Mike's Beer of the Week

Beer Information

Brewery: Maine Brewing Company

Beer Name: Mean Old Tom

Beer Style: American Stout

Abv.: 6.5%

Serving Glassware: Snifter, Tulip, Pint

Serving Temp.: 45-50 deg. F.(BeerAdvocate)

Packaging: 16.9 oz bottles

Price: ~$7

Availability: N/A

Pairings: Eggs, Bacon, Pop Tarts

Mike's Ratings (1-5)

Overall Grade: A

Appearance: 4.5

Aroma: 4.5

Taste: 4.5

Mouthfeel: 4.5

Drinkability: 4.5

BeerAdvocate Avg.: B

Mike's Description

Appearance - Black coffee appearance with minimal head and no retention. With the dark color, it's hard to tell if there's any sediment, but this brew appears to be thoroughly translucent.

Aroma - Pure coffee bean aroma with some sweetness from the vanilla beans. Slight milk chocolate esters compliment the coffee character delivering for an aroma that provides as advertised.

Taste - Pretty much spot on with the aroma here...the coffee facet carries a little more load though. The vanilla beans are less noticeable, but they clearly provide that "something's missing" present in many stouts out there.

Mouthfeel - Very full bodied beer that I would have assumed to be classified as a coffee stout, but good either way. The coffee bean taste holds firm into the aftertaste.

Overall - Very good beer that delivers as promised and I'd definitely purchase it again. Even though this beer isn't classified as a coffee beer, it still might take the cake for my favorite coffee beer (even over the BBC Coffeehouse Porter).