Posts Tagged: Stouts
Stouts: Fresh Draught Stout, Maine Coast Brewing, USA
Posted by on Monday, April 18, 2005 in - 2 comments
This is a smooth cream stout that goes off in a direction that I just don't quite get. A beige ring over really dark black ale. It has chocolate, licorice and roast barley notes but also a somewhat odd Mennonite apple butter thing in the middle. Not unpleasant but really big and malty like you …
Stouts: Royal Extra Stout, Trinidad
Posted by on Thursday, November 18, 2004 in - 6 comments
This is one of my favorite winter stouts, a real foreign stout. A foreign stout was a high test export ready stout created to survive a sail. Imperial Stouts, dry and roasty at pushing 10%, were originally created for the Baltic trade between England and the northern Slavs in the late 1700s and …
New York: Variety 12- Pack, Cooperstown Brewing, Milford
Posted by on Saturday, October 30, 2004 in - 10 comments
Another big buy from my trip a few weeks ago to the Party Source in Syracuse, NY. The case of this happy vista upon cracking the cardboard. Cooperstown Brewing is not actually in Cooperstown but is a proud cornerstone of the Milford, New York business community. • Like the Smuttynose case review …
Stouts: Freeminer Deep Shaft, Gloucestershire, England
Posted by on Monday, October 18, 2004 in - leave a comment
Who can resist when one reviewer says: " Very possibly the darkest beer in the world." Well...I suppose lots of people who do not like dark or black beer. But for people who understand that Guinness is actually red, this kind of line makes an ale very attractive. • Freeminer Brewery is one of …
Rogue Chocolate Stout, Oregon, USA
Posted by on Saturday, September 18, 2004 in - 4 comments
I mentioned in a post below how I am amazed how the LCBO - Liquor Control Board of Ontario - cannot stock shelves better than a decent corner store in the USA. With the monopoly of 12 million people behind it, the LCBO is the greatest buyer of beer, wine and spirits in the world. The biggest used …
Assorted Darks
Posted by on Thursday, September 2, 2004 in - 2 comments
Three New Yorkers and one each from England, Quebec and Ontario • Here are six dark ales which I have stuck away over the last while to describe some of the differences. This is a special message to Nils who I think can start his hunt for a beer he likes with some of these. • If you were …
