blackish brown with medium head. Aroma is caramel, cocoa, toffee biscuit, lactose. Light bitter, light sweetness. Slight chalky. Creamier texture. A solid stout.

This beer pours black with a tan head, and the aroma is muted with hints of roasted malts. The beer is a little bitter and a little sweet, and it has a full creamy texture with a bitter finish.

Aroma is a pleasant mix of oatmeal and loads of bitter chocolate. Chocolate continues into the flavor and the oatmeal becomes more assertive in both the flavor and the ultra-creamy texture. It’s almost like velvet in a glass. Hops come in at the back end and linger. Phenomenal balance with sweetness from the oats and charred malt. Just wonderful.

Dark brown/black pour with a chocolate milk-colored head. Light-to-medium mouthfeel, moderate carbonation. The aroma and taste are similar: medium roast coffee, chocolate, some vanilla, caramel, oatmeal. This stout is smooth, easy to drink, and well balanced; if it didn’t know better, I would suspect that this is a milk stout. A supremely drinkable, quaffable stout.

Aroma is sweet and roasty, a little weak. Pours dark brown with very little head and lacing. Taste is sweet roasted coffee and malts, but pretty thin finish with an average oatmeal coffee aftertaste..

morning beer after my birthday celebrations the night before .. . pours a deep burnt charcoal brown .. strong head, lacing is pretty good .. . light tar, roast, and sweet black coffee .. . light to medium mouth .. . pretty good, a subtle sweetness which i like .. .
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UPDATED: DEC 7, 2012 dark brown pour. aroma is of sweetness and toffee average palate. It is what it says it is - a sweet stout; toffe tast + stout; differnt and good beer.

A rich dark brownish black pour. Nose is chocolate and coffee and quite pleasing. Taste is chocolate and coffee, not overly sweet and has some nice bitterness. Carbonation is soft, texture is heavy. Finish is bitter, nothing outstanding, but drinkable...would have preferred a little more sweetness.Quaff Score 7 / 10