Southwark Old Stout

Brewed by South Australia Brewing (Lion Nathan Co.)
Style: Foreign Stout
Thebarton, Australia

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

Being from england i was astounded to find a stout like this so far from the mother country. without a shade of doubt the best stout in Australia.

Tap. Exceptional. Aromas of apple, vanilla, coffee, chocolate, caramel, and spices. Taste has a sweet start, with long lasting bitterness. Palate is velvety, with a medium-to-full body. Black, with a frothy off-white head.

Opaque black body, tan head mostly retained with good lace. Bitter dark chocolate flavour (yum) with some alcohol up front. Strong coffee aftertaste with roasty bitterness. This was quite thick also and really first rate.

Great stuff, up there with Coopers in the stout stakes, geez SA makes some good stout.

Re-rate: blabbed on a bit about this before. Alls I wants to say is, this is my fave all time stout. I love it cold or warm, but always in the early AM with a bitch under each arm swaggerin back home for the hay.

Bottle @ Oz’n’NZ tasting 2011. [thanks bluebetty]
Dark brown, bordering on black. Small, creamy, light-beige head. Aroma has roasted malts, liqourice, light astringency. Light to medium carbonation, great dry and creamy palate. Flavour is fantasticly balanced. Dry, bitter, roasted, peat, light smoky, liqourice, grassy. Mildly vinious. Absolutely fabulous.

Thick brown bubbly head on a dark stout,good carbonation.Aroma chocolate,very nice note,caramel,malty aroma,milk,vanilla note.Flavour superb caramel and chocolate malt tastes lovely,mild bitter roasted tastes,yeasty,great on the palate,moccha like flavour.This is the flavour I,ve been looking for in a stout of this type,one sip after another,great stuff.Finish cream malt tasting chocolate,bitter tang on the buds,a stout to really enjoy.

Whoever coined the phrase ’Black is beautiful’ must have had a pint of this stout in front of them. Has a thick toffee colored head. Roasted malt nose. Full bodied, strong coffee and dark bitter chocolate. I’ve a big 750 ml bottle all to myself for only $2.75 (USD), a 500 ml can of Guinness costs $4.75 USD here. I know what I’m buying from now on! To me, this beats Coopers. Very impressive, I look forward to having more brews from Southwark.