The Local Stout
Ship Bottom Brewery
- From:
- Ship Bottom Brewery
- New Jersey, United States
- Style:
- English Stout
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.88 | pDev: 9.79%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 13, 2025
- Added:
- Nov 12, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Brewed in Collaboration with The Local Market using their Papua New Guinea Coffee that provides a sweet creamy flavor and low acidity. Leaving notes of Coffee, Almond Butter, Chocolate, Oatmeal, and a creamy mouth feel.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by dacrza1 from New Jersey
4.23/5 rDev +9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.23/5 rDev +9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
DATE: January 22, 2022... OCCASION: finishing the "Jerry basketball weekend" with three wins in four tries and a "local" stout that hopefully packs more than a few of my favorite flavors of the genre... GLASSWARE: Samuel Smith pint... jet black body offers no light through it... a creamy, thick, dark beige head mellows to a thick froth... roasted oats, coffee bean, peat, light chocolate, and fragrant nicotine... this is a sweet-smelling combination that is winning... its mouthfeel is creamy, lactic and yet textured enough to suggest hops at the teeth... a lingering presence, but none too invasive... the profile is as promised, with the roasted oats and coffee pleasing at the teeth and with each exhale... chocolate hints take any excess bitterness... this brings a big flavor experience, with an ABV that encourages multiple glasses in a sitting...
Jan 23, 2022
Reviewed by JerzDevl2000 from New Jersey
3.75/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
This was another beer that I picked up at Gary's recently and never had before. It sounded good based on the flavors that were in this but for some reason, I couldn't detect most of them. Sure, the coffee base is here and this checked off all of the proverbial boxes that qualified it as an English Stout but in the end, this was pretty nondescript as it easily went down and felt just as much as a Coffee or Breakfast Stout.
Not surprisingly, this had a dark pour to it that looked more like a Porter than a Stout. A lively, mocha head topped this off but once that settled, there wasn't much of any lacing to be seen aside from a few scattered bubbles near the top of my pint glass. Roasted malt and coffee were in the nose as the oatmeal emerged a bit in the taste, giving this beer the body that it desperately needed. A hint of almond, cream, and bitter chocolate rounded out the feel of this but it was the oatmeal and roasted malt in tandem that served as this beer's hallmark, as the carbonation was light and the hops practically unnoticeable.
The same could be said for the alcohol, as I couldn't discern any of that in this. No date on the bottom of the can although this looked and tasted fresh as there wasn't any sediment in the liquid, or at the bottom of my glass when I finished this off. Not a bad beer to kick back with, on a cool winter's night such as this...
Jan 18, 2021Not surprisingly, this had a dark pour to it that looked more like a Porter than a Stout. A lively, mocha head topped this off but once that settled, there wasn't much of any lacing to be seen aside from a few scattered bubbles near the top of my pint glass. Roasted malt and coffee were in the nose as the oatmeal emerged a bit in the taste, giving this beer the body that it desperately needed. A hint of almond, cream, and bitter chocolate rounded out the feel of this but it was the oatmeal and roasted malt in tandem that served as this beer's hallmark, as the carbonation was light and the hops practically unnoticeable.
The same could be said for the alcohol, as I couldn't discern any of that in this. No date on the bottom of the can although this looked and tasted fresh as there wasn't any sediment in the liquid, or at the bottom of my glass when I finished this off. Not a bad beer to kick back with, on a cool winter's night such as this...
Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania
3.88/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.88/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Ship Bottom Brewery "The Local Stout"
1 pint can without production codes or freshness dating
$3.29 @ Total Wine & More, Cherry Hill, NJ
Notes via stream of consciousness: So this is a collaboration with The Local Market & Kitchen which is 7 miles up the strand in Long Beach. I'm not sure what the connection is as I don't smell or taste coffee (well, not real coffee) in the beer, and there's nothing on either of the companies websites. I sometimes wonder what collaboration beers are all about. Anyway, it's poured an opaque black body that gives barely a glimmer of dark mahogany brown at the base of the glass when held to the light. The head is a finger-thick cap of dark tan foam that holds fairly well and leaves some nice lacing behind. In the nose I'm finding some fruitiness, some dark malt, a hint of roastiness, and just the suggestion of dark bittersweet chocolate. It's clean, and I can't complain. On to the taste... well that's a lot fuller and much more complex. I'm getting chocolate, an apple and berry-like yeasty fruitiness, some coffee, some actually grainy maltiness (or is that oats?), a bit of grassy and leafy hops, some nuttiness, and the lightest touch of toffee and golden to medium dark caramel. There's a touch of acidity to it from the dark malts but it remains balanced, and a median bitterness brings it to a dry finish with some passing leafy hops and a lingering ashy roastiness. It's 5.5% ABV and you can sense that, making it a pretty standard stout, and maybe even a stronger one in the UK. In the mouth it's medium bodied and smooth with a moderate, fine-bubbled carbonation. In the end I have to say that I like it, and I feel it's pretty well balanced and rounded. The lacing that appeared at the beginning of the glass did not hold up, nor did the head, but that doesn't hurt its score too badly.
Review #6,781
Nov 12, 20191 pint can without production codes or freshness dating
$3.29 @ Total Wine & More, Cherry Hill, NJ
Notes via stream of consciousness: So this is a collaboration with The Local Market & Kitchen which is 7 miles up the strand in Long Beach. I'm not sure what the connection is as I don't smell or taste coffee (well, not real coffee) in the beer, and there's nothing on either of the companies websites. I sometimes wonder what collaboration beers are all about. Anyway, it's poured an opaque black body that gives barely a glimmer of dark mahogany brown at the base of the glass when held to the light. The head is a finger-thick cap of dark tan foam that holds fairly well and leaves some nice lacing behind. In the nose I'm finding some fruitiness, some dark malt, a hint of roastiness, and just the suggestion of dark bittersweet chocolate. It's clean, and I can't complain. On to the taste... well that's a lot fuller and much more complex. I'm getting chocolate, an apple and berry-like yeasty fruitiness, some coffee, some actually grainy maltiness (or is that oats?), a bit of grassy and leafy hops, some nuttiness, and the lightest touch of toffee and golden to medium dark caramel. There's a touch of acidity to it from the dark malts but it remains balanced, and a median bitterness brings it to a dry finish with some passing leafy hops and a lingering ashy roastiness. It's 5.5% ABV and you can sense that, making it a pretty standard stout, and maybe even a stronger one in the UK. In the mouth it's medium bodied and smooth with a moderate, fine-bubbled carbonation. In the end I have to say that I like it, and I feel it's pretty well balanced and rounded. The lacing that appeared at the beginning of the glass did not hold up, nor did the head, but that doesn't hurt its score too badly.
Review #6,781
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