Shuck Cancer
Urban South Brewery
- From:
- Urban South Brewery
- Louisiana, United States
- Style:
- American Stout
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.72 | pDev: 8.6%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 07, 2019
- Added:
- Oct 18, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.4/5 rDev -8.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.4/5 rDev -8.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
CAN: 12 fl oz pull-tab.
"Oyster stout." Brewed for the American Cancer Society. Available in 6 packs.
Black body. Tan head.
Aroma is typical American stout - chocolate, dark malt sweetness, cream, buried roast. No briney or oyster-like aromatics whatsoever. Nothing salty or fishy.
TASTE: Matches the aroma. Chocolate specialty malt, dark malt sweetness, very reticent roasted barley. Lacks any overt oyster-like/briney flavours, hop flavours, or yeast flavours. A simple by-the-book American stout with nothing to show for its ostensible oyster component.
TEXTURE: Medium-bodied. Somewhat heavy on the palate/unrefreshing. Smooth and wet.
OVERALL: A drinkable stout with no ornamentation or pizzazz...hardly an oyster stout proper. Not bad in its own right - I mean, it's enjoyable for what it is - but for an oyster stout brewed by a brewery in a city with some of the best access to oysters in the country it's in, it's rather disappointing in its failure to evoke the titular ingredient or to showcase the strengths an oyster stout can lord over "ordinary" stouts. Who wouldn't rather drink Flying Dog’s Pearl Necklace, 21st Amendment’s Marooned On Hog Island, or Porterhouse Brewing’s Oyster Stout?
Feels like they came up with the name (Shuck Cancer) first, and then figured they could half-ass an oyster stout to make that a viable beer premise. Marketing over execution yet again...
B- / WORTHY
Dec 07, 2019"Oyster stout." Brewed for the American Cancer Society. Available in 6 packs.
Black body. Tan head.
Aroma is typical American stout - chocolate, dark malt sweetness, cream, buried roast. No briney or oyster-like aromatics whatsoever. Nothing salty or fishy.
TASTE: Matches the aroma. Chocolate specialty malt, dark malt sweetness, very reticent roasted barley. Lacks any overt oyster-like/briney flavours, hop flavours, or yeast flavours. A simple by-the-book American stout with nothing to show for its ostensible oyster component.
TEXTURE: Medium-bodied. Somewhat heavy on the palate/unrefreshing. Smooth and wet.
OVERALL: A drinkable stout with no ornamentation or pizzazz...hardly an oyster stout proper. Not bad in its own right - I mean, it's enjoyable for what it is - but for an oyster stout brewed by a brewery in a city with some of the best access to oysters in the country it's in, it's rather disappointing in its failure to evoke the titular ingredient or to showcase the strengths an oyster stout can lord over "ordinary" stouts. Who wouldn't rather drink Flying Dog’s Pearl Necklace, 21st Amendment’s Marooned On Hog Island, or Porterhouse Brewing’s Oyster Stout?
Feels like they came up with the name (Shuck Cancer) first, and then figured they could half-ass an oyster stout to make that a viable beer premise. Marketing over execution yet again...
B- / WORTHY
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