Ridgeway Foreign Export Stout

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 5

Pours a dark black/brown with no chance of a head forming. Aroma is fruity with a hint of some frufru flavored coffee. Taste is very watered down with hints of dark malts and coffee grounds. Finishes off like cold coffee. It is warming I will say that. Not the best stout.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Pours a nice dark, opaque sable with a decent light tan head that sticks around a little bit. Aroma is malty, spicy and chocolaty with a hint of coffee. Flavor is like decent mocha with hints of malt and molasses and just a touch of spice, mainly cloves. Texture is smooth, just a teensy watery, a little bit fizzy. Not the best stout I've had, but worth a try.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

One of the better beers to be released by Ridgeway, as they seem to put out average to below-average beers out almost on a yearly basis. This had some nice stout qualities to it, which made it nice to drink but still rather forgettable. The beer pours out a rootbeer brown body but sits in my glass looking rather black to me. Head starts out with a vigorous 2" thickeness, creamy but melts into a scant 1/4" head and stays that way. Aroma is slightly smokey, some dirty penny/metallic notes, light coffee and bakers chocolate. Flavor is a bit more assertive with some nice coffee/mocha like flavor, roasted malts but it finishes on the dry side with a bit of puckering like tannins to it. Nothing great, but okay. I guess.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Bottled. Black beer with huge beigeish brown head. Aroma is milk chocolate, licorice, slightly wooden and also caramelly. Once it warms up some roasted malts and wood also become present. Flavour is mildly roasted malts, big time smoked wood as well as some mild bitterness. Rather sweet flavour overall. Hides the alcohol well in the flavour, but gives a little warming kick when drinking.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Poured a dark bornw with red edges. Aroma was of roasted chocolate and some dark fruits. Flavor was some licorice chocolate and very malty. Was a little sweet, needed some hops to balance it out. But not bad.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Dark brown color, short of black, hues of ruby read. Excellent tan head, great retention, solid lacing. Aroma of light roast, licorice, chocolate, perhaps some fruitiness. The flavor was licorice (almost a black patent malt flavor like a schwarz or even a bit of a baltic porter), molasses, milk chocolate, plenty of residual sugars left over, the latter which drowned out any hops I could detect. Mouthfeel was light to medium bodied (not a bad thing at all), as this sucker was surprisingly a bit thinned for the quantity of flavor. A nice brew.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Pours dark mahogany with red tinged edges and a thin off white head. Aroma is sweet milk chocolate, toffee, roasted coffee, and raisins. Very smooth mouthfeel, silky and sweet. Starts with a rush of caramel, toffee, raisins and molasses. Sweet espresso and dark chocolate follow before finishing out with some smoke, molasses, and grass. Very tasty and interesting beer. Not quite sure I'd peg it as a FES, but tasty none the less.