Ridgeway Foreign Export Stout
Ridgeway Brewing

Pours dark brown with white foamy cap on cask. Silky roasting notes of coffee and caramel that sort of melt in the mouth. Mild subtle craft stout without the big punch - silky and nice on 55 degree craft pour at Churchkey DC.

 

On tap at Delaware Supply in Albany, NY.

This one pours a very dark black color, with a small head, and a bit of lacing.

This smells like roasted malt, dark chocolate, tobacco, licorice, and a little bit of caramel.

I really love this style, and it’s basically gone in the United States, so I loved finding this at one of my favorite bars. It’s thin, but creamy enough, with lots of chocolate, roast and some herbal and sweet notes – raisin, tobacco, and licorice.

This is creamy, and very drinkable, with a thin and quick finish.

There’s a lot to like here, and I love that I was able to find it on draft.

Bottle 0.5L.
Black body with average, frothy, tan head, fully diminishing with virtually no lacing.
Moderate-to-heavy malty (caramel, roasted) and hoppy aroma, with notes of licorice, nuts, cofee, light chocolate.
Moderate-to-heavy bitter flavour with light-to-moderate sweet character.
Medium body with oily texture; soft carbonation.

Aroma is roasted/toasted malts and chocolate/dark chocolate. The flavor is fruit/slightly sour, chocolate/dark chocolate and a very acidic/roasted malt finish.

 

Poured from a 500 ml bottle into the test glass
A - Dark mahagony color, thin white cap is quick to recede
S - Some cocoa, tobacco, earthy hops, hints of black cherry (yeast maybe)
T - Roasty, with a good dose of bakers chocolate, some walnut as well
M - Bounces across the palate, with a nice texture, excelent dry finish
O - A good stout that i would love to try on cask

500ml bottle poured into a snifter.

A: Deep mahogany brown color with a good clarity. A finger of beige head sticks around for a while but does eventually settle. Pencil thin rings of lacing are broken and scraggly.

S: A little bit of treacle and nuttiness up front. Plenty of bakers chocolate. A light backing of campfire smoke and jerky. Lots of fruit skins; grape and raisin. Plenty of hops with an earthy and grassy baseline and some spicy tobacco overtones.

T: A good wallop of roast up front. Much sootier and more charred than the nose suggested. Bakers chocolate, campfire smoke, touch of coffee and acidity. Fruit skins are more delicate than they were on the nose but come out with that same grape and raisin sort of character. Hops are mostly grassy with a mild bitterness, but start to bite with an oilier spiciness on the back end. Long finish of jerky, smoke, bakers chocolate, and grape.

M: Medium-full body. There is some heft, with a chewy and slightly coating feel. Some acidic astringency and enamel raking hop tannin, though it is mild. Some warming alcohol. Carbonation is ample, with a bit of a carbonic bite and prickle at the tongue.

O: It perhaps isn't the best beer to appeal to the American palate that is accustomed to being beaten over the head with roast and straight-up dessert items in their stouts, but it's quite solid. Just a beefier version of an English stout. The complexity is not on par with standouts like Guinness Foreign Extra, but it is very pleasant and easy to drink.

 

 

"Best before 6/10/24"; drank 2/21/23 @ the Yarchives.

Opaque brown appearance.

An even pour yielded a nice tan head; a thick curtain of lace.

Oats, cream, mild chocolate & faint mint notes in the nose.

Creamy medium mouthfeel.

Cream & mild mint flavors up front; chocolate & oat notes on the finish.

Smooth, creamy, unique & pretty damn delicious.

I'll be buying this on sight moving forward...

 

 

Ridgeway Foreign Export Stout has a thin, beige head and a very dark-brown appearance, with no lacing. The aroma is of dark-roasted barley malt. The taste is of that element, with raisins and dates. The bitterness and sweetness are relatively low. Ridgeway Foreign Export Stout has a medium body and a mostly-dry finish.

RJT

Poured dark with plenty of carbonation and thin light head.

Up front in the taste is malt with some sweetness and mild hop/malt bitterness. Also a bit of ash and char mixed with some light coffee. Has a rather light, bubbly mouthfeel. It's good, but nothing really remarkable about this one.

 

 

L- Almost black, glints of ruby through corners of the glass when held to the light. Clear, pours with 1Cm pale tan fine-bubble head. Head clears quite soon, but leaves lacing down the sides of the glass.
S- Toasty and rich malts.
T- Boof, quite a punchy hoppy flavour for a stout. Then you notice the toasty charred notes.
F- Hoppy/bitter for a stout. Quite a pungent feel but to me there's no way it comes over as 8.0%ABV.
O- Good pungent stout. I'm quite surprised by the lack of richness/mouth-feel of the 8.0%; but if you told me it's 6.0% I might be quite impressed.
500ml bottle. BB: 21/01/22.

Black color with red highlights and a thin head short lived.
Chocolatey aroma with notes of cocoa, licorice, oat and some dark fruits.
Flavor with notes of cola, coffee, nuts, just a bit of grapes, caramel, tea leaves, chocolate, burnt grains, tangy hops and oat. Dry aftertaste with a medium bitterness.
Light body with mild carbonation. Alcohol of 8% is superbly disguised.
Foreign Export Stout with great malt complexity and rather soft on the dark fruit. Original and with less strength relatively to the style.

On cask at Bulls Head in Lititz, PA.

Lovely pour from a barkeep who knows his craft: dark, opaque black with a cloudy grey head. Truly beautiful.

The beer has an English aroma, with bitter nobel hops and chocolate porter grain against faint wisps of alcohol.

Very smooth flavor. Chocolate and bright coffee up front, porter grain in the middle, and a bittersour finish.