Top 10 Fall Beers
AMERICAN
CRAFT BREWS
North
Coast "Old Stock Ale"
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Old Ale - California / Seasonal
$3.50/12 oz.
12.5% ABV
Most
beer is made to be consumed fresh, but some are
built to last or even improve over time like
a fine wine. North Coast’s "Old
Stock Ale" is inspired by one such style,
the ‘olde ales’ of England designed
for long-term aging. This huge beer is
loaded with everything that helps ales mature
gracefully; massive amounts of malt, hops and
alcohol. Dessert-like in flavor and richness,
this beer is like a liquid bread pudding. Laden
with flavors of drunken fruits, like rum-soaked
raisins and brandied cherries, it nonetheless
finishes drier than it starts, like a dusting
of bittersweet cocoa. At over twelve percent alcohol,
a party of four could reasonably share a standard
bottle of "Old
Stock Ale" as a nightcap
after dinner, savored slowly from snifters. If
you’d like to sock it away, store it upright
in cool dark conditions for up to five years.
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