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Oyster Stout
Postmark Brewing
- From:
- Postmark Brewing
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American Stout
- ABV:
- 4.6%
- Score:
- Needs more ratings
- Avg:
- 4 | pDev: 3.5%
- Reviews:
- 2
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Apr 08, 2017
- Added:
- Nov 24, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
A unique coastal craft beer experience. In this Oyster Stout we use the shells and brine from the oyster but not the meat. The result of this is an ever so slight saltiness that compliments the roasty notes of this classic Stout.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Ratings by biboergosum:
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.85/5 rDev -3.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.85/5 rDev -3.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle, yet another add here by a user who hasn't the wherewithal to provide any sort of content, context, or sense of being, as such. Thank ya oh so much. Made with actual oyster shells, I think - that's a new one for me.
This beer pours a fairly black affair, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy tan head, which leaves some decent random seafront profile lace around the glass as it lazily recedes.
It smells of mildly toasted and bready caramel malt, bittersweet chocolate, faint cafe-au-lait, those oyster crackers my Mom used to serve with any and all sort of soup, and very tame leafy, earthy, and weedy green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, rather dry cocoa powder notes, day-old coffee, spoiled milk, some minor free-range ashiness, and a sense of verdant hoppiness totally wasted (as in lost, in case you were wondering).
The carbonation is rather tame in its plain-ass frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, with a simple airy creaminess availing itself from the onset. It finishes off-dry, the chocolate and mildly toasted malt essences ruling the day.
Overall, this is a simple and mostly engaging stout, but hardly American in its style of origin - this is strictly English, I have to say, especially if there's said adjuncts in play. C'mon, I mean real oysters, and thus a brew actually made with them, instead of intended to be consumed with them? Ok, maybe those upstart Yankees might have influenced this coy behaviour - but we don't really know, do we?
Jan 06, 2017This beer pours a fairly black affair, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy tan head, which leaves some decent random seafront profile lace around the glass as it lazily recedes.
It smells of mildly toasted and bready caramel malt, bittersweet chocolate, faint cafe-au-lait, those oyster crackers my Mom used to serve with any and all sort of soup, and very tame leafy, earthy, and weedy green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, rather dry cocoa powder notes, day-old coffee, spoiled milk, some minor free-range ashiness, and a sense of verdant hoppiness totally wasted (as in lost, in case you were wondering).
The carbonation is rather tame in its plain-ass frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, with a simple airy creaminess availing itself from the onset. It finishes off-dry, the chocolate and mildly toasted malt essences ruling the day.
Overall, this is a simple and mostly engaging stout, but hardly American in its style of origin - this is strictly English, I have to say, especially if there's said adjuncts in play. C'mon, I mean real oysters, and thus a brew actually made with them, instead of intended to be consumed with them? Ok, maybe those upstart Yankees might have influenced this coy behaviour - but we don't really know, do we?
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by Toddem from Canada (BC)
4.25/5 rDev +6.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +6.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Had this on tap at the Settlement Building tasting area.
Served at exactly the right temperature for me and no sweet after taste. I don't like stouts that leave a sweet-ish finish and this did not do that (so I'm happy).
Great aroma, and just a small amount of foam on top.
If you like stout this'll work.
Apr 07, 2017Served at exactly the right temperature for me and no sweet after taste. I don't like stouts that leave a sweet-ish finish and this did not do that (so I'm happy).
Great aroma, and just a small amount of foam on top.
If you like stout this'll work.
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