Closer To Gold
Mast Landing Brewing Company
- From:
- Mast Landing Brewing Company
- Maine, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 11%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.22 | pDev: 4.98%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jan 01, 2021
- Added:
- Feb 21, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by jlindros from Massachusetts
4.15/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.15/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Canned 1/27/20, batch 1
Pours a smaller tan foamy fizzy head with med retention, great lacing, good legs, jet black color
Nose brings a bit of roast and coffee, but mostly cocoa and dark chocolate, a little chocolate ganache and fudge, rich cocoa, light nougat characters, hint of spices and licorice
Taste brings more of the rich cocoa, dark chocolate, a little fudgey note, with more of that nougat character and a little licorice and spice again, back into roasted coffee and a little char, a bit of spicy hop notes, only a bit of bitterness which is half from the spicy hops and half from the roasted malts, def expected more bitterness, although the finish brings more of the spicy hop bitterness thankfully
Mouth is med to fuller bod, med fizzy carb, very light warming alcohol
Overall pretty good, smooth and rich dark malts without burnt or acrid, lots of cocoa and chocolate, nice licorice and spice, lacks a bit of the bitterness up front but brings it on the finish, a decent imperial stout overall
Jul 26, 2020Pours a smaller tan foamy fizzy head with med retention, great lacing, good legs, jet black color
Nose brings a bit of roast and coffee, but mostly cocoa and dark chocolate, a little chocolate ganache and fudge, rich cocoa, light nougat characters, hint of spices and licorice
Taste brings more of the rich cocoa, dark chocolate, a little fudgey note, with more of that nougat character and a little licorice and spice again, back into roasted coffee and a little char, a bit of spicy hop notes, only a bit of bitterness which is half from the spicy hops and half from the roasted malts, def expected more bitterness, although the finish brings more of the spicy hop bitterness thankfully
Mouth is med to fuller bod, med fizzy carb, very light warming alcohol
Overall pretty good, smooth and rich dark malts without burnt or acrid, lots of cocoa and chocolate, nice licorice and spice, lacks a bit of the bitterness up front but brings it on the finish, a decent imperial stout overall
Reviewed by ichorNet from Massachusetts
4.35/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.35/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Well, whaddya know, a big ol' imperial stout from Mast Landing of all breweries... these guys have put out a veritable crap-ton of IPAs (both hazy and not-so-hazy) over the past few months, but not much in the way of stouts. Funny, considering probably their most popular year-round, Gunner's Daughter, is a stout, albeit a flavored one. Anyway, I know they did put out Inglenook (a rye stout) a couple months back, but this is the first non-adjunct imperial stout that I can remember them doing. I'm excited!
The pour is big and bold, as expected; an infinitely-dark, hue-less void of velvety black liquid from which all manner of roast and charred grains will likely flow. The head is a little thinner than expected, but the trade-off lies in its solid retention and well-handled lacing, which coats the inside of my glass in swaths of thin, drippy foam. Swirling my glass allows the head to come back a bit darker for a few seconds, though it quickly sinks back down to a half-finger.
The nose is decadent and chocolate-y, rich with cocoa powder, ganache, and light notes of dark fruit and brown sugar around the edges. Some treacle and molasses as well, with a generic (yet fitting) round of roasted grains and some slightly-sweeter aspects (café au lait?) coming through the murk. A touch of aromatic tobacco and perhaps even a hint of licorice appear in the mix as it warms. This is bound to not be a hop-focused beer, but, for what it's worth, I can detect a slight bit of pine and maybe some herbal greenery in here too. Alright, this definitely has some stuff going for it. It definitely has its fair share of ethanol heat to it, as well, so I can tell it'll be a sipper.
On the tongue, CTG comes across strong with an opening salvo of dried dark fruit, a chewy & roasty malt backbone, and a lot of interesting little notes ranging from tobacco to coffee and spice. I'm sure the earthy spice notes are from the yeast and/or the high ABV, but they're quite nice anyway. Almost a "cardamom"-like note, if you will. Leathery and slightly savory, chewy and chocolate-y, with prominent piney-ness toward the finish, this is definitely a formidable beer with less sweetness than you'd think given the nose's dedication to being, ya know, an imperial stout. Almost has a "Belgian stout" character to it with all that dark fruit and the unusual yeastiness. Sure, there's a lot of husky grains and semi-sweet flavors, but the finish is almost bone-dry and, like I mentioned above, there's a nearly-savory aspect here that is just interesting. Heavy bodied, as expected, with moderate carbonation. A sipper, but a good one. Kudos to ML for putting out a plain yet surprisingly-complex imperial stout in the current beer world. That's a risk, but it seems to have paid off.
Feb 21, 2020The pour is big and bold, as expected; an infinitely-dark, hue-less void of velvety black liquid from which all manner of roast and charred grains will likely flow. The head is a little thinner than expected, but the trade-off lies in its solid retention and well-handled lacing, which coats the inside of my glass in swaths of thin, drippy foam. Swirling my glass allows the head to come back a bit darker for a few seconds, though it quickly sinks back down to a half-finger.
The nose is decadent and chocolate-y, rich with cocoa powder, ganache, and light notes of dark fruit and brown sugar around the edges. Some treacle and molasses as well, with a generic (yet fitting) round of roasted grains and some slightly-sweeter aspects (café au lait?) coming through the murk. A touch of aromatic tobacco and perhaps even a hint of licorice appear in the mix as it warms. This is bound to not be a hop-focused beer, but, for what it's worth, I can detect a slight bit of pine and maybe some herbal greenery in here too. Alright, this definitely has some stuff going for it. It definitely has its fair share of ethanol heat to it, as well, so I can tell it'll be a sipper.
On the tongue, CTG comes across strong with an opening salvo of dried dark fruit, a chewy & roasty malt backbone, and a lot of interesting little notes ranging from tobacco to coffee and spice. I'm sure the earthy spice notes are from the yeast and/or the high ABV, but they're quite nice anyway. Almost a "cardamom"-like note, if you will. Leathery and slightly savory, chewy and chocolate-y, with prominent piney-ness toward the finish, this is definitely a formidable beer with less sweetness than you'd think given the nose's dedication to being, ya know, an imperial stout. Almost has a "Belgian stout" character to it with all that dark fruit and the unusual yeastiness. Sure, there's a lot of husky grains and semi-sweet flavors, but the finish is almost bone-dry and, like I mentioned above, there's a nearly-savory aspect here that is just interesting. Heavy bodied, as expected, with moderate carbonation. A sipper, but a good one. Kudos to ML for putting out a plain yet surprisingly-complex imperial stout in the current beer world. That's a risk, but it seems to have paid off.
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