Custer’s Last Stout
Montana Brewing Company

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From:
Montana Brewing Company
 
Montana, United States
Style:
Foreign / Export Stout
ABV:
5.4%
Score:
87
Avg:
3.89 | pDev: 7.97%
Reviews:
10
Ratings:
25
Status:
Active
Rated:
Sep 06, 2021
Added:
Aug 15, 2002
Wants:
  3
Gots:
  1
Custer’s Last Stout is a Foreign-Style stout. It has an initial malt sweetness and chocolate flavor with a dry roasted bitterness finish. It is brewed with English malted barley and domestic Fuggle hops. This variety of hop adds a slight herbal (licorice) aroma and flavor to our stout. Foreign-Style stouts originated when English breweries added more hops and alcohol to their classic dry stouts as a natural preservative. They did this so the beer would survive the long journey to their far reaching empire around the world.
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Ratings by Starchild:
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Reviewed by Starchild from New Jersey

4.05/5  rDev +4.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 5
The beer was inky black, with no lacing, and a skimpy ring of foam. The beer was poorly carbonated. Only roasted malt in the nose.

The beer was exceptionaly clean and I was reminded that stouts can be quite refreshing. The beer presented subtle roasted malt flavors (most likely just one type). Then, the taste vanished quicker then Custer losing his battalions of troops during his last stand. I catagorized the stout as dry, but it won the GABF in 2004 in the export catagory. Still, I Iike stouts with more body.
Dec 01, 2004
More User Ratings:
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Reviewed by Pivopijak from Washington

3.62/5  rDev -6.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
draught
Clear, very dark chestnut brown look. Faint, charred grain nose. Light but pretty good, medium heavy toasted grain flavor and finishes that way.
Sep 06, 2021
 
Rated: 3.49 by Kolb from Montana

Apr 30, 2019
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Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont

3.99/5  rDev +2.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
This was poured into a 10 oz pint glass. The appearance was a nice looking dark brown close to black color with a bar pour’s kind of slim white to off white foamy head that dissipated evenly to allow a decent lacing roaming about. The smell had a thick rich roasted cocoa bean to slight coffee rich indulgent glossed over cakey-ness. The taste was pretty much exactly the same and covered a big cakey rich chocolate into the aftertaste. Semi-dry finish came across nicely. On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with a rich chocolatey roastiness rolling over my tongue, indulgent - definitely. Semi-sipper to somewhat of a drinker allowed me to be quite pleased. Overall, foreign/export stout or American stout, maybe a cross between the two. If anything, I liked it and would have it again.
Feb 21, 2018
 
Rated: 3.85 by BlueSpader from Washington

Aug 03, 2017
 
Rated: 3.36 by SamuelMiller from Montana

Dec 20, 2015
 
Rated: 3.81 by B_B from California

Nov 09, 2015
 
Rated: 4.09 by cfitterer from Montana

Aug 17, 2015
 
Rated: 4 by a77cj7 from South Dakota

Nov 23, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by jkerzman92 from Michigan

Sep 27, 2014
 
Rated: 4.25 by Gatorcon from Illinois

Aug 30, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by LXIXME from New Mexico

Jun 01, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by harpus from Alabama

Jan 06, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by Eric908 from South Dakota

Aug 04, 2013
 
Rated: 3.75 by tbone1384 from Wyoming

Nov 11, 2012
 
Rated: 4 by dunix from Vermont

Oct 29, 2012
 
Rated: 3.5 by Ivanhoes_Backpack from Canada (NB)

Sep 01, 2012
 
Rated: 4 by arff406 from Montana

Feb 15, 2012
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Reviewed by NWer from Washington

4.38/5  rDev +12.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Per the menu at the brewery:
"Style: Oatmeal Stout
ABV: 5.4% IBU's 30"

Poured a deep black into my pint glass at the Montana Brewing Company in Billings, Montana.
Very nice appearance. Nice head, decent lace. Aroma is full of coffee and chocolate notes.
The taste is the same. A very good Oatmeal Stout.
Far and away the better of the two styles I tried at the brewery and would seek this out again whenever I have the chance.
Aug 27, 2011
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Reviewed by champ103 from Texas

4.25/5  rDev +9.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
A: Pours a dark brown. Almost opaque. A two finger tan head forms, and recedes to leave some sticky lace behind.
S: A huge roasted malt. Chocolate, sweet toffee, and light coffee flavors. More complexities come out as it warms up. Like a very interesting peppermint aroma.
T: At first, the flavor is very muted. Though as it warms up, more and more flavors come out. Rich roasted malt. Chocolate and toffee again. Very nice.
M/D: A medium to full body and low on the carbonation end. Very creamy and smooth. Easy to drink. I don't know the alcohol, but this is very drinkable.

A great stout. Get some if you are ever at the brewpub.
Aug 27, 2009
Custer’s Last Stout from Montana Brewing Company
Beer rating: 87 out of 100 with 25 ratings