Dry Irish Stout
Postmark Brewing

 

This was my first beer from Postmark, and it was a nice introduction. This is a truly dry stout - it has a remarkably uneventful finish - somewhat like an early disappointing ending to spirited foreplay. It looks good in the glass, smells the way a stout should, and has nice roasted malt flavour. I applaud the brewer for staying true to the style - it really reminds me of the old school non-nitro Labatt brewed "Guinness" my grandpa used to drink from time to time.

 

650ml bottle, with some weird shark fin imagery depicted on the black and white label.

This beer pours a solid black hole, yet with fast and loose basal cola edges, and two fingers of puffy, foamy, and playfully bubbly beige head, which leaves some decent spectral and spooky tree branch lace around the glass as things slowly abate.

It smells of gritty, and somewhat dusty roasted caramel malt, a touch of meaty ash, bittersweet chocolate, a twinge of dry coffee beans, and tame earthy, leafy, and weedy hops. The taste is bready, grainy caramel malt, medium dark chocolate, subtle cafe-au-lait notes, separate wet char, a sort of granola bar oaten character, some mild earthy anise, and weak leafy, weedy, and floral hop bitters.

The carbonation is fairly light on its feet when it comes to its generic frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, just a wee bit of ashy astringency mucking things up as we duly progress. It finishes off-dry, that toasty cocoa and caramel sweetness carrying on as if ever was.

Not a bad version of the style, though definitely more robust and sugary than the norm - lots of chocolate and char abounding, and nothing particularly thin about it. Worthy of pub-fueled discussion 'sessions', I'm sure, when one's tolerance for the big boys' offerings runs predictably short.

 

 

Postmark Brewing 'Dry Irish Stout' @ 4.5% , served from a 650 ml bottle purchased for $7
A-doesn't do the Guinness thing , butt is a dark brown/almost black in the glass with a small beige head leaving a spotty lace along the pint
S-malt & barley
T-dry , oh so dry tasting
MF-ok/lots of carbonation , almost full bodied with a lingering dryness on the palate
Ov-ok beer & Irish Dry Stout
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