ABV: 10.5% Santa’s Little Helper by Port Brewing has a deep coffee brown head and the body is black. The aroma is chocolate and toffee with hints of coffee and roasted character. The flavour contains all of what you find in the aroma but has more of the roasted character, balancing out a sweet backbone… Read more »
ABV: 8.5% Fade to Black by Left Hand Brewing had a low brown head that slowly faded to the black of the the beer, and black it is. The aroma is rich and chocolately and sweet but with some roasted coffee notes to balance it out. The flavour is largely dark chocolate and coffee, the… Read more »
ABV: 7.5% Thornbridge Winter Imperial Stout has a thick creamy (cream coloured) head that lasts forever and is extremely smooth to drink and a dark not quite black colour to the body. The aroma is full of chocolate and coffee with a hint of caramel and the flavour is more the the same with a… Read more »
ABV: 10% For the final advent day I’m drinking a fairly appropriately named beer by Evil Twin (though I’m not in a hotel room or in New York city). Extremely dark body and a deep coffee coloured head with even a few bubbles that go down when you pour, this beer has excellent head retention…. Read more »
ABV: 11% Mohawk Snowmelter is I believe the strongest beer this advent season. With minimal light brown head that disappeared quickly this beer is quite dark. The aroma is of cigarette smoke and the body is much the same. If there are other tastes or smells they were heavily overpowered by the smokiness. The body… Read more »
ABV: 7.6% Probably the coolest thing about Midtfyns Bryghus Jule Stout is that the label actually has braille on it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that on a label before. Basically black in colour this beer’s head started as a deep coffee colour before fading to a creamy white colour. It was very thick… Read more »
ABV: 9.7% A black body and a coffee coloured head (the head is darker than it appears in the picture) this imperial stout by Mohawk (a Swedish nomad brewer) is not what you expect from a drink in this category. The first thing I noticed when pouring this beer was a very powerful grapefruit aroma… Read more »
Today I’m going to talk about my first home brew adventure, which I actually embarked upon last spring. We opted to make a brown ale that went by the name ‘Summer Stout’. It was an extract beer which I picked as our first quite by accident. In retrospect an extract beer was exactly the right… Read more »
What better day to start blogging about beer than on Stout Day? To celebrate the first day of the blog and Stout Day I’m enjoying a bottle of Thornbridge Winter Imperial Stout, which is an Imperial Russian Stout. ABV: 7.4% Starting with a hint of chocolate in the aroma the Winter Imperial Stout is a… Read more »
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