Old Mammoth Stout
Buckeye Brewing Company

 

 

 

Appearance: As others have noted, this beer explodes in the glass producing a billowy tan head takes a while to descend onto the black liquid; not much lacing action

Smell: Cocoa and coffee, with both roasty and sweet elements

Taste: Rather sweet, up front, with chocolate and mocha flavors building through mid-palate; the sweetness fades, after the swallow, allowing some roast to balance out the profile

Mouthfeel: Without swirling the beer and letting the head dissipate, the beer is overcarbonated; once the head is gone, the mouthfeel is much better, with a medium to full body and more gentle carbonation

Overall: Carbonation problems seem to plague this brew but, putting that aside, it is a pretty nice beer

From 10/28/11 notes. Thanks to nimbleprop for sharing this one...rumors it might be infected but I didn't really see signs other than the carbonation level.

a - Pours a dark brown, almost black color, with two fingers plus of dark tan head and high carbonation evident. Head lasts for several minutes and leaves light lacing on the glass. The high carbonation and rising head makes me think it may be infected, as we had heard some bottles were.

s - Smells of chocolate, roasted malts, dark chocolate and bitter coffee, light dark fruits. Very nice and no signs of infection.

t - Tastes of chocolate, roasted malts, alcohol, coffee, dark fruits. Again, no signs of infection. A slight step down from the nose due to the alcohol coming through.

m - Medium bodied stout and high carbonation evident. Way too carbonated here, which hurts the mouthfeel quite a bit.

o - Overall a decent stout. I think it may have been on its way to infection, but I didn't sense anything in the nose or taste, just the carbonation. Would like to try it again sometime.

22 oz bomber courtesy of RocPorterFanatic. Pours black with a small cap of light brown head. Average retention and lacing is poor.

Nose is nice...molasses and sugar with some dark roast. Raisiny fruitiness, pretty complex really. I like it.

Taste is roasty, sweet and fruity all at the same time. Interesting mix, but does not quite equal uber-deliciousness. Tasty though, to be sure. I like the rich molasses and fine-ground hop effort - both flavoring and bittering are nice. cocoa powder atop a dripping, roasting marshmallow. Nice brew, this one.

I believe I got this from pimpmyporter. Thanks for the extra.

A: Full on gushing head. It took a solid five minutes to get three inches of beer in my glass. The beers is pitch black with a huge dark mocha head. This looking like it has an infection.

S: Dark roast malt, black coffee, molasses, caramel. It has a bit of a sour kick to it. I'm even more worried about infection now.

T: Yep it's in need of some antibiotics. Dry cocoa, roast malt, a hint of chocolate, metallic finish and a wait for it... sour bite.

M: Light and thin body. Loads of carbonation.

O: Damn this one had some serious promise. I will have to look for another bottle someday.

22 oz bottle split and poured into a New Belgium Globe glass.
No date or information. Called "Mammoth Stout".

Thanks to Beerwolf77 for sharing his tick with me.

A - Holy massive expanding head Batman! Four fingers of fizzy tan head with insane retention and some fingers of lace. Unfortunately, it seems like quite a bit much and could be a sure sign of an infection issue. The beer is pitch black otherwise.

S - Cold coffee presents itself right away with a very uniquely roasted malt backing. Molasses and deep chocolate notes but there's a hint of something off here. A bit metallic, slightly nutty.

T - Pop a handful of cocoa powder in your mouth with a few coffee beans and a sliver of bittersweet chocolate. While you're chewing pop a ball of aluminum foil in too, just for good measure. That's the flavor of this beer.

M - Excessively carbonated with an otherwise smooth and medium-bodied mouthfeel. Cold and metallic to the finish, with a dry and bitter feel.

O - No shame in drain-pouring an infected/bad brew. This one isn't awfully offensive but it's certainly not worth drinking. I'd welcome a second chance at it.

Now just called "Mammoth Stout"

Pours a deep, jet black with two fingers of mocha colored head that drops to a layer of thin foam after a few minutes. Some dark lacing.

Aromas of roasted grains, molasses, no hop aroma to be found.

First sip is of deeply roasted grains, roasted bitterness, some grassy hop bitterness, dark roasted coffee, molasses. Oily. Finish is medium with a roasty bitterness lingering.

Mouthfeel is oily, burnt, and medium bodied. Some prickliness from the carbonation.

Overall drinkability is good. Strong roasted character, but not overdone or too aggressive. Good balance.

Very nice looking beer-deep black with a healthy looking tan head. Rather average aroma. Grainy and roasted thats about all. Heavy roasted flavors with a leaning towards chocolate malt. Mild espresso. Ok mouthfeel-very drying in the finish. Drinkable enough but could use a bit of an umph to make it really stand out. Good enough beer for the price for sure.

Thanks again to Altbock for another gifted brew from his hometown.

Pours an opaque black with a tan head that fills half my 20 oz. nonic. The head recedes slowly without lacing. The large head that forms with each pour gets to be a bit annoying.

The smell is medium roasted malt and a hint of it's taste sweetness.

The taste is somewhat mild but has a steady production of toasted malt. There is chocolate in the flavor plus sweetness but this is mainly about the malt which is OK, it's just not complex in any way.

Mouthfeel is medium but I think there is too much carbonation. When the beer foams up in your mouth the way this one does in the glass it just seems like too much.

Drinkability: There is nothing wrong with this beer that a few tweaks couldn't improve. It wasn't meant to be anything huge, it seems. It is a pleasantly drinkable stout but I don't think it fits the FES style particularly closely. (You do have to give it some credit for holding onto it's huge carbonation throughout the bottle.)

Thanks to miketd, one more in a long line of good BAs, who dropped this into a springtime trade as an extra. A new brewery for me.

Opens with a firecracker 'pop' that foreshadows serious carbonation. The pour takes...forever. Points off! Make me wait for my beer for five minutes & I get cranky. Brown head races for the sky at the slightest provocation. Eventually it takes on a proper black hue. Smell is all about scorched, blackened something or other: extreme roasts leavened with mild chocolate.

Old Mammoth Stout leads with the helmet, which appears to be made of charred, singed, wildfire blasted wood. That was then boiled with charcoal. An engagement of cocoa steps onto the tracks & gets run over, as does a dash of drying, slightly bittering hops. The carbonation is, surprisingly, not terribly distracting - present & accounted for, only slightly detracting from the experience. Although it's making me want to belch, mightily. This bomber was split with my wife, which is fortunate, or I'd be repeating all night.

Overall? Wildly roasted, toasted brew without a lot else going on. But I like roast. Bring it on! Good beer.

Poured into a pint glass.

3.0 A: Black color. First pour was about 8-9 fingers of frothy head. This took forever to fill my glass up. Retention was reasonably good, but not any lacing.

4.0 S: Smells like there's a lot of sourish lactose in here. Soft roastiness with even softer chocolate and molasses. Simple, but nice.

3.5 T: Again, seems like some lactose in here. Second strongest flavors are semi-sweet chocolate, roasted barley, and a touch of molasses. Relatively simple again, but not as nice as in the nose.

2.5 M: Lighter medium body. Way, way, way too much carbonation, but this doesn't surprise based on the pour. It's BMC level carbonation and frankly distracted from my overall enjoyment of the beer. Too carbonated to be smooth.

3.0 D: Not a great beer, but not a bad one either...if the carbonation was fixed.

Bottle split with a friend in tulip glasses' produced a two finger tan head that lasted a while the color of the brew was atypical stout black

I got some good roasted coffee aromas as well as a slight chocolate smell. The flavors of roasted malts were dominant and there was a nice bitter follow up as well. The feel in my mouth was perfect for the style with great carbonation.

This brew drank fine I was left wanting for more it was a good session brew and overall a good stout.

The bottle is now a foreboding black and white version of the same label. Now it looks kick-ass and they save money on color printing. I say good work.

This one is a deep black behemoth. A brown head retains well, forming a dense, sticky pillow for a long time that never really dissipates and leaves plentious lacing in thick patchy spots down the glass.
The smell is hearty and plentiful malts and barley with plenty of coffee and chocolate notes. There's a very light underlying sweetness.
The taste follows suit with the addition of a bitterness that's enough to balance without tipping this away from the stout flavor. The finish lingers dryly with plenty of bittersweet dark chocolate undertones.
The mouthfeel is big and thick, exactly as one would hope to find in a stout. This one's plenty full-bodied with a real smoothness to it.
Besides being plenty tasty, a reasonably low ABV keeps this one very drinkable.

A-pours a beer one shade shy of jet black with a thick and creamy tan colored head. it lingers, wait it doesn't leave. huge lacing left behind

S-the nose isn't small; but not big at all. some roasted malt, dark chocolate, and a touch of coffee bean.

T-the taste brings a touch of the roasted coffee malt, some dark chocolate; but then brings in some hops to balance. citrus and some hop bitterness to close it out.

M-lighter end of medium body, very smooth, and highly carbonated

D-this is quite a nice stout to sip on. it is lighter and brings some good flavor. definitely a stout to drink on.

Poured from tap into clean clear glass earlier today at the brewery, the Buckeye Beer Engine in Lakewood, Ohio.

A Medium to actually near dark brown HEAD over an absolutely black body. Nice lacing after repeated sips as well. Imposing, awesome! 4.5

S Darkest roast malt but not much else, maybe some coffee notes. 4.0

T/M Darkest of roast malts but not very much sweetness. There is a dark roast coffee taste and feel as well, I swear that one one sip I actually got the touch of the coffee grounds. Thick, luxurious, this beer is almost too dark and heavy (if that is possible). 4.0

D Interesting but just so thick. Satisfying but big! 3.5

Another new one to me, I had to at least give it a shot. I chose it as a nightcap and it more then served its purpose on that front. Served cold and poured into a pint glass, this one was consumed on 07/28/2009.

Appearance - Very big pour here, bigger then I thought it would be to be honest. Huge billowing head of tan coming up on this one, literally coming up and out of the glass. Sticky to the sides the entire time it barely faded at all, even as the session wore on. Thick and dark looking with a black as night to it.

Smell - Rich roasted aroma. Lots of cocoa coming through here with a light hint of coffee and peat. As it warms a nice touch of molasses starts to come through the air now as well. Very nicely done I have to say.

Taste - Smooth, molasses and cocoa roll across the tongue from the very onset. Smooth and mellow with a richness that is simply wonderful. Roasted and a touch smoky especially as it wears on. Room temperature brings about a wonderful full feeling; rich and creamy chocolate notes flood the palate and leave a long and lasting mark.

Feel - Rich, a little thinner then a big stout, but this is not an RIS. Still very well put together I have to say with very nice carbonation and a remarkable smoothness to it.

Drinkability - very drinkable, not outrageous with the ABV, and the rich flavors are really very well put together. It was easy to sip your way through this one.

Overall - I thought this was very nicely done. I would have no problem at all with going through this one again. It was very solid and I would love to give it another try. I really think they did an excellent job on this one.

Poured from a 22oz bomber given to me as a gift from my father on a recent visit.

Appearance-Huge head off of a mild pour, two and a half to three fingers of tan head that takes a while to die down and let me finish my pour. Very nice billowing head that gradually settles down to less than a quarter finger before staying and leaving pretty heavy lacing on the side of the glass as I drink. The beer itself is a nice dark black though not completely opaque. The head gives this beer its nice appearance primarily.

Smell-Far more one-dimensional than I'm used to detecting in complex stouts. I primarily pick up on a great deal of roasted malts, along with some boozy sharpness that leads me to think this beer isn't going to be particularly balanced. Some mild sweetness and a little bit of burnt coffee in the nose as well. Not overly impressed with what I perceive as a fairly simple bouquet for this beer, but certainly far from bad.

Taste-Again, have to say that the taste on this one was about what I picked up in the nose for me. Lots of roastiness washes over the tongue, but I notice very little hop bitterness to balance the malt or alcohol. Booziness really comes through for me as well, fairly sharp and prominent. This beer seems to focus mostly on its roasted/malty qualities, but while a decent stout, I didn't find it particularly balanced or able to cover up the alcohol very well.

Mouthfeel/Drinkability-Despite the massive head, the carbonation was not overly aggressive on this beer. However, I was expecting the beer to be a bit heavier and chewy for the style, which left me thinking that the mouthfeel was on the thin side. Drinkability however was not bad and in my mind the beer drank a bit more like a heavy porter than a stout. However, given the one-dimensionality of the smell and taste in my opinion, I probably wouldn't put back too many of these. Splitting a bomber with a friend did me just fine.

Overall, not a terrible stout by any means, but not one that I found overly remarkable.

An extra from a trade with Kirok1999. Thanks again!
Poured from a 22 oz. bomber into a 20 oz. beer mug.

A - Inky smooth black with A mountain of thick, tan colored head. What can I say? It looks like a pint; that almost instinctual look one has in mind when one thinks of beer. In this giant glass mug, it's so perfect it's beautiful.

S - Lots and lots of roasty malt and coffee, with little hoppyness.

T - Bitter roasted malt, coffee, bitter chocolate, but also very slightly milky. Finishes with a decent bit of residual bitterness.

M - The hefty foam gives even more lightness and smoothness to this beer, which already has a silky smooth mouthfeel and good carbonation.

D - The bitterness does get a bit overbearing over time, so I'd definitely recommend sharing it. But even so, I was easily able to finish the bottle, and even though the ABV isn't known, it can't be that high, considering my lack of ill effects after drinking the bomber.

overall - A great American-made foreign-style stout. Roasty, complex, and oh so smooth. Definitely glad to have had a chance to have this one!