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North Coast Old Stock Ale 3.88 1295

North Coast Old Stock Ale

Percentile
98
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bottled
common

on tap
common

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
12953.89/5.03.88/5.0Winter11.5%92.3Snifter
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%.
2009 vintage: 11.5%.
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 thebeertourist (2921), Oslo, Norway
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/515/20

Mar 12, 2006  
2005 bottle at T.H. Brewster. Hazy, reddish-brown colour with a nice little beige head. Delicious fruity, port-like aromas. Raisiny. Noticeable alcohol. Intense fruity flavours, with a lot of raisins. Sweet, but good balancing bitterness, ending dry. Warming alcohol, full-bodied, medium carbonation. A wonderful barley wine.

 gunnar (633), Sandnes, Norway
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/512/20
Feb 7, 2010  
Bottled at Cardinal, Stavanger. Pours dark amber with a huge head. Aroma and taste are plums, raisin, malt, yeast, caramel and hops. Excellent long light bitter finish.


 HenrikSoegaard (4526), Randers, Denmark
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/513/20
Feb 7, 2010  
Bottle. 2009 vintage. Creamy off-white fair mostly deminishing head. Light amber colour. Moderate malty and light hoppy aroma. Light sweet and bitter vinius flavor. Average moderate bitter cloying finish. Very alcoholic. Oily palate. Boring Barley wine.


 waltersrj (101), Washington, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/514/20
Feb 4, 2010  
Nuts, dried citrus fruits, candy, and barley in the nose. The taste is similar with a good amount of hops and barley balancing eachother. The pour was a deep mahogany with an off white head. Interesting beer.


 ttutony (129), Galveston, Texas, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Feb 2, 2010  
2008 vintage. Deep mahogany color in the glass. Complex aromas of nuts, dried fruit, caramel, and sweet malt. Weighs heavy on the palate, probably a function of the massive 12.5% ABV. Still, the alcohol is well concealed within the rich maltiness of this beer.


 abemorsten (234), Randaberg, Norway
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/512/20
Jan 30, 2010  
2009 vintage. Murky orange brown with a large frothy tanned head. Aroma of dried fruits, bubble gum, vanilla and alcohol. Taste is sweet and heavy alcoholic. Medium to full bodied with soft carbonation. This is heavy stuff! (Bottle@Olympen, 23.1.2010)


 dwaggs2 (584), Lee’s Summit, Missouri, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/103/515/20
Jan 29, 2010  
2008 Bottle. Poured a cloudy amber color with hardly no head. Aroma was molasses, candy, and malts. Medium sticky body. Sweet flavor, with molasses and other sugars. Some very mild bitters in the finish. Very good beer.


 Teege (205), Orlando, Florida, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/517/20
Jan 26, 2010  
Draft at redlight redlight. Pours a dark amber with a tight light tan head. Strong notes of brown sugar and molasses as well as a lot of booziness on the nose. The flavor is sweet and sharp with a definite pungency. Some liquorice in the aftertaste. Really not very good until it warms, but then it is very nice.


 redlight (1562), Winter Park, Florida, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/517/20
Jan 25, 2010  
2009 draft @ redlight redlight. Very rich caramel aromas with spicy earthy hops with hints of cherry and vanilla. Pours a reddish amber with a thick white head. Caramel and dark fruits, figs and dates, with hints of molasses with an earthy bitterness. Very nice this year.



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