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North Coast Old Stock Ale

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99
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bottled
common

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common

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
12623.89/5.03.89/5.0Winter12.5%92.4Snifter
Commercial Description:
As a continuation of North Coast Brewing Co.’s commitment to quality, our Old Stock Ale is crafted in the tradition of our critically acclaimed Pranqster Belgian Style Golden Ale and Old Rasputin Imperial Stout. It’s brewed with classic floor-malted Maris Otter Pale Malt and Fuggles Hops imported from England, so it’s a beer to be served proudly. Like a fine wine, North Coast’s Old Stock Ale is intended to be laid down. With an original gravity of over 1100 and a generous hopping rate, Old Stock Ale is well-designed to round-out and mellow with age. North Coast Brewing Co. Old Stock Ale is a vintage dated ale. We produce a small quantity each year and it remains available from release date until our stock is depleted.

pre-2006 ABV: 11.4%.
2006 vintages: 11.6% & 13.25%.
2007 vintage: 11.7%.
2008 vintage: 12.5%.
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 Ramenen (453), San Salvador, El Salvador
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/515/20
Sep 22, 2009  
Thanks to ghawener. A pleasently, potent brew. A lot of bourbon like characteristics, sweet, fruity and woody. However, unlike bourbon, in this beverage we can truly enjoy the magic of hops!!


 kiefdog (1585), Tampa, Florida, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/515/20
Sep 20, 2009  
2008 bottle from Knightly Spirits (Orlando, FL). Pours a dark amber to almost cola brown with one finger foamy off-white head that settles slowly and laces the glass. Aroma is sweet and malty with notes of ripe dark fruit, hefty malts, caramel, light notes of toffee, alcohol. Flavor is sweet and malty with notes of chocolate, caramel,. ripe dark fruit, toffee, wood, light boozy almost bourbon notes. Generally medium body with a boozy malty finish. Nice BW.


 Hopper (295), San Antonio, Texas, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/58/104/516/20
Sep 15, 2009  
2008 bottle. An unclear brown beer with little head. The aroma is sweet & alcohol. The taste is sweet, malty, light fruits, caramel, & alcohol. Surprisingly smooth for 12.5% & aging has done this beer good. The flavors are more up front & potent when having it fresh but with some age those same flavors have smoothed out & has become more of a balanced beer.


 Frovigalning (404), , Sweden
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/102/56/103/513/20
Sep 13, 2009  
It poured a dark amber liquid with a very small foam that left no lacing. It had a smell of sweet caramell, very malty and some warm alcohol. It had a strong taste of malt, caramell, fruits with an alcoholic finnish. It was also fairly dry.


 Beardface (984), Eugene, Oregon, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/105/517/20
Sep 7, 2009  
12 oz bottle from Market of Choice. Poured a deep brown with a very light chunk of tan head. Aroma is very pleasant, a mixture of vanilla, oak, caramel and molasses. Flavor was potent with caramel, molasses, vanilla, light bit of oak and a hit of booze that isn’t unpleasant at all. Palate was very smooth, this is a pretty easy drinking barleywine. Very tasty.


Systembolaget (11), Malmoe, Sweden
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/515/20
Sep 6, 2009  
2009 version in a bottle. Pours a dark reddish brown colour with a medium large light brown head. Aroma is caramel, toffee, leather and hints of iron. Flavor is malty with caramel, syrup, toffee, raisins and liquorice. After a while a small hoppy bitterness is recognizable behind the other flavors. Not bad but a bit to sweet for me.


Ygberg (98), Sweden
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/105/57/104/515/20
Sep 6, 2009  
Aroma of malt, toffe and cherrys. The apperance is nicly red with a medium head. Tha flavor is of toffe and is bitter and sweet at the same time. The beer has overall a bit to weak aroma and the alcohol i shining threw but is still a very good beer.


 LanceUppercut (121), Sweden
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/516/20
Sep 6, 2009  
It pours a beautiful deep red color. The faint aroma is of cherries, toffee and malt.Taste is spicy, bitter and sweet, and contains toffee, malt, cake dough and caramel. Alcohol shines through a bit in the finish. This is the way I want my barley wine! Not overly bitter and without the malty notes coming through, as in this years bigfoot. Since it’s already enjoyable fresh, I’d wager it’d be fantastic after a year or so in the cellar.



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