Milky lactic medium body becalms mocha residue with soft nuttiness. Unlike traditional stouts, not defined by arrogant roasted chocolate malts. Instead, fizzy soft-watered dark roast hop sear and unassuming cola-hazelnut illusions regale pleasant dry-fruited finish.
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(DARK HORSE) FORE SMOKED STOUT
Ink black stout pours like thick milkshake, increasing dark chocolate-y cocoa prominence as burnt-sugared molasses haunts deep recess. Faint smokiness brings out wood burnt-charcoal bitterness, oak-aged cherry dryness, and charred hop roast. Distant herbal notion finds daylight inside vanilla-toffee center, above bittersweet roasted coffee bottom.
RANDALL’S GUILTY LONDON STOUT
Between France and England lies Channel Islands, home of this efficient brown-hued ruby-highlighted dry body. Jaunty cappuccino uprising enjoins black chocolate bittering, burnt caramel mellifluence, and wispy whiskey waft, settling to coarse cherry puree finish. Licorice hints and sour-fruited spell surround secondary maltose sweetening in earthy midst.
(DE DOLLE) SPECIAL EXTRA EXPORT STOUT
Musky tan-headed mahogany-hued strong ale/Imperial Stout blend conveys syrupy dark chocolate-spiced expectancy to contrast highly hopped dark fruited souring. Dehydrated fig-banana-cherry conflux and coarse hazelnut lunge bedeck tranquil gingered cinnamon seasoning before dry port-sherry-bourbon finish picks up strong alcohol acridity.
RIDGEWAY LUMP OF COAL DARK HOLIDAY STOUT
Sadly, nebulous maroon-hued winter stout lacks expectant spicy seasonal intrigue and lusty mocha wanderlust, allowing witty Yuletide moniker to be more notable than muddled watered-down flavoring and diffuse charcoal aroma. ‘Dark Holiday’ seasonal claims to be “much more than you deserve for X-mas,” but thin roasted malting, dim chocolate-cocoa confection, concealed raisin-fig meekness, and dirty earthen whimper deaden impact. Understated hop-oiled cocoa-dried astringency blemishes dulled red-purple grape frolic, smothered pineapple-grapefruit slip, and cryptic anise snip.