All Out Stout
Bridge Brewing Company

 

 

 

 

Beautiful large off-white foam fills the Stella Artois goblet. Dark brown brew. Sudsy mouthfeel. Slight sourish burnt flavor dominates the aftertaste.

Some malty sweetness and a touch of caramel. A little winey. Otherwise it's dark flat grain with a charred finish. Well made but unappealing dark brew. From the 22 oz bottle purchased at The Market in Anacortes, Wash.

 

It has a unique frothy mouth feel and a distinctly stout taste, but in a smooth drinkable way. There is little bitterness here.

 

650ml bottle. A kind of old meets new world stout, it would seem from the ingredients listed on the label.

This beer pours a pretty solid black, with promiscuous basal red cola highlights, and two flabby fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and mostly bubbly beige head, which leaves some ancient Runic symbol lace around the glass as it quickly wisps away.

It smells of roasted, lightly bready caramel malt, bittersweet chocolate, cold, stale coffee, faint discount cola, and a plain earthy, weedy, and spicy hoppiness. The taste is gritty, grainy pale and caramel malt, waning dry cocoa powder notes, expired milk, ethereal cola syrup, and a tame leafy, earthy, and more or less benign hop bitterness.

The carbonation is fairly sprightly in its tightly-rendered frothiness, the body on the light side of medium weight, and a bit too edgy (even with the aid of the guest oatmeal grain) and clammy to be deemed particularly smooth. It finishes off-dry, just, as that muddled malt lingers on like a bad cold, with nothing else really able to save it from itself.

Yeah, I guess I meant it when I mentioned a meeting of worlds in my opening preamble - what I couldn't grok then, though, was that this is more of a clash, than an amicable team-up. The milky sourness starts to dominate in a big way as it warms, and not pleasantly. So-so overall, and hardly something that I'd normally associate with the term 'All Out'.

 

 

 

Bridge Brewing 'All Out Stout' @ 5.0% , served from a 650 ml bottle purchased for $5.50
A-pour is cola brown from the bottle to a near black in the glass with a medium size beige/tan head leaving a spotty lace along the pint
S-oats
T-somewhat smooth start , oats , not a creamy middle
MF-mild carbonation , medium body , bitter finish lingers on the palate
Ov-ok beer , my first from Bridge , will try more styles
prost LampertLand

 

 

 

650ml - no dating-- tasting at 8C
A: opaque black; tan head
S: nice bright moka, touch of cola
T:soft, smooth, easy to drink; medium to low intensity but nice complexity. Low perceived bitterness [25 IBU]. Very well balanced. Not a long aftertaste.
M: low to medium bodied.
O: A very nice mellow stout. It's a pleasant subtle taste so don't look for something big and bold. A stout I would definitely buy again.

New offering from Bridge Brewing Company All Out Stout in a 650ml bottle. I have only tried Bridge Brewings pale ale and was not totally won over but I like a good sessional stout ( this is 5 %).

Poured out almost black with not a bad head . Smells very malty sweet , chocolate malt roast malt but not over powering very nice . Could not get any hop aroma .

Taste at first sweet malt and then bitter from the roast malts then the finish is a little oily from the oatmeal but not too much .

This a very balanced stout no over power notes there are hops there but we are talking Golding and Willamette at 25 IBU s so most of the bitterness is from the roast malt. The mouth feel works this is a stout you could have a few pints of.

Just when I was thinking there was no sessionable stout done locally. I like this and I would like to try this on tap.