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Sweet mutiny4/16/2023 He’s been set adrift by the Maryland educational establishment, much like Captain Bligh in the movie “Mutiny on the Bounty” starring Clark Gable and Charles Loughton, made in 1935. Held up amazingly well for 7.5 years at the low ABV.Someone send Mohammad Choudhury a lifejacket. A highly enjoyable offering, and outstanding spot on English style example as expected. Light residual sweetness with lingering dryness. Awesome balance of rich malts and oyster sauce/shells with solid earthy hops, and restrained fruity yeast. All around awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/black/roast/bready malts, oyster sauce/shells, and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors very smooth and easy to drink with the mellowly bitter/charred/drying finish great soft/silky feel for the ABV. Overall this is an outstanding Oyster stout. Light-medium carbonation and medium-plus body with a very smooth, creamy/silky/bready, and lightly sticky/chalky/saline mouthfeel that is great. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering hop/char bitterness. Awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/black/roast/bready malts, oyster sauce/shells, and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors with an awesome roast/hop bitter/sweet balance and no cloying, acrid, astringent flavors after the finish. Lingering notes of milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, oysters, sea salt, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, dark bread/crust, licorice, molasses, dark fruit, smoke, char, herbal, wood, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Light pine, herbal, woody, grassy, peppery, roast, charred bitterness on the finish. Taste of big milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, oysters, sea salt, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, and dark bread/crust with lighter notes of licorice, molasses, raisin, prune, fig, date, smoke, herbal, wood, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/black/roast/bready malts, oyster sauce/shells, and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast notes with big strength. Aromas of big milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, oysters, sea salt, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, and dark bread/crust with lighter notes of licorice, molasses, raisin, prune, fig, date, smoke, herbal, wood, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Thick foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a light amount of streaming carbonation. Pours nearly opaque dark brown/black color with a 2-3 finger dense and rocky tan head with amazing retention, that reduces to a large cap that lasts. Jul 08, 2020Ģ2 ounce bottle into pint glass, bottled in 4/2012. Only regret is I didn't pair a cigar with it, which I'm sure would be delightful. Its unique enough to put out a sub 6% stout these days, but then to do it with the oyster work they put in, double unique and its actually enjoyable to drink too. The dryness afterward is greater than the very mild sweet spot, if any. Mouth feel is fine, same stuff, moderate and appropriate amount of carbonation. Its really nice and crushable too, they didn't Dark Lord it up and go double digit abv, the nice restraint works well here to be able to taste all the nuance of some unique ingredients to say the least. There is the obligatory roasted malt coffee and chocolate like notes, but then you get the salinity. Interesting aroma, got more going on than just roasted malt, there is a smoky saline aspect to it, like an ocean beach fire.
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